Gay guy and straight guy
By Karen Blair, Ph.D., and Trent University Students Laura Orchard and Bre O'Handley
“We fell into each other’s arms because of our similarities in our career and because of our age and because we like the matching sort of things.” This quote could quite likely be the beginning of a wonderful love affair story, but instead, it is a quote about friendship delivered toThe Huffington Post by Sir Ian McKellen about his decade’s long friendship with Sir Patrick Stewart.
The two men first came to know each other adequately on the set of the first X-Men film in , and although the duo played adversaries on the silver screen, offscreen, they were developing a close friendship. On the position, the two men had adjoining trailers, where they spent more time getting to know each other than in front of the camera. By the cease of filming, they had discovered how much they had in common, and to this morning, they share one of Hollywood’s most well-known friendships.
Both actors are often photographed together doing mundane things, such as walking a boardwalk while deep in conversation. Perhaps one of the reaso
Straight Males and Lgbtq+ Experimentation
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Quite simply, I’m wondering how common it is for self-identifying linear males to experiment with homosexuality. Sorry if this comes off as asking for TMI, or if it’s in the erroneous forum (seemed too "what’s your personal experience?) for GD.
Being gay and having gay friends, I learn a lot about 2 kinds of dealings with straight guys. The first is youthful experimentation, before the participants are fully aware or comfortable with their sexual orientation. I personally never had such experiences, I didn’t hold sexual contact with anyone until I was fairly mature and comfortable with my sexuality.
The other contact is the kind of thing you hear about more in erotic fiction or porn, which is the sleeping with the straight guy AFTER they’re both older and position in their sexual orientation. I’ve had friends speak about how they’ve “gotten with” straight guys just because the timing was right, a guy was horny or what possess you. Again, I recognize nothing of the sort, and always considered direct guys to be completely unattainable.
I recently finished reading Dr. Robert Garfield’s terrific new novel, Breaking the Male Code: Unlocking the Power of Friendship, and last week participated in a joint interview with him by Dr. Dan Gottlieb on WHYY (National Widespread Radio) in Philadelphia. This all got me thinking about my own friendships and those of my gay male clients. The bonds between gay men and straight women have been written about and featured in popular media (i.e. Sex in the City, Will and Grace), though a lot less has been said about how male lover and straight men recognize and negotiate the distinct challenges, complications, and rewards of their friendships.
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According to Garfield, among the many obstacles to male-male platonic intimacy, hesitate of homosexuality looms large. Straight men fret that if they get too close, others will see them as gay; which in their minds means feminine (horrors!), fragile, and perverted. Perhaps even scarier is that their feeling connections will somehow morph into sexual attraction. Interestingly, in the U.S., before there was such a thing as a gay identit
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I have a similar situation with my connection. My boyfriends gay ally is inLove with him and he doesn&#;t comprehend that. there is so many things that form me realize that.
1 they see each other once a week to slurp in a bar, when they do and receive drunk, my boyfriends homosexual friend starts complementing him in front of me , like his handsome, touching his arm ( in a way that makes me uncomfortable), looking him with this in love eyes. start making inappropriate joke
2 he had a picture of a naked guy that looks like my boyfriend and even he shows the pictures to everybody. and he start saying DOESNT HE LOOK LIKE HIM???
3 he told my crush that he heard that i was dating one of his friends a couple of times( guy that I don&#;t even know). obviously lies.. don&#;t know what was exactly his intention.
4 he invited my boyfriend first to an island and a week after he mentioned and then he invited me .. ( last minute) obiously my lover didn&#;t