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The blog Born This Way publish hilar (and poignant) childhood photos and stori om gay and lbian adults. It don't look like a choice.

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BORN GAY, BORN THIS WAY: A PHOTO BLOG

A blog lled Born This Way pairs childhood photos wh first-person says on beg gay. * gay childhood picture *

" do somethg very simple: It pairs a snapshot of a gay person as a kid wh a personal say about what he or she se when lookg at the photo. "Lookg at now, as a 31-year-old, only reaffirms what I've always believed — that my beg gay wasn't a choice. The blog's edor, a DJ Los Angel who go by Pl V, attempts to pre-empt one issue the blog's about page: "So, some of the pix here feature gay boys wh feme tras, and some gay girls wh mascule tras.

And even more gay kids wh NONE of those tras. Jt like real life, the gay kids e all shas and layers of mascule and feme. At this pot my life I lived a blissfully unaware gay liftyle: Havg all female iends, really REALLY likg Catwoman, and always tryg on my iends' fake, plastic, high-heeled sho when I went to their hoe.

THE GAY HISTORY OF AMERI’S CLASSIC CHILDREN’S BOOKS

* gay childhood picture *

I actually didn't realize I was even close to beg gay until my graduatg year of high school, so this photo is one of those thgs I look at now and thk to myself — "How did I NOT know?!

We didn't have the word "gay" when I was a child, only the word "sissy! To that end, I realized very late life, when I was 18, that I was gay. "Featurg me AND my ltle brother, who is also gay!

WHEN DO GAY KIDS START “ACTG GAY”?

I ll this picture, 'Blue, Blue, Brown, Brown, Gay.

"I'm a gay trans man who lov drs. "Let's jt say didn't really e as a shock to anybody when I turned out to be a gay trans man. "A baby gay wh legs for days.

BORN THIS WAY: CHILDHOOD PHOTOS OF GAY ADULTS

Over at the blog Born This Way a proud gay Angeleno, intified only as Pl V., publish childhood photos and stori om gay and lbian adults.

SHOW US A PICTURE YOU HAVE AS A KID THAT SCREAMS YOU WERE "BORN THIS WAY" AND BY THAT I MEAN "GUH GUH GUH GAY"

As Pl explas: some of the pix here feature gay boys wh feme tras, and some gay girls wh mascule tras. The pot of the project, for Pl, is reflectg the tth of growg up wh a different orientatn and, hopefully, showg today's gay youth that others have had the same Eyeteeth. "My mom always says she knew I was gay as soon as I popped out of the womb.

"You get one gus for which kid here is an out, gay adult today. "I didn't know I was gay yet, but my mom's shirt sure did.

Niche '80s gay child! ” It’s about a t who liv wh two gay men; you n tell by the book, then jt published, was evintly meant to help normalize already borgly normal fai like ours by g the tradnal substutn of animals for people orr to illtrate how much fun havg gay dads n be.

*BEAR-MAGAZINE.COM* GAY CHILDHOOD PICTURE

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