What was High School like for you. [View all]

My High School years 1978-1982.

We didn't have cell phones, computers, the internet, hell we didn't even get HBO till my senior year in school.

My point being I thought I was the only Gay person on earth ( I shouldn't say Gay I wasn't for sure what I was, I just knew I was different). I knew long before High School I was different and I didn't know why. I couldn't talk to anybody about it, didn't know where to get information, so I just lived in my own little world.

Between my sophomore & junior year we moved back to S.E. Kentucky and I was reacquainted with a fellow friend that was from my early childhood. We became best friends instantly.

Lets just say the summer of 1980 with my best friend Wayne by my side was my summer of love. I figured out who I was and what my sexuality was. It felt right, it felt safe, It felt secure.

We never talked to anyone else that summer of what had happened between us (being in a Small town in Kentucky).

1981 we moved back to South Florida, I was so pissed at my parents for taking Wayne away from me, but as for me I had a new found fondness for my sexuality (I felt alive). Needless to say about this time came the talk of the "Gay Disease" "AIDS" and I took a nose dive so far in the closet (that I stayed there till the early 1990's).

As soon as I graduated High School I went back to Kentucky to search for Wayne but he had already moved away & no one seems to know where he went (I have never seen him since).

Wayne wherever you are, I hope your safe and have everything in live that we talked about during our Summer of love.

P.S. Sorry if my thoughts seemed scattered, I just wanted to share this with my fellow friends.

Bill