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GAY SWEET GAY
I was 11 when people started llg me gay. Beg labeled the “gay kid, ” sixth gra ma me a social pariah. A few guys my middle school thought I was too gay to like punk.
My first clatn was to not tell anyone bee I knew would e to light that I was beg harassed for beg perceived to be gay. Even though I still had no ia I was gay — my sire for other boys phed towards the back of my bra — I felt a ep shame for people thkg I was gay. How uld I expla to my mom that the kids at school for over a year and a half had lled me gay?
How uld I expla to her that I wasn’t gay even though everyone thought I was? “You’re gay? Y, I was the gay kid.