re: #76 HappyWarrior

I had a lot to overcome. There were no black or brown people where I grew up, we were all lilly white unless we got a tan. Where I lived when people thought of Los Angeles they thought of gangs, the rodney king riots and all kinds of stereotypes. I came here and realized it was just another city.

It’s funny though, I came out to my best friend in HS and his reaction wasn’t what I thought it would be. I figured he’d freak instead he was like “damn dude I’m a virgin and you’re getting it from both genders” lol. Family wise I only ever came out to my mother and sister because my dad would have flipped. We took my folks to san francisco and my dad loved it there, his reaction was “I expected nothing but gays and I was wrong”. That’s the kind of stereotyping that I grew up with.