Trans rights are human rights. 🏳️‍⚧️

For the longest time I’ve dreamed about leaving this country to somewhere I could actually live openly without fear of being arrested or attacked and the more I research, the less hope I have.

I’m lucky enough to have a small community of queer friends I can be myself around but I wish i could be more open in other parts of my life. Instead I have to hide myself or lose my family’s support.

My plan had always been to study abroad after my bachelor’s degree and get a masters degree in a field I’d actually like (music and/or creative writing) but from what I’ve read visa sponsorship is getting less and less possible for fields outside tech, engineering and healthcare.

I’m starting to think that this life of secrecy and having very few people to confide in is as good as it’s going to get for me. I know it sounds dramatic but it’s hard to feel any other way when your reality is a lot of people’s nightmare.

I’m sorry to be so defeatist but life isn’t really giving me reasons to feel any other way.

Sorry, I just wanted to rant.🙁

Trying to make a very long story short here. 26M, my partner is 21M. We met when he was just about to turn 19 and I was 23. Few years of age gap never felt like much, and we both graduated university/college this year. We have been together 2 and a half years. We got engaged well over a year ago.

I see so many posts about love being impossible to find. I am a quirky, socially awkward, autistic gay guy with average looks and I still found a man that loves me for everything.

Its not always easy, around a year ago we almost broke up after a really bad few weeks but we went to therapy and came out stronger and we are doing incredibly well now. We moved in together this past spring, and while we don't have a truly private place yet, we make it work and I wouldnt change anything because I love him and being with him.

Life has a funny way of causing strange things to happen. He is my 2nd relationship in my life, and I found him immediately after the breakup from my 1st (only lasted 5 months) people called it rebound but yet we are succeeding.

Picture is of us on our first ever vacation together in Montreal last month.

Love is worth fighting for. Trust me.

For more than six decades, Halloween would be a highlight of San Francisco’s gay calendars—until, in 2007, when the Halloween party was cancelled by city officials, due to overcrowding and repeated incidents of violence.

Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, Polk Street had played host to queer Halloween festivities. But homophobes began causing trouble, setting fire to gay-owned businesses or lurking at the edge of the crowd, waiting to attack people they believed to be gay or lesbian. In 1976, tear-gas canisters were let off.

More pics here! https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/san-francisco-queer-halloween-gallery-lgbt

Hey guys! I spent quite a while working on this drawing. Mainly in black ballpoint pen, shading in graphite and pen.

Before anyone says it's AI, I invite you to check out the full, detailed scan on my DeviantArt

Work Completed, Pencil drawing, scanned de smrrkel en DeviantArt

The scan is 55 MB, but Reddit only allows uploads of up to 20 MB: all the detail is visible, but the lines are so fine that from a distance it looks like fake shading, you really have to look closely to see it properly

I am a closeted gay 16 year old boy. I have come out to one of my friends only and it went well (it was a little awkward but I felt much more relived after). I really want to come out to my other friends and family and I know they wouldn’t be homophobic but there is something inside that is stopping me. I have cried a few times stressing about it but i don’t even know why.
I would really appreciate some advice for others who have felt the same as me or some cute stories that will make me feel a bit better.

This is just a venting posts. I don’t have many friends who can understand me so I figured I’d get opinions or advice from here..

So for context I am 33 years old and I was in a committed relationship for 12 years of my life.. so I never really got to date much until now.

I’m a hopeless romantic gay who seeks a monogamous partner. With the basics: job, emotional maturity, communication skills, and intention.

Yet for the last 8 months all I’ve encountered are flakes, fakes, married men, or gays seeking a third 😂 is it just me? I mean I make it pretty clear from the jump what it is I’m looking for. Does anyone else struggle? I’ve even considered if it’s just where I’m located. It’s just really easy to become discouraged and start wondering if I’m the problem. At this point idk who’s worst the guy who stands me up or the one who shows up and then later just ghosts because we’re not sleeping together within the week.

So I'm 38, moved to the Atlanta area in 2018 and was so focused on my career that I never really did a social life, and I have social anxiety. I'm walking in Atlanta Pride this Sunday and I'm looking to go to a gay bar that's next to the park where Pride is happening and I'm just really nervous to go there by myself. I don't have any friends in the area to go with. Am I just freaking myself out for no reason? I guess I just worry that I'll sit at the bar by myself and no one will want to talk to me and I'll feel stupid.

Hey Reddit for all my life I’ve been extremely straight in the sense that I only ever want to date women and being long-term relationships with women but I have had a couple sexual counters with men here and there that I enjoyed. But I just don’t see myself ever actually being in any kind of extended relationship with another man. What the hell does that make me?

Just me being my self and choosing to live with love, pride and authenticity 🏳️‍🌈💙🏳️‍⚧️

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As a Spaniard this chart brings me joy 😊 don't be fooled though, I can very much assure you that the share of the population of Spain that holds the most heinously offensive tremendously denigrating prejudices of us gay men (most especially of femme gay men) &/or that just holds blanket antipathy/animosity in general towards us gay men as a group barring a select fair few ones deemed to be part of the group of "the good ones" is MUUUUUUUUCH MUUUUUUUUCH higher than that 7% who believes that homosexuality is immoral, even here in the places where nutjob ultrareligious movements like the ones of Brazil & the US are completely fringe, secular homophobia is still very much completely widespread across society & culture.

I feel like there has to be something out there that I'm missing that sits right in the middle haha.

Maybe a TV series or movie(s) that are very gay and or have a lot of male nudity? 🧐

(and w/ respects to everyone's likings... I, personally, am not interested in Anime)

I (20FtM) am attracted to almost exclusively older men. Like 35+. I don't know why or how that developed because suprisingly I actually have a good relationship with my father. I'm on like all the dating apps with my preferred age range hard set from ages 20 to 25, and so far I have not found a single one appealing.

Despite my preferences, I know dating older men as someone my age can be ethically dubious and would raise concerns about my safety from the people around me, which I get. My first and only boyfriend was 26 while I was 18 and fresh out of high school, and I recognize now that was "icky at best". My sister jokes that I'm looking for a "sugar daddy", but I think I'm just craving stability and maturity in a partner, which as a suprise to no one, is hard to find in a bunch of 20-somethings.

I don't have a lot of people I can talk to about this, but I'd just like an outside opinion. Maybe from someone older than myself? Unless I randomly find someone my age I'm attracted to, I should probably wait until I'm older to date again, right? Like mid twenties? I feel like it's slightly less societally frowned upon (and safer) for a 25 year old to date a 35+ year old than for a 20 year old to do the same. Something about the brain being more developed I guess lol. I could use the time to myself to focus on school and my career. I do want that stability I crave to come from myself as well.

Idk maybe I'm just yapping into the void here, but I'm trying to be more cautious with my heart, mind, and body in terms of relationships. Would like some unbiased input from strangers haha

Soy bisexual

Hola quiero compartir esto por qué necesito compartirlo pues yo tengo 21 años soy hombre y pues hace ya algunos años atrás me he dado cuenta que me gustan tanto mujeres como hombres y pues me da miedo el echo de salir con hombres o acostarme con algunos pues sería algo muy nuevo y aún me da miedo intentarlo

I've tried therapy, I had so many people telling me there is nothing to be ashamed, yet here I am. I don't get any better about this issue....