Fashion🚫Sexuality

Hey guys👋🏾I’m back with another post that is a very serious topic to me.

All of us in the twitterverse have seen these “first of all” tweets that have been going around and they have had me cracking up😂But yesterday I made this tweet and the topic has really been on my mind as of late. Being a fashionable male has its perks but also has cons. One of them is constantly being labeled or thought of as gay. Now I have nothing against the gay community but I do not identify as a gay man. Since I do tend to dress nice or more fashionable, I have often been thought of as gay. I have never not once questioned my sexuality. I have always known that I was straight. There is this stigma about males who dress nice that they are automatically considered gay. Especially males in the arts. I have heard countless times in my teenage life “I thought you were gay when I first met you” just because of the way I dress. My fashion choices are because of the way that  I want to present myself not because  I am attracted to males. I once thought about changing the way I dress. Trading in my fedoras for snapbacks and my button downs for Nike t shirts and my jeans for sweatpants but then I remembered why I dress the way I do which is to try and stand out from the rest. I am very confident in my masculinity and my sexuality(my girlfriend of almost 2 years can atest to that😉) So always remember to not let anyone else’s definition set the tone for how you define yourself.