Get Out! GAY Magazine – Issue 372 – June 20, 2018
Featuring content from the hottest gay and gay-friendly spots in New York, each (free!) issue of Get Out! highlights the bars, nightclubs, restaurants, spas and other businesses throughout NYC’s metropolitan area that the city’s gay population is interested in.
Featuring content from the hottest gay and gay-friendly spots in New York, each (free!) issue of Get Out! highlights the bars, nightclubs, restaurants, spas and other businesses throughout NYC’s metropolitan area that the city’s gay population is interested in.
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everyone stops teasing<br />
me for being feminine,<br />
but I’ll hurt the first<br />
person I’d ever trusted<br />
with my secret; 2. I don’t<br />
go out with the hot older<br />
cheerleader, and everyone<br />
teases me relentlessly,<br />
because now they’ll<br />
KNOW I’m gay; or 3. I take<br />
this as my opportunity to<br />
come out.<br />
Option 1 hurt Jenn the<br />
most. Option 2 hurt me<br />
the most. Option 3 would<br />
hurt us both, a little, but<br />
was the best choice<br />
to avoid casualties.<br />
So, I came<br />
out. A little<br />
embarrassed,<br />
Jenn supported<br />
me, helping<br />
me pick out<br />
a rainbow<br />
wristband at<br />
hot topic. This<br />
is how I told<br />
the world (or,<br />
rather, Knoxville<br />
High School, which<br />
I guess was my<br />
world then):<br />
“Listen up: You<br />
were all right.<br />
I’m Gay. Read<br />
my wrist, and<br />
don’t ask<br />
me about it<br />
again.”<br />
After coming<br />
out, all the<br />
straight boys<br />
stopped bullying<br />
me: What fun is<br />
it calling someone<br />
a fag when their<br />
response is “Guilty as<br />
charged”? But I faced a<br />
new bully: Jordan.<br />
Jordan was an out gay<br />
junior, one who’d never<br />
paid me any attention until<br />
I came out. Jordan was<br />
blonde, wore Abercrombie<br />
and Armani Exchange, and<br />
was popular. I’d looked up<br />
to him, honestly: Even in<br />
a small town, with enough<br />
confidence, a gay boy can<br />
be popular.<br />
But Jordan didn’t want to<br />
share the spotlight. One<br />
day, rainbow wristband<br />
intact, I found a letter<br />
slipped into my locker:<br />
“Listen up, I know you<br />
want to be me, but you’ll<br />
never be me. You’ll always<br />
just be a wannabe poser.<br />
I’m the top fag at Knoxville<br />
High School.
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