The Second Closet with Juan Galan

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• The Grief Nobody Let You Have at the Funeral

  October 20, 2026 · 8 min

  After the grief post went up, one man left a comment I haven't been able to stop thinking about. He said I'd left out the biggest grief of all, the AIDS years, and that men of his generation have been carrying a grief the size of a planet…

• The Grief Nobody Let You Call Grief

  October 13, 2026 · 13 min

  Most of us don't walk around thinking we're grieving. We think we're tired. We call it burnout, or a bit of depression, or we decide we're just someone who runs a little low, while the job's fine, the friends are there, and there's still a…

• Why Gay Dating Is Harder, and Why You Keep Picking The Same Man Anyway

  October 7, 2026 · 11 min

  Dating as a gay man really is harder, and I want you to hear me say that before anything else. The pool is small, the apps have trained us to reject, racism and ageism are all over the scene, and a whole generation of men who could have…

• Why The Guys On Grindr For Sex Are Happier Than The Ones Looking For Love

  October 6, 2026 · 17 min

  It's late, you're in bed, there's nothing left in the day that needs you, and your hand goes to your phone. Most of the time you're not even horny. You open Grindr anyway, scroll past the same men you saw last night, and you already know…

• I Came Out Of The Closet And Walked Straight Into A Second One

  October 5, 2026 · 24 min

  When I came out, I thought the hard part was over. I'd finally said the true sentence, I could love who I wanted, and for a while that felt like freedom. It took me fifteen years to see that I'd walked out of one closet and straight into…

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