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Age 11 — Grandpa Turned Me Gay

The innocent allure of International Male magazine

Joe Guay - Dispatches From the Guay Life!
Human Parts
Published in
5 min readJan 29, 2024

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Black and white photo of a handsome man with a white shirt open at the top
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I was only 11, sitting on grandpa’s front porch when the mail arrived. After sifting and sorting, he approached me with a magazine from the stack.

“More junk mail. I’m not sure why this came, do you want it?”

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Joe Guay - Dispatches From the Guay Life!
Human Parts

Joe Guay, a recovering people-pleaser, is an essayist, actor/voiceover guy with musings on mental health, LGBTQ, humor and travel & nature as church