coming out

"Where is it coming from, this echo, this huge No that surrounds you...?"

There was always this sense that I can't. Just can't. Or shouldn't. Whatever it was, I shouldn't.

There seems to be a slew of homosexual debate based blogs posted on progressiveu recently, and forgive me for jumping on the band wagon but this just hits too close to home. I'm sure that there are people out there who would say this much more eloquently than I and be much more articulate than I tend to be when I'm talking about myself.

Being a gay teenager is harder then being a straight one. Take the pressure you feel as a normal teenager, and multiply by 50: that's how gay teens feel. With all the normal stress of school and social lives, the added confusion of questioning your sexuality adds more straw to the camel's back.