I'm 14, I'm gay & I want a boyiend | Peter Tatchell

Contents:

• I’M 14, I’M GAY & I WANT A BOYIEND
• THE DIGAL SEX LIV OF YOUNG GAY TEENAGERS
• AM I GAY? (QUIZ FOR TEENAGE BOYS)
• MY 14 YEAR OLD GAY SON IS SEEING A 17 YEAR OLD

I’M 14, I’M GAY & I WANT A BOYIEND

Fourteen year old Lee tells about first sex, boyiends, g out, paedophilia, and why an age of nsent of 16 won’t help unr-age gays like him. Wearg a whe T-shirt and bat troers, his sophistited gay image mak him look olr than 14.

THE DIGAL SEX LIV OF YOUNG GAY TEENAGERS

The age of nsent laws don’t make easy for Lee to have a stable gay relatnship. The law says that a homosexual act wh a male unr 16 is a ser crime, even if the person mtg the act is himself below the age of 16.

Lee is jt one of a growg number of lbians and gays who are g out at an ever earlier age…twelve, thirteen and fourteen is not unmon nowadays.

AM I GAY? (QUIZ FOR TEENAGE BOYS)

Rearch published by Project Sigma 1993 shows that 9 percent of gay men had their first homosexual experience by the age of 10, 19 percent by the age of 12, and 35 per cent by the age of 14.

Yet most gay mpaign groups seem only terted the human rights of the over-16s. “There’s nothg much for young gays like me”, says Lee. Lee first realised he was gay at the age of eight.

Well, he didn’t ll himself gay. “My first gay sex was wh a iend om school lled John. How did you feel about your first gay experience?

MY 14 YEAR OLD GAY SON IS SEEING A 17 YEAR OLD

So when did Lee start thkg of himself as beg gay?

I was watchg a TV bate about gays.