Coming out.

>Pardon me, but how on Earth can you know either way if you're gay or
>straight or whatever at *thirteen*?? I wouldn't've thought anyone under
>15---and that's pushing it---would be gay or straight or whatever.
>(Perhaps even, how on earth could you know either way till you've had
>slices of both cakes?, but I guess you can make assumptions you feel are
>good enough.
I initially had the same knee-jerk reaction when I read his assertion that
he was gay at 13. "How could he know at 13?"

But I know that I knew from the time I was 5 that I prefered to be around
men, though I had no name to attach to the feelings, and never acted on them
until I was 18.

Unlike Jake, I my parents were never supportive of me if I wanted to do
anything which fell outside their conservative ideas of what was "normal" -
e.g. I wasn't allowed to learn to play the piano. In a way their consevative
attititude helped me - since they did their best to instill in me the idea
that any and all forms of sex were bad, when I first had sex with a man, I
felt no more guilty about it than if it had been with a woman.

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