Hey Gay Boy
James Wallis"Hey Gay Boy" is a Substack for the gay man who’s tired of carrying shame and ready to heal, grow, and thrive. This is your safe space for honest conversations about identity, self-worth, and living authentically.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 78 | Founded | a year ago | Last Issue | 4 days ago |
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The First Time Someone Asked If I Was Gay
What that one question taught me about shame, before I understood it.
I must have been about fourteen. Well, that’s what I think anyway.
Why Do So Many Gay Men Love Their Friends So Much?
For a lot of gay men, your closest friendships are the great love story of your life.
They’re the people who’ve held your life together and we never really talk about friendship in those terms.
We celebrate weddings. We write songs about...
Maybe You’ve Outgrown Yourself
I’ve spent a lot of my life trying to work out who I am.
For a long time, that question was always tangled up with being gay. First there were the years when I knew something about me was different but didn’t really understand what. Then c...
I Can Trace My Gay Shame Back to When I Was Seven
I thought I was writing about school. Six years later, I realised I’d documented the beginning of my gay shame.
My Notes app is mostly a graveyard of things I never published. I have about 2,500 notes in there, full of half-formed thoughts...
The Gay Future We Never Got to See
Why so many of us struggle to picture ourselves growing old.
I tried to imagine myself at sixty the other day.
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