Trapped

Experience:

-     The wonder of the earliest childhood memories.

-     The delight of the unexpected discovery and joy of sexual feelings and sexual play.

-     The overwhelming power of first love.

-     The brutal and completely unexpected shock of homosexual insight.

-     The unrelenting prejudice and judgment of a hostile society.

-     The persistent and literally paralyzing fear of exposure.

-     The profound sadness of loneliness and of alone knowing what I was.

-     The unquenchable fear of complete separation from God's love.

-     The hopelessness of a child facing eternal damnation.

-     The chronic persistent worry of what family, friends, and peers would think of me and do if my cover was ever blown.

-     Sexual abuse: unendurable confusion and loss of innocence

-     Spiritual explosion: understanding, gratitude, and peace

 

This is a letter to the heterosexual world toward understanding and acceptance on behalf of present and future generations of gay children.