66 h. ago I thought it was being gay that made my life so difficult. Then, at 50, I got an eye

I spent far too many years lonely and angry, thanks to schoolmates who called me ‘weird’ and bosses who dismissed me as ‘hysterical’. But was it my sexuality that put their backs up – or the autism I am still coming to terms with?My earliest memory is of feeling different. I’m gay, and grew up in the 1980s, in a tough, working-class town in the north of England at the height of the Aids crisis. My gayness was obvious in the way I walked and talked. I was bullied at school, called a “poof”, “pansy” and “fairy”; other children did impressions of me with their wrists limp. I experienced physical violence, too. I was shoved, kicked, my head was slammed against the wall. I was punched in the face more than once.But it wasn’t just my sexuality that set me apart. I was “weird”. I had a rigid attachment to routine and was terribly shy, sometimes freezing in social situations. I needed to be on my own for long periods; not easy when you’re in a family of five and share a bedroom with your br...

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3 d. ago Edmund White remembered: ‘He was the patron saint of queer literature’

Colm Tóibín, Alan Hollinghurst, Adam Mars-Jones and more recall the high style and libidinous freedom of a writer who ‘was not a gateway to gay literature but a main destination’• Edmund White, novelist and great chronicler of gay life, dies aged 85 Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Edmund White, novelist and great chronicler of gay life, dies aged 85

The American essayist, playwright and author of books including A Boy’s Own Story and The Married Man has diedEdmund White, the American writer, playwright and essayist who attracted acclaim for his semi-autobiographical novels such as A Boy’s Own Story – and literally wrote the book on gay sex, with the pioneering The Joy of Gay Sex – has died aged 85.His death was confirmed to the Guardian by his agent, Bill Clegg, on Wednesday. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago He said he was Todd Chrisley's secret gay lover... then helped send him to jail. Here's what happened to him next

So what REALLY happened to the business associate who testified against Todd Chrisley and claimed in court they had a gay affair?

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9 d. ago Ryan Phillippe was discouraged from taking role of daytime TV’s first gay teen

‘Cruel Intentions’ star and ex-husband of Reese Witherspoon played gay teenager Billy on the soap opera ‘One Life to Live’

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1 week ago First openly gay NBA player Jason Collins marries partner of 10 years

Collins came out in a 2013 personal essay for ‘Sports Illustrated’

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2 w. ago Day my husband rang to tell me he was gay: We consummated the marriage but I ignored so many clues, says CHRISTA D'SOUZA. Then he admitted the charade

Hollywood's latest worst kept secret? That media mogul Barry Diller, married to Diane von Furstenberg for 24 years, is gay. We need to know the 'Lavender Marriage' is nothing to be ashamed of.

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2 w. ago The day my husband rang to tell me he was gay: I'd ignored so many clues, says CHRISTA D'SOUZA. But I was attracted to him... then he admitted the charade

Hollywood's latest worst kept secret? That media mogul Barry Diller, married to Diane von Furstenberg for 24 years, is gay. We need to know the 'Lavender Marriage' is nothing to be ashamed of.

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3 w. ago Fox billionaire Barry Diller reveals what it was like to finally come out publicly at 83

Barry Diller recently spoke about his upcoming memoir on ‘CBS Sunday Morning’

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4 w. ago Former NFL player Carl Nassib recalls conversation that inspired him to come out as gay

Nassib was the first active NFL player to come out as gay

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