Personal Narrative On Being Gay

As a person who grew up in a small southern bible belt town in the middle of nowhere, being gay can have it's hardships. You spend most of your early years trying to hide it and having people make fun of you for the things you like, or the things you do. I have always been gay and somehow this town knew it before I did. I tried very hard to make who I was someone I wasn't because I was petrified that I would not be accepted and people would reject me. As time went on I became less of a person who cared what people thought and more of a person who wanted to be himself. I finally came out and all went up in flames. Students I had went to school with since grade school started to taunt me even harder and make me feel even less about myself. This continued on for a few years then I decided that I needed to become something else I didn't want to be, a mean person. …show more content…
This place makes me a person I do not want to be, and it hurts me more and more everyday. It's like the person that I used to be gets snuffed out a little bit more everyday. I want so much to be the person I once was and leave this version of myself in this town. Being openly gay is not supposed to make a person less of who they are, or make them do things that they do not wish to do, just for survival. This is high school in my town, this is everywhere in my town. I need to get out, and one way or another, I will achieve my goal and rise up above all the hate and self