Most people think of incels – or involuntarily celibate individuals – as heterosexual men who hate women because they won’t have sex with them.
But the movement is growing increasingly popular amongst the LGBT+ community. ‘I am ashamed to say that I’m a gay incel. For a long time I’ve felt deprived of getting the attention of men.
It has made me bitter and resentful towards them. ‘I don’t want to say that I’m shallow because I like a wide range of men as long as they’re masculine.
Maybe to some that sounds shallow. But I don’t care because it’s my life and I have a right to choose who I want to date or have sex with. ‘Why should I have to settle for less because I have a hard time finding a date?’ That’s what one frustrated gay incel wrote