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Gays have a media image as happy-go-lucky and carefree, but the reality is that it can be hard to be openly gay. Reconciling your desires with religious upbringings, negative reaction from friends and family, and socially sanctioned devaluation of our lives can produce an amount of internalized homophobia that requires a huge amount of energy [...]
One of the many absurdities gay people have to contend with is dealing with people who believe same-sex desires can be modified with a little heterosexual lovin’. A benign form of this is challenging gay people by asking if they’re sure and trying to find out if they have had heterosexual sex, as if sexuality [...]
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