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[Yarazaro]

Well, i did have a hard time in highschool, but i didnt really come out until i was 22. I sometimes feel like attitudes have changed a lot but not as far as i would like.

[MikeW]

Well, i did have a hard time in highschool, but i didnt really come out until i was 22. I sometimes feel like attitudes have changed a lot but not as far as i would like.

It's impossible for me to imagine growing up more or less knowing there are other gay people. It's more complicated than I'm presenting it but basically that knowledge didn't 'click' in my head until I was 16 years old. Up to that time I hadn't given it much thought and no one ever talked about it (except boys calling one another names). It was like it didn't exist, or was so 'taboo' no one dared speak of it.