Pressure to appear straight
1996
"When I was 24 I ended up having a
‘public relations’ girlfriend. Basically getting a gay woman friend I knew to
pretend to be my girlfriend which saddened me in a way because I thought this
was going backwards. She was bi, and subsequently is now straight. It became
difficult because people would ask 'How is she?' and I hadn't seen her for
months. I felt quite awful because that wasn't really me, lying”.
Contributed by: Derek, 35