Guys describe what no one told them about being gay
As the Friends theme song goes, so no one told you life was gonna be this way? Unfortunately for those of us on the homo side of the Kinsey scale, there’s no user manual for being gay, and our many of our life lessons are hard-earned.Users in Reddit’s r/askgaybros community recently listed the aspects of gay life no one told them and they didn’t expect.
And fair warning: Some of their revelations are hard to read, particularly the comments from those who feel isolated and alienated and even ostracized by fellow gays.Here are some of the responses, touched up for brevity and clarity:“That it could happen to me!”“It’s kind of dumb, but when I was a teenager, I thought when you came out, it was a one-and-done type deal.
Pretty quickly, I realized that you come out a bunch of different times to different people throughout your life. I guess I just didn’t realize it until I came out myself.”“How your life really starts to diverge from your heterosexual counterparts as you get older.”“That emotional availability is not the common trend for gays.”“All the holiday locations that were suddenly off limits.
Some were obvious, but I didn’t know that most of the Caribbean was hostile, for example.”Related: What exactly is the “gay agenda”?
