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  1. Gender & Sexuality
  2. Sexuality

Sexuality

What is sexuality?

Understanding sexuality and sexual orientation Read more

Published: 3rd October, 2016

Updated: 26th February, 2019

Author: Ian Howley

Comments: 1

Related topics:
  • lgbt
  • being lgbt
  • sexuality
  • coming out
  • Sexuality

A-Z of sexual orientation

The FS crash course to sexual orientation. Read more

Published: 3rd October, 2016

Updated: 26th February, 2019

Author: Ian Howley

Related topics:
  • lgbt
  • gender
  • sexuality
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How to come out

Are you ready to come out? Read more

Published: 3rd October, 2016

Updated: 11th October, 2019

Author: Ian Howley

Comments: 4

Related topics:
  • trans
  • lgbt
  • lesbian
  • sexuality
  • gay
  • coming out
  • bisexual
  • Coming Out
  • Sexuality

The BIG young and gay rule book

If you’re under 25 like me, you’ve had the enormous luck of growing up in the best ever era in which to be a gay man. Marriage is all of a sudden a possibility, even if we are just awkwardly navigating our first relationships. Will and Grace and Queer as Folk were already mainstream hits by the time we were still in diapers. Every day in the news it seems that another celebrity comes out of the closet, and is embraced by the public. Read more

Published: 3rd June, 2015

Updated: 26th February, 2019

Author: Ian Howley

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  • young gay
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