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‘Our pastoral experience over the years has demonstrated again and again that when a gay man marries, this is not only inappropriate for him, but this can absolutely destroy his wife.’ As a predominantly same-sex attracted man, Jeremy’s comment here is the kind of attitude I often encounter when people find out that I used to consider myself to be gay.
I am convinced that some people with same-sex attraction can and should fetch married (to someone of the opposite sex). But Jeremy and others are right to remind us of the profound injure that can be caused when someone ignores or refuses to be truthful about their true sexual feelings and enters into a marriage, hoping that they will become sexually attracted to their spouse after the wedding.
Some in the church hold colluded with this apply by not challenging it. Worse, others have directly encouraged it on the misguided assumption that a sexual relationship within marriage will clear up the person’s supposedly confused feelings, or even ‘cure’ them of their same-sex attraction!
The underlying problem in such cases is, ironically, that the Church has failed to value sexual desire properly.
'I'm a gay man but married a woman'
"Things couldn't have gone better with my wife that, you know, we still like each other and we're still together but it could have been so very different."
While the couple have stayed together, they no longer have a physical relationship and slumber separately.
Nick has promised his wife that he will never again include sex or a affair with a man - he says he owes it to her.
But can he stick to that promise? He says: "I'm hoping so, it's my intention to. It didn't feel like a choice in the past, it felt like it was enforced on me. I'm now making that choice that I would like to, in a sense, remain celibate."
Nick is a member of a support group called Homosexual Married Men, based in Manchester and founded 10 years ago. Men journey from around the nation to attend meetings.
Group founder John says most of the men are older - they married women in the 1970s and 80s when society was more hostile to homosexual people.
Now society is more tolerant, they are more comfortable with coming out as gay. But why did they become married in the first place?
Nick says many men who contact the websi
My name is Ken Henderson and I’m from Globe, Arizona.
I dated girls in high school, I noticed boys a lot but creature gay wasn’t something that really seemed an option to me at that point. So I grew up thinking, “Do what you’re supposed to do.”
And in college I met a really lovely, wonderful fresh woman. We ended up getting married, expecting that we would have kids and do what married people act. I was, I tried to be the good husband and who I should be.
Well I was in the Navy, I was stationed at the Naval Hospital at Oakland and there was a lot of gay people that were stationed there. I was around them, I knew they were gay, so I was friendly with some of them but I, I didn’t feel prefer that was me, I just felt like they’re not what I mind they were.
When I came back, Kathy was my wife’s name, had met a number of gay people she had become friends with who lived in the alike apartment complex. And she wanted to hang out with them. We started going out to gay bars and doing a rare things with them. It had sort of introduced me to that culture.
We had a swimming pool at our complex and we had been swimming and whatnot and we’d come support and we were hanging out in the room. Most
I’m a Straight Chick Who Married a Gay Man
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I met my husband 13 years ago, and we’ve been together ever since. We fell deeply, madly in love with each other and have been married for nine awesome years now. He’s patient, kind, gentle-hearted. He’s also always been honest about being gay and has never secret it from me. Only one of our mutual friends knows this about my husband. Our son also knows, since we reflection it would be best to stay open with him about it, so he never “found out” by surprise or from our mutual friend. Our son took the news very adequately and doesn’t nurture that his father was gay.
I’ve never told my family, or really any of my friends, as I consider they’d all be judgmental. My siblings don’t like my husband, but that’s a different letter in itself. So I’ve always kept it bottled up inside. He’s been married before, and div
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I’m at a crossroads. I don’t know which way to turn…
…It feels like I’m in midlife crisis with my sexuality.
If you are an older man coming to new terms with your homosexuality, it doesn’t matter whether you are living in Birmingham or Melbourne, Philadelphia, Singapore or anywhere else in between, you can discuss your concerns over the Internet with an experienced online counsellor and therapist who specialises in these issues.
Gay Life: Exploring New Worlds
In counselling appointments, when I meet with older lgbtq+ or bisexual men who are coming out, they sometimes describe their experiences of gay life as ‘being in another world’. But it strikes me that instead of one single gay culture, there are probably lots of different gay ‘worlds’ to explore.