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Fledglink Writers: Lloyd - What I wish I'd known growing up gay

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Growing up gay, I wish I’d known some of these things…

  • Homosexual behaviour and gender non-conformity have been recorded and celebrated since the beginning of written history.
  • Opposition to these things only began rather recently in the scheme of civilisation.
  • Homosexual behaviour and transsexualism occur in every animal group across every geographic region.

    • But I’ve got to be honest.

    I’d be lying if I said it always felt this way for me.

    I’d never have guessed that the hardest person to come out to wouldn’t be any member of my family or school. It was, in fact, the one person who remained a sceptic at the end of it all: myself. Man, that guy gets on my nerves.

    And I have a feeling that many of you reading will get exactly what I’m talking about.

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