Being A Gay Community Essay

In a way it is quite unusual to be a gay person in diverse an assumed to be original town like of Houston. This is in no way bashing the city in any way but particularly just throwing my two cents to grow up as a gay Mexican American and discovering the gay community. The smell of liquor and stench of sweaty people around you isn’t the combination that is flattering. I didn’t grow up with the same freedom most of this people did and is was quite clear. I grew up in a Mexican family with the belief of my mom weighing down on us like an iron fist. It wasn’t that she was evil but she tried to shelter us from becoming like our father who was at that time an alcoholic with a hint of abusiveness in him. In a way it was a struggling effort to play two different rolls and with one being pervasive to the other is not fun. I can remember moments when growing up I had to give a show and hope no one doesn’t find out about me. The thing with my classes and growing up, a lot of students were Mexican American as well. You could say a lot of the populations of students of the schools I went too were Latinos. The problem wasn’t that but the fact that sometimes our culture carries being masculine as important and not to be seen as weak. Obviously the best way kids can prove …show more content…
I knew that to make my mom understand that in order for me to be successful I have to push and get a degree. I had to convince her that working at an oil refinery isn’t going to cut it. I also needed to teach my most of my family that being machismo isn’t good because in a way they had to except the fact of my sexuality. I did all of this because I still need support from regardless. One thing for sure is I am not used to living as an American because it’s hard and sometimes brutal. It’s not brutal because of the lifestyle but for the stigma that I carry and how people carry