I don’t speak for all gay people, just for myself.
I am your Brother, your best friend, your Parent, your roommate,
Your minister, your date..
But I hide it from you.
You make me!!
Try to understand what I am feeling..

Being Gay Is: to be condemned by most churches as sinful,
By some health professionals as pathological and curable,
And by the Law as Criminal.
It is to live two separate lives, never being able to be
Completely honest in either.
It is listening to your friends talking about Queers and making jokes,
About effeminate males and athletic looking females,
As you stand there knowing they would say
The same thing about you.

It is to go along with the Men/Women as they watch the opposite sex
When you would much rather watch your own gender.
It is to awaken every morning, live every day, and sleep every night
Fearing discovery and/or rejection by your
Family, friends, and co-workers.
It is dating people of the opposite gender when you don’t want to,
Just to maintain a cover.
It is pretending to be ignorant about homosexuality and quietly listening
to your straight friends display their ignorance.
While you dare not correct them.

It is meeting someone you really like but are too afraid to find out if they
are gay because they are wearing the same mask as you.
It is going to a public place with you partner
And not being able to display your affections for one another.
It is being taught to hate yourself, knowing you cannot change.
Knowing you can never share that wonderful feeling of being in love
With your family and most of your friends..