The Smiths: Reel Around The Fountain The Smiths: These Things Take Time Belle and Sebastian: Lazy Line Painter Jane
+1 Sonic Youth is low-key queer af.
Some background: I came out as gay in my early 20's (I'm 47 now), then was like, wait, no, that's not right, I'm bisexual. After repressing my...
I'm right there with you. My ex-wife is an extrovert. I think one of the major personality conflicts in our marriage was my feeling worn down and...
I've had a number of situations over the years where I only realized much later that I was being hit on; I was totally oblivious to it. At least a...
Yes, exactly -- I don't have a lot of practice in setting boundaries, at least not in this type of scenario.
Yeah, I'm seriously not used to that kind of scenario -- I'd been to another gay bar locally for karaoke, but with friends, and it seemed much...
So I went to a local bear bar last night for karaoke. Sadly, there wasn't much in the way of seating, so I sat in the back along the wall until a...
Boom. You hit the nail right on the head. (I mean, at least for me.)
It had taken me very nearly 25 years to go from outing myself aa first gay, then bi, then waswas marr for the better part of 20 years and more or...
How about St. Vincent? Annie Clark is an amazing songwriter and one of the best guitar players in the business. Also, Amanda Palmer.
I'm not sure that the "gay guy with mostly female friends" stereotype is because of attraction to men getting in the way. It's not like we want to...
There's a lot more diversity in the gay community than the stereotypes would have you think -- and if you think about it, there's an awful lot of...
From my own experience... I came out as gay first in my early 20's, then very shortly thereafter as bi... and stayed with that label for nearly 25...
Whatever works -- some bi folks use "bi" with some and "queer" with others, as you know. If you want to use "gay" to mean "not-heterosexual,"...
It's literally better late than never! Go you!!
Yes, a thousand times this. @alex21 -- I totally relate to where you're coming from. I'm in a similar place; I'm not attracted to any one...
Mine did not, but that had less to do with my being (I believed at the time) bisexual than it did just with us both having a lot of issues to work...
Here's some starters: https://www.rainn.org/articles/tips-talking-survivors-sexual-assault
Oh, I've been there. I still wonder about this sometimes. I'm basically at the point where "gay" is just a useful adjective for lack of a better...
