![]() They take with them that cage they drag wherever they go. These holidays, these men will drive a wife and kids to vacation. They are lonely to the extent that they have no clue where the lies end and the truth begins. The web of lies they weave trap those who they are in relationships with the lies serving as a shield to cover up the truth that is their loneliness. These men trade in their power for a safe place in the nest of a heterosexual society. These men may sit at the head of the dinner table and be perched high in patriarchy, but they know loneliness too well. Gay men who give in to external pressure to assume a heterosexual identity also simultaneously give permission to society to cage them. That process of integration teaches gay men to willingly assume traditional masculine behaviour patterns so as to gain some sense of belonging. Isay writes that many gay men are forcibly integrated into the heterosexual community. ![]() We are either caged by external circumstances into loneliness, or we cage ourselves through bad choices.
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