On this subject I have to go from personal knowledge I have gained through life experience. I have a few gay friends, whom taught me some great lessons about life. When I was younger I struggled with my sexuality, I never really experimented, but definitely questioned my feelings and emotions. I am sure that the copious amount of drugs and alcohol that I abused didn’t help my case any. The fact that I was molested by a neighbor boy when I was in the second grade did not help my case either. I also struggled with many of the stereotypes and opinions of what is considered masculine, such as football, being a logger, not showing emotion, not crying, and what is stereotypically feminine, such as being artistic, liking to shop, or sew, showing emotion, writing poetry. During a time of self discovering I was talking with a gay friend of mine about these things (he is a logger). What I came away from that conversation with is this; It does not matter what your interests are, the only thing that determines whether your heterosexual or homosexual is if you have sexual relations with the same sex.
On a side note another good friend of mine who is gay taught me by example, that it is ok to be who I am and that I do not need to be ashamed of who I am. I realized if this guy, who has obviously struggled with severe discrimination is ok with who he is, why shouldn’t I be ok with who I am.
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