There are some people out there who consider werewolfism to be a metaphor for puberty. If you think about it, during puberty the body changes, hair starts to grow in before unknown places, and the adolescent begins to feel all these heightened urges and emotions that were not there before. There are others who have made the connection between werewolves and homosexuality. Coming to terms with being gay is like puberty on steroids. Besides the fact that many LGBTQ+ folks begin to discover their sexuality at puberty, there are many common traits that the LGBTQ+ person has traditionally shared with the werewolf – though some of those traits are less pronounced as LGBTQ+ folks are becoming more accepted in society.
The werewolf is unique. He’s not like others. He’s different from even his own parents. Usually, the werewolf doesn’t know what’s going on when he first starts becoming a werewolf. He may be scared of what’s happening to himself. He may be angry or in denial about the process. He may try to repress this side of himself and try to be a “normal” human instead. He has to hide this part of himself or risk being pursued by ignorant and angry villagers. His own friends and family may be among them. He lives out a secret life and may seek out and find others like himself – others who are ostracized and who live the life of a normal human by day and something else by night.
Werewolves are usually male, though there are exceptions. In modern representations and even some older ones, many have trouble keeping relationships with women – either because of their savagery in wolf form or because they start to transform whenever they start to get intimate with a female. Maybe they’re excited, or perhaps some subconscious part of their psyche knows that their passions lie elsewhere. They rarely have these same problems around their male buddies. In some modern interpretations, werewolves are bisexual and polyamorous.