As a gay man, you may be surprised to hear that one of the biggest hurdles I faced was going into a gay bar for the first time.
At years-old, I was in awe of my straight mates. They&#;d been wandering into bars and nightclubs for the last year with the only threat of getting asked for age identification.
At 17 years aged, my straight mates were not only getting drunk most Friday and Saturday nights but were boasting about sleeping around with members of the reverse sex without any concern. Whether they&#;d slept with many of those they mentioned was open to debate.
At 17 years mature , it was against the law for me to sleep with a person of the same sex. If I boasted about it, I could obtain myself into trouble. The law stated that, for my safety, sex remained on hold until I reached
Of course, I overlooked that particular part of the law. Favor any red-blooded male at 17, my hormones made my brain think of little else but wanting to (putting it mildly) get laid.
By the occasion I reached my 19th birthday, I already had what I had considered a boyfriend. He was over the age of 21 and
March
&#;Do you play rugby?&#;
That was the first interrogate I was asked at my first-ever interview for a full-time job.
&#;And what about girlfriends? How many do you have?&#;
That second question was just as easy to answer as the first. Yes, I had lots of girlfriends, but probably not in the way my future handsome boss was asking.
But worse was to enter.
Two weeks later, I started my job as an office junior and settled in quickly, but I had to mask the fact that I was gay.
I did everything I could to stand in the closet. I had to make sure nobody suspected. I even made jokes about rugby balls being bent to the office manager, a strange-looking man who was years ahead of entity one of the professors from Harry Potter. I felt ashamed of myself, but it was something I thought I had to do to safeguard who I was.
But, worse still, I made these jokes in front of a colleague who everyone in the office (apart from me at the time) suspected was male lover. Nobody wanted to refer the elephant in the room.
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When we were growing up there were few (if any) homosexual love stories around for us to be exposed to, whether in real life, on TV, or anywhere else in the media.
We would have absolutely loved to have been able to learn that gay love stories do exist and that male lover relationships and gay romance could be real, true and loving.
That’s why in this blog upload we wanted to share some real-life gay love stories from some of our followers on Instagram in the hope that we can spread the note that love really is for all. [no_toc]
Real Life Gay Affectionate Stories
Branden and Stephen
Our first male lover love story is from Branden and Stephen:
‘It was , Branden was in the closet, looking to find a relationship on an online dating site; Stephen, also seeking a relationship replied.
We talked online for several days, then we finally made the leap to meet in person.
Our first date was at a local brewery where we talked for hours and played pool. We hit it off immediately, both growing up in the rural parts of Alberta and this being our first queer relationship, we had so much in comm