Gay men friends
Over the last few years developing quality gay friendships has weighed heavily on my mind. Meeting people organically, like at institution or work, is a thing of the past and much of the interaction that occurs with people of interest happens online or superficially in social settings.
We all know that friendship is a crucial aspect of human life, providing support, camaraderie, and shared experiences. While forming friendships is a universal endeavor, I’ve learned through personal experience that gay men often meet unique challenges in establishing connections with others in the community. It’s not easy to detect a genuine circle of friends with common interests and that invest the same amount of effort to help move the friendship forward.
The older I earn, the more I realize that there are very few “shoot your shot” moments where you have to put yourself out into the world physically and emotionally to intentionally connect with another person in hopes of developing a quality friendship. I focus specifically on other gay men or queer folks here because there is a sense of understan
By Karen Blair, Ph.D., and Trent University Students Laura Orchard and Bre O'Handley
“We fell into each other’s arms because of our similarities in our career and because of our age and because we like the identical sort of things.” This quote could quite likely be the beginning of a wonderful romance story, but instead, it is a quote about friendship delivered toThe Huffington Post by Sir Ian McKellen about his decade’s long friendship with Sir Patrick Stewart.
The two men first came to know each other adequately on the set of the first X-Men film in , and although the duo played adversaries on the silver screen, offscreen, they were developing a close friendship. On the put, the two men had adjoining trailers, where they spent more time getting to know each other than in front of the camera. By the terminate of filming, they had discovered how much they had in common, and to this diurnal, they share one of Hollywood’s most well-known friendships.
Both actors are often photographed together doing mundane things, such as walking a boardwalk while deep in conversation. Perhaps one of the reaso
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The community app for LGBTQ+ people. Make friends, find dates, join the movement
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An excellent beginning
I love the concept of the app and how it’s working so far. I feel like it can improve by allowing users to search for things instead of just people, like if I want to see posts on painting I’d like to be able to put that into the search bar and uncover them. As far as I’m aware, right now you can only search for user names of people you know, and hope that when you travel in the ‘search’ section it brings you what you wanna see based on the interests you selected.
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The obvious best part of this app is that it is being developed by and f
This post was co-authored by Elisha Sudlow-Poole, an International Exchange Scholar at St. Francis Xavier University.
Can men and women ever just be friends? A recent study published in Psychological Science has attempted to answer this question by exploring the differences in how friendships develop between women and men as a function of the man's sexualidentity. In other words, they examined how friendship development varies based on whether a straight girl is making friends with a gay man or a straight man.
Past research has shown that straight women and gay men form close relationships due to an apparent increased willingness to engage in intimate conversations1. Some have suggested that this may be because straight men and women are perceived as having less in common with each other compared to straight women and gay men2. This explanation, however, is based on the stereotypical assumptions about gay men and femininity. Consequently, researchers at the University of Texas explored an alternate potential explanation: Straight women may develop friendships with ga