March2013 |
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Rachna | 32 | Toronto, Canada
"Over the course of the next year I realized that even if my mother, aunt or other relatives did not accept or support me, my cousins would always stand up for me."
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Danny | 21 | Liverpool. England
"It came to the end of my first year of study and I had more notches on my bedpost and empty bottles in my bin than credits at Uni."
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Luke | 26 | Ontario, Canada
"My wife swears that I had gay tendencies all along, but from my perspective it has been a developmental process (like everything in my life) and there's always a sense of progress."
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David | 44 | London England
"I then set about leading my double life in the armed forces; I had too, as it remained illegal in the forces to be gay. This continued until, during a search of my room, a copy of Gay Times was found."
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Tom | 27 | Birmingham, England
"That was the first proper time I’d come out to anyone and I’d done it to an entire classroom of my fellow students."
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Craig | 40 | Brighton/London, England
"I did everything I could to be a proper boy. I loved Madonna, Belinda and Carol from T'Pau, and hid the pictures of A-Ha not only from my family, but also from myself."
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Joe | 23 | Pembrokeshire, UK
"In the autumn of 2009 I went to work for a waiting agency in London where a lot of people were gay, including the boss. I thought it was fantastic."
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Simon | 25 | Leeds, England
"What was interesting is that I tried to fall back into performing - pretending I was someone different. Or adapting to match the people around me so I didn't feel different or on my own."
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Elisabeth | 46 | Nottinghamshire, UK
"I thought that if I was gay then I needed to look a certain way so I cut all my hair off and tried to butch up."
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