Thinking About Homophobia And Redefining What It Means To Be A Man

Ryan Fan
5 min readDec 7, 2019
Photo by Juliette F on Unsplash

I don’t remember how it came up, but one day one of my friends asked me if I would be offended if someone thought I was gay, as a heterosexual man. I thought about it a bit, and then I had to be honest:

“Yeah, I’d be kind of offended.”

My friend took offense to that notion, and I was immediately on defense mode. I told her…

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Ryan Fan

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