Fourteen Questions and Some Answers
1. When did you decide you were gay? Actually, I decided I was not gay, but that made no difference. When I was in the early elementary school years, I recognized that I interacted with girls the way other girls interacted with girls, rather than the way boys usually interacted with girls. I strongly identified as male and I didn't want to give anyone any indication that I was otherwise, so I recall making an effort to not present any effeminate behaviors. But I wasn't particularly masculine, either. That being said, I didn't really understand much about my orientation until I started to mature sexually around age 11 or 12. I wasn't attracted to girls at all and was only attracted to boys. My dreams at night only included intimacy with boys, not girls. I decided I wasn't gay, because I didn't really identify with the gay pride movement, nor did I have any plans to act on my feelings. But that didn't change them at all. I ke...