Married gay

Popping the question

In what way could you ask each other to marry? What is that going to mean for me?”

Dale dove into queer media to help with not just answers, but general exposure to the greater LGBTQ+ community.

A year into their journeys, Shelly asked Dale to read a story from someone online about a mixed-orientation marriage where the wife gave the man permission to seek a boyfriend.

“She said, ‘I want that for us and you,’” Dale recalled.

Five years later, their home is decorated with gifts from a new addition to their family: Dale’s boyfriend.

A new addition

When Shelly first heard from Dale that he was ready to see someone a year after he came out, Shelly said she was happy, but she took it harder than she expected.

He felt responsible for everyone else’s feelings, and ignored his own needs in doing so. How should they relate?

Are you fully aligned with each other on what you want and what you can create for your wedding? If he filled himself up with “more positive things, it would go away.” At the time, he believed he was in a “righteous struggle” that he would overcome if he prayed hard enough and sought counseling.

He became a Methodist pastor, and he recalled feeling like he was on the outside looking in on “the male club.” He did not see it as sexual attraction as much as it was a desire for “bonding and friendship.”

Dale wasn’t quiet about his feelings to Shelly.

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He tries to convince you that all relationships have a decline in sex even when you've only been together for a few years.
He is turned-off by normal sexual activity and accuses you of being oversexed, aggressive, or a nymphomaniac when you have normal sexual needs.
His sexual performance is more mechanical than passionate with a lack of satisfying foreplay.
He claims he is "depressed" and will blame his depression or medication for depression for his lack of sexual desire for you.
You find sexual enhancers such as Viagra (sildenafil citrate) or Cialis (Tadalafil) hidden in his private hiding places, but you know he hasn't made any attempt to have sex with you.
He tells you that he wants you to use sex toys on him because he needs his prostate stimulated or because he likes kinky sex.
He erases the computer history on a regular basis.
You find pop-ups of gay pornography on the computer while he claims they are not his.
He spends excessive time texting people at irregular hours.
He starts to spend more time at the gym and works on changing his appearance.
He claims that he feels "trapped" in the marriage and won't explain why.
He travels a lot for business and you can't track his activities.
He says he is having a "mid-life crisis" and becomes moody and depressed.
He tells you about sexual abuse in his childhood/adolescence.
He admits to having a homosexual encounter in the past.
He uses the word "bisexual."
He visits gay bars claiming he's there only to hang out with his gay friend(s).
He watches porno movies with gay male scenes.
He makes continual homophobic comments or he makes too many gay comments in conversations.
His ego appears to be boosted by compliments from gay men.
These signs a husband is gay are not meant to be definitive.

They can enter these relationships because they might feel like that’s expected of them. Lavender marriages fall under that category, but most often they take the form of a bisexual cisgender woman marrying a straight cis man. Retrieved on 2025, December 29 from https://www.healthyplace.com/gender/gay/is-my-husband-gay-signs-of-a-gay-husband

Last Updated: May 20, 2019

LGBTQ+ people have historically challenged relationship structures, whether through lavender marriages – wherein gay men and women marry each other to appeal to heteronormative standards but otherwise date separately – or polyamory.

There’s another often stigmatized relationship structure that was famously featured in the 2005 film Brokeback Mountain: gay men married to straight wives.

Relationships where those involved do not have the same sexual orientation are called mixed-orientation relationships, said Allen Mallory, assistant professor of human development at The Ohio State University.

Behind the two of them was a wall decoration with the words, “Better Together” – a gift from Dale’s boyfriend.

But ever since Dale was a child, he recalled feeling like something was different about him. Which elements felt like you?

They can also lack exposure to a queer community and not realize that there are other options, or they can feel like a gay relationship is too stigmatized.

“They ultimately choose to be in these other relationships that are heteronormative in appearance,” Fuller said. Dale would talk about being “intrigued by the male body.”

But Dale’s world was flipped upside down the night he sat down to watch the movie, “Love, Simon.” By the end of the movie, he was in tears.

“This is not a struggle I’ve been trying to overcome for 55 years,” Dale said.

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