It’s tricky to feel like you’re part of the bisexual community if you’re not actually hanging out with any LGBTQ+ people. ‘A truly loving relationship should be a safe space within which to do this.’ Spend time in the LGBTQ+ community ‘It might be important to have the space to connect with the emotional aspects of your bisexual identity with your partner by opening up about it and what it means to you,’ says psychotherapist John-Paul. Simply acknowledging within your relationship that you are attracted to more than one gender can help you feel more whole and more known by your partner. If your partner doesn’t know that you’re bisexual, how would you feel about telling them? It doesn’t need to be a big deal or a serious sit-down conversation, so don’t worry if that freaks you out. It’s easy to ‘pass’ as straight when you’re bisexual and dating people of the opposite gender, but it can leave you feeling internally conflicted. ‘To be connected to your bisexual identity gives you access in life to all the power, creativity, energy, meaning, freedom to love and drive that’s contained in that part of you and that comes with complete self-expression and acceptance.’ Talk to your partner ‘Prolonged internal struggles are exhausting. ‘Of course it’s only an aspect of who you are, but if you believe you have to split off any fundamental part of yourself, to deny and hide it, it will take on far more importance than it ought to psychologically and often become self-destructive. Loneliness is often not about having too few people around you, but feeling unable to speak about the things that are important to you and sexual identity can be important. ‘These can include anxiety, depression, chronic anger and dependencies. Rashad has since revealed that his sexuality is fluid.‘Because sexual identity is such an intrinsic part of many of us, if we disconnect from it in relationship with ourselves and the people around us, we’re likely to experience emotional symptoms as a result,’ Counselling Directory member John-Paul Davies tells .uk.
Most recently, Isaiah Rashad was outed after someone leaked a sex tape of the TDE rapper with two men. In recent years, the hip-hop community has become more accepting of the LGBTQ community, as more artists have come out. "GAY PRIDE/ RAY PRIDE!! STR8 Ni✅✅as!! Need to show more LOVE TO MY GAY NI✅✅as!!! The time is NOW!!! ??," he captioned the post. He also shouts out all the gay people "that will knock a gay nigga or a straight nigga out if they was disrespecting humanity." But I know you gay and I told you that and I said, 'Now is the time to just come out and be you,'" he added.Īt times during the interview, it is hard to tell if Ray J is being facetious, as he gives hilarious commentary about going to a male strip club with a straight face. "Shout out to a couple of the homies that's still trying to act like they not gay. And I wanna make sure we all come together in unity and live life and not give a fuck and get money and ball out and everybody is good, right?"ĭuring the speech, the "Sexy Can I" artist even urged some of his friends to come out of the closet.
"For me, I wanna sponsor the whole Gay Pride Month and do Ray Pride," he continued. Ray J went on to say he wanted to support the month by sponsoring something he called "Ray Pride" concurrently.
I told my niggas that it need to be more straight niggas giving love to the gay niggas." "Shout out to everybody in the LGBTQ community. Shout out to all my gay niggas," he added. "I gotta do it, ’cause I wanna make sure that niggas is showing nothing but love and I fuck with y'all." "A lot of niggas that's straight, they don't be trying to shout out the gay community and all my gay niggas the right way," Ray J started.