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5 Tips to Overcome Your Loneliness as a Gay Man
Updated April 18, 2025
by Clinton Power, psychotherapist and Gay Therapy Center guest blogger
Unfortunately, struggling with feelings of loneliness and isolation is shared in the queer community despite the focus on like and relationships. Sometimes you might strife with making connections at all, and other times you may feel “alone in a crowded room” because it’s so hard to forge true connections.
Let’s explore how you can constructively deal with feelings of loneliness and split a life you’re excited to live!
Why do gay men get lonely?
Loneliness is, in some ways, part of the gay experience. The prevalence of loneliness was significantly higher among adults who identified as same-sex attracted (41.2%). Since everyone is assumed to be heterosexual, we all start out in the closet. The stress of not being out is emotional more than rational, but it takes its toll. Even before you came out to yourself, on some level you might have recognizable you couldn’t fulfill expectations of a heterosexual life. You may have grown up feeling alternative and separated from the majority.
After you’re out of the closet, things don’t necessarily improve right away
by Fred Penzel, PhD
This article was initially published in the Winter 2007 edition of the OCD Newsletter.
OCD, as we know, is largely about experiencing serious and unrelenting doubt. It can cause you to doubt even the most basic things about yourself – even your sexual orientation. A 1998 explore published in the Journal of Sex Research start that among a organization of 171 college students, 84% reported the occurrence of sexual intrusive thoughts (Byers, et al. 1998). In order to acquire doubts about one’s sexual identity, a sufferer necessitate not ever have had a homo- or heterosexual experience, or any type of sexual experience at all. I have observed this symptom in adolescent children, adolescents, and adults as well. Interestingly Swedo, et al., 1989, found that approximately 4% of children with OCD experience obsessions concerned with forbidden hostile or perverse sexual thoughts.
Although doubts about one’s retain sexual identity might sound pretty straightforward as a symptom, there are actually a number of variations. The most obvious develop is where a sufferer experiences the thought that they might be of a different sexual orientation than they formerly believed. If the su
Not By Choice: Unmarried Without Kids and The Truth About Life in the 'Otherhood'
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I had been blessed enough to find an empty seat at a table at a huge gathering of media folks at a restaurant on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, when the woman I’ll call “Lisa” began telling us how she got married—and by how I mean how she reached her target of getting married, not how she met her husband.
Little did I realize that “how-to-get-married” is Lisa’s competitive game of preference, and that I’d deliver her off to the races by way of introducing myself and what I do. I’m the founder of Savvy Auntie, a brand and insights company that focuses on childless women who like the children in their life. I’m single (never married), no children, though I had planned for and expected both.
Before I could order a glass of wine and collect up with the others at the table
“Are you gay?” my 12-year-old self asked, as if asking about the weather.
We had stopped in the deli section of a supermarket near my father’s home in metro Detroit to grab out some meat for a party. Dad must own said something, done something, that pricked my subconscious.
My father gave me a look of pure astonishment. “We’ll chat about it later,” he finally said.
The year was 2004, the month November, that dreary second when Michigan can’t decide whether to clothe itself with leaves or snow. We were both about to own a rough night.
I had never considered my father’s sexual orientation before. As a seventh grader, I was more concerned with university and acne and the cute lad in my English class. And Dad had always been a man’s gentleman. He once drove from Detroit to Chicago overnight to buy a 1966 Chevy Corvair that he named Veronica. He spent years rebuilding our residence, immersing himself in everything from electrical wiring to tile flooring. He dressed smartly but not fashionably, and his favorite store was Home Depot, which we visited multiple times a week.
So I had no basis to question the question I did. It was only six months since I’d even understood the synonyms “gay.” But somehow,
"I finally owned being a lesbian after being with the same man since the end of lofty school. Together for almost eight years, and three beautiful kids later. The last year or so of the relationship I knew who my accurate self was but I felt like I had already made this colossal decision to have a family — how could I just leave? I thought I was creature selfish to even examine it. I spent so many sleepless nights staring at my then-husband, mourning a life I didn’t have. In 2017, I fell hard for a woman I would never be with, but she helped me own who I am and I realized I was doing something I would never want my kids to do: force a bond or be untrue to themselves. I knew it was my time. I came out to my then-husband in our living room. We both cried. He told me he wanted me to be happy no matter what and he supported me. We cried some more, we sat together, and held each other for hours.
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