There was an out lesbian called Karina on the Landcare
Environment Action Program which I completed in 1994.
At the time I knew I had been born gay but hadn't told anyone.
I was still in the closet.
Karina sensed that I was gay & not out. We started talking &
I felt I could trust her so I told her.
Karina was the first person I told & today the friends I met
through her & karina herself are the closest to me (apart from
Tony).Unfortunately they are in Lismore and I am in
Sydney!!.
Then came my family to tell about me being born gay.
I told my brothers (two of them) when we were driving in mums
car just us three.
They at first said "Oh Yuck, your not GAY don't be rediculous"
. But they kept a smile on their faces & after that they
were fine to me. That night they told mum & she rang me up &
said my brothers were upset & I had no right telling them
such shit.
But I told mum I had been born gay & have known it ever since I
was old enough to know. A few days passed & they have been
fantastic ever since.
I'm very lucky they are all good about it & my brothers often
throw in a little joke like: "Check these girls out!!, oh
sorry you don't like girls do you Damian?".
I think thats pretty cute.
