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Perhaps this disbelief led me to exclusively date older men by my late 20s. In my gay ‘teenage’, I lacked real belief in my performance as the Nerd, reinforced by a lack of faith that I possessed the less-feminine, authentic masculinity of the athletic or artistic gay the ones I admired. Identity is formed and strengthened when one believes that performance to be a true depiction of who you are. The men my age I dated just after arriving in London while initially attracted to me physically, came to view me as intellectually mature but sexually naive. I performed confident, intellectual sensibility Nerd but this proved less sexy when coupled with an apparent uncomfortable in-habitation of certain sex roles and a broader confusion of what sex role I most desired. Young men work hard to hide what they don’t know and I was no exception.
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The problem with performance authentic or otherwise is the ability or inability as it was in my case, to sustain the charade. While I could perform a (less than) convincing homo thug, athletic gay or artistic gay eventually the younger men I was meeting saw the Nerd a measured sensible maturity with a slightly feminine disposition, one compounded when intoxicated.
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Although I was never completely comfortable with my performance of this sexual role I had plenty of popular material from which to draw that ensured a level of authentic accuracy! Less homo thug but still carrying the ‘shame’ of being identified as a feminine gay man I inhabited the role of athletic gay and in the process of becoming a professional academic described myself as a writer inhabiting and performing artistic creative gay. The popular narrative affords Black gay men less flexibility and fluidity in this area and at times I played to stereotype and performed homo thug to meet the expectations of men I desired. While their bodies turned me on fleetingly, the aesthetic could not sustain my desire.Īt that stage I hadn’t fully come to terms with my actual sex role give or take crudely. I wanted to be them the athletic gay boy the gay boy who skated or the gay boy who created art. They carried themselves in a manner I envied. My attractions were a projection of my sexual aspirations. I wanted to appear straight and this shaped my desire for conventional and stereotypical masculine types the athletic homo thug and the creative sexy artist who didn’t act too gay. I also carried the label of Nerd but I lacked confidence that Nerds were attractive or desired among gay men in London. In those early gay years, even with the sexual freedom I felt when I first arrived in London I carried shame in being identified as gay across the deep waters of the Atlantic. Ironically when I came into my adolescent stride and carried myself with a certain confidence in my Nerdy academic articulation and disposition I became more attractive to girls and eventually I lost my virginity.
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Despite an increased comfort and confidence in who I was as a gay man I didn’t know what my identity meant for my sexual relationships.īefore I fully accepted my sexuality identity perhaps during those years when I still struggled to even fully acknowledge my sexual and intimate desire and specifically within the context of my engagement with my Chicago Black community, I came to be accepted as the Nerd or the Smart one (which was actually code for gay) not an athlete not hip hop and certainly, not a thug or a gangsta. In those early gay years, I was trying to get into my stride or my mince as it was at times. My gay age starts my gay birth if you will from when I began to accept my sexual identity more deeply when I began a more complex negotiation and linkage of what I desired sexually and my role in society. Coming to terms with my sexual identity as gay meant engaging with queer spaces and developing a network of gay friends and eventually lovers. Identifying as bisexual was part of my process of accepting my desire for the intimacy of men more than that of women. I called myself bisexual until my mid 20s owing to a discomfort with being gay and not only a discomfort in my desire for men more than women. I was born this way, but I didn’t always know it.