Comments on: Warning ahead: homosexual landscape /opinion/warning-ahead-homosexual-landscape/68571 Setting Australia’s LGBTI agenda since 1979 Tue, 20 Mar 2012 10:00:36 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 By: Christopher Banks /opinion/warning-ahead-homosexual-landscape/68571#comment-99397 Tue, 20 Mar 2012 10:00:36 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=68571#comment-99397 When I first came out, I went nuts doing everything I thought a gay man should do. I started calling people sweetie, I dressed in odd clothes, I dyed my hair every imaginable colour, and I wore ridiculously tight t-shirts.

That was in my late teens and early twenties. It took until I turned 30 for my genuine self to emerge, and that was through encountering the bear community.

I wrote about this for Mental Health Awareness Week last year here:

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By: gerry north /opinion/warning-ahead-homosexual-landscape/68571#comment-91450 Fri, 30 Dec 2011 21:50:42 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=68571#comment-91450 Hi BWC obviously you are having a ball being gay and loving the time as a gay man. Not everyone has the same experience and gay teenagers are 10 times more likely to commit suicide than straight teenagers. Thanks for your comments and I hope readers will be inspired by your positive outlook.

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By: BWC /opinion/warning-ahead-homosexual-landscape/68571#comment-91326 Wed, 28 Dec 2011 04:19:22 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=68571#comment-91326 Oh boo-fucking-hoo! I’m sick of being told what a terrible time I’m having as a gay man. Being gay is awesome! You have an instant pass to the cool-kids club, you have the time and freedom that is the envy of all your straight mates, and you get to enjoy dick! Constant wallowing in maudlin self pity is the problem.

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