Re: Coming out.

Stone Gordonssen wrote:

> 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.

I thought boys who were going to become gay were supposed to prefer the
company of the girls? (I never really cared either way... by grade
three, my group of friends (not counting me) reflected my siblings (not
counting me): two boys and two girls. Never noticed that coincidence
till now :) But then, I Am Not Representative Of Society At Large.)

> 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.

I was *forced* to learn to play the piano. At primary school, we had to
learn the recorder. At my first secondary school, we had to learn the
recorder and keyboard; I also briefly learnt the sax. At my second
secondary school, we had to learn the keyboard. (And of course, learning
the keyboard directly transfers to the piano.) What's so
non-conservative about playing the piano?

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Tristan                  <kesuari@...>

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