I struggled with my sexual preference when I was 15 and Taylor Swift said "when you're fifteen and somebody tells you they love you, you better believe them." In my case, I was more into deciding on my sexual preference than about somebody telling me they love me.
I struggled with it but I did not explore it. Instead, I filled up my time with voluntary work etc. At 19, I came to term that I'm gay and I did research (not about why I became gay but on what this whole homosexual deal is all about) because growing up in an Asian country, we've all been planted with the idea that "if you are gay, you are an embarrassment to the family or that you're abnormal and many other things." I did not condemn myself for being gay, I accepted and I knew from the on, it would be tough. That life would be filled with people stereotyping me for who I am and so I know I have to be myself, to not succumb to these stereotypes and when faced with stereotypes, I would seek out to educate these ignorant people rather than walking away or throw back insults like them.
At the age of 20, I came out of the closet to all of my close friends and I am blessed to have friends who accepts me for who I am and in the words of one of them, "I know you for who you are, not for you being the gay one." That was all I asked for, for people to know me as a person before they pass judgment on me as a gay individual.
3 years later (now), I've almost seen it all with the antics and what not. I am gay, I did not start out as a bisexual. I respect a bisexual's decision to stay bisexual but let's face it, sooner or later...you're going down the anal path. I've been thrown all sort of hate speeches, been called names and they only fired me up to educate them. Education is the key to rid off the hatred towards the LGBT and that's pretty much all we can do.
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