I was raised in an extremely heterosexist society so it is not like one day you go, ‘ Oh I guess I’m gay. ’ You feel weird. You feel scared and you don’t want to talk about it. You know something’s different about you, but you don’t even know that for a fact because you can’t even talk about it with other people.It was a long process, but I definitely knew when I was 12. But I wasn’t able to actually vocalize that or even say it to myself. I wasn’t able to say, ‘ I think I’m gay inside. ’ I didn’t even say that until I was like 18 or 19 when I was like, ‘ Wow. I really am gay. ’ Even though like all through junior high and high school, I was like, ‘ Yeah. I definitely don’t like boys. ’