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Tag: bisexual

Call Me By Your Name: Coming Out with Courage

Who doesn’t want, at least once in life, the experience of falling in love? But how do we find the courage to take steps into the unknown, perhaps risking rejection, so that our love might be acknowledged and possibly reciprocated?

January 16, 2018
Fear of HIV: Counselling for Gay Men

I’m so worried about HIV I can’t enjoy sex… … every time I say ‘that’s the last time I bareback’, but then I do it again… …I’m thinking about going on PrEP.

February 12, 2016
Journey Out of Shame: 4 Factors Influencing Transition into Gay Life

You can’t live anyone else’s life, just your own. So you have to keep giving yourself what you need on your journey and transition into gay life.

December 30, 2015
Coming Out to Parents and Family and Coming In to Homosocial Culture

When you see the words ‘Coming Out’, what do you think about? These days it usually refers to coming out of the closet, an expression that has been around since the early 1970s suggesting an alternative to isolation, invisibility and shame at having something to hide for those who don’t fit the ‘norms’ of heterosexuality.…

July 2, 2014
Coming Out as Bisexual: Extraordinary and Ordinary Stories of Bisexuality

How do I come out as bisexual? We don’t hear the answers to that question so much, because most of what is written about coming out is from the perspective of coming out as gay. What does it mean to be bisexual? And how does a man start identifying as bi? I wanted to write…

June 12, 2014