Acespec development infers growing without a qualifier: not growing sideways or growing into anything in particular, but just growing—directionless and aimless by societal standards perhaps, but growing still, in unexpected ways.
All in Vol 5 Iss 4
comparing myself to other gays
comparing myself to other gays
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fortunately, this is rarely an issue with my gay friends since i'm clear about my boundaries. i do feel like an outcast at times, though.
Touch and Go
So for now, I’ll walk that tightrope of compromise, walk, and fall and fall again until I have my footing.
Asexual/Aromantic Concerns, Gay Spaces: Anti-Amatonormativity and the United Kingdom Gay Liberation Front
This shows that amatonormativity is not only a concern of theorists, or of modern-day asexual and aromantic activists; instead, it has been a thread through gay liberation from the roots of the movement.
LESBIANS IN THE KITCHEN
but the issue is really that none / of those poems have / you
lavender, spearmint, and herb garden
and although everyone else there says it’s fine, / i still insist that i haven’t quite gotten the color right.
There’s something about David and Jonathan
But what if both perspectives meet somewhere in the middle? What if they weren’t straight, and what if they weren’t gay? What if they were homoromantic, even asexual?
To You, From 2019
I can finally say, I am much healthier and happier without her. From 2022 until some day, I have someone who understands the Asexual experience, and loves me.
Sleepy Love Poem
undressing, your back / an unmade bed
Romanticizing Asexual Identities: Deconstructing Aromance while indulging-in versus refuting sex encounters through Art and Yoga
Effeminate gays and masculine lesbians struggle through societal expectations onto them. They are unable to even satisfy internal desires of being nurturing versus providing, being homemakers versus breadwinners, in a constant conflict with their inner being.