"Express Yourself. Don't Supress Yourself."

Homosexuality has always affected my life. It wasn't a certain day that I just woke and said I wanted to be gay. It doesn't change who I am. I express myself today because I don't want to seem hidden anymore. Seventeen years of my life were hidden in the shadows. I don't want that anymore.

I came out even more now than just about four years ago. I'm twenty-one now. College opens up a whole lot of experiences. You meet new people and do things that you wouldn't have necessarily done in the past. Well for me that would have to be coming out, wearing nail polish, and just expressing myself. Its not college that necessarily opened this new horizon, but the fact that with freedom the thought process opens me more to think of these things. Nail polish was over all forbidden on men in high school so that was never done until high school was over. Otherwise everything started in college.

Now on facebook, my sophomore/junior year, I can express things about me that were once bottled up. Many of my groups may be outrageous but they are inner feelings I couldn't express or wouldn't express but now am open to express them. Even if they are in constant controversy with other people, I still feel it should be expressed. I also create these groups for other to see who the real me is. A real person who isn't afraid to express his true self anymore.
I just want to say to everyone that they shouldn't feel threatened by me. I'm no different than I was in high school or middle school or anyother school. I'm still the same guy. I just happen to express myself more than ever before. Don't fear me. As a famous woman once sang: "Express yourself. Don't suppress yourself."