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Born This Way! By: Shayne Reed Brown I have always known there was something different about me, but I could never put my finger on it as a child. When high school hit I slowly figured it all out. Of course I was completely oblivious through most of my freshmen year, but some unconventional behaviors led me to figure out, I was not the same as other boys my age. I never had a problem coming out to my friends, but when it came to my family everything suddenly became overly complicated. I told my mother first, needless to say she didn't take it very well...she cried, and like every other mother at this time she wondered what SHE had done wrong “yea your son just told you is gay and your first response is what did I do wrong not to be a bitch but that is just a little conceded.” I told my father when I got my first boyfriend, oddly enough he kind of understood, he said he didn't agree but he would tolerate it. My brother found out by my best friend at the time letting it slip, he was less than understanding... he freaked! Except for a few of my favorite cousins on my mother’s side and the best aunt in the world on my dad’s side no one in my extended family has any clue. Which is kind of nerve wracking, because it gets more and more complicated every time I see them. Don’t get me wrong I am the first person to announce that I am gay and damn proud of it. It is just I LOVE MY FAMILY and I would never want to lose them to something as unimportant as my sexual orientation.
