LGBT Survey:

1. How long have you known you are part of the LGBT community?
I have known it around... 17 years. I denied it most of that time. (There ya go... Michael was my first male romantic relationship... Now you know. Are you happy?)

2. Was it a struggle (emotionally) for you at the beginning?
Yeah... It was quite a struggle with trying to deny it to myself and everything.

3. How did you start to discover your sexuality? (Example, thoughts, feelings…ex)
It had to be those thoughts of "Mmm... He looks so good. I wonder what he is packin'."

4. What part of the LGBT community do you belong to? (Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, ex)
I admitted to myself that with the fact that I can't look at a girl and think, "DANG! SHE LOOKS SEXY!" that I must be gay... though I haven't always been so.

5. How long have you been out of the closet, or if your not, do you plan to be at some point?
I have been out of the closet with everybody else other than myself since I was a wee lad... My dad still denies it and wants to hear nothing about it.

6. Does your parents/parent know, or will they ever know?
My mom and dad both know, though my dad wants to pretend that he doesn't.

7. Did they take it well, or do you predict that they will take it well?
My mom took it quite well and supports me whole-heartedly in it. She just wants me to be happy. My dad is ultra-religious and therefore is so against it that the only reason that he hasn't disowned me is because I leave him out of it.

8. Would you…
a. Hold hands with your same gender partner in public?
Without a doubt!

b. Kiss them in public?
Of course! (I wouldn't make a big scene of it like some people do, though. I don't need to draw others' attention to myself.)

c. Introduce them as 'your girl/boyfriend' to family and friends that haven't met them?
Yeah! (I wouldn't expect it to go over too well to begin with for some of these meetings, but I would introduce them to every one of them.)

9. What 3 things ANGERS THE HELL outta you about people's terrible 'opinions' about the LGBT community or certain comments, acts, ex…

1. The assumption that just because a person is gay means that they are going to be checking everybody of their sex, whether gay or straight, out. (Just because we are gay does not mean that we are sluts.)

2. Their extreme bias of our community tends to anger me quite a bit. It is just like racism, sexism, and any other kind of extreme bias... and nobody should be hated for any reason. You may fear us or hate us after you really get to know us and not a minute sooner. (I don't hate or fear you because you are straight, so why do you hate or fear me because I am not?)

3. It really gets under my skin that they would hold our sexuality against us and try to say that we have no right to be married or to have equal rights just because we aren't straight. When did we ever say that a straight person couldn't get married or couldn't have equal rights to what we have?

10. Do you like/love someone right now of the same gender?
I love a lot of people of the same gender as I am. (Did you mean to ask if I was in love with somebody of the same gender at the current moment?)

11. If so, do they know?
Does who know what?

12. Have you told someone about your sexuality and they took it badly?
I have told many people about it, and around half of them have ignored it.

13. Are you proud of whom you are?
I am proud of it in the sense of my being gay. I am not so proud of it in some other ways, though. (I need a caution sign around my neck that reads: "Caution: Don't get too close. May explode if provoked.")