Just realized I hadn’t cross-posted my post for HA’s LGBT week onto my own blog. Better late than never, right? Also, I just wanted to say that I was proud to have my writing stand among some excellent and powerful stories. 🙂
Why I Stopped Being Anti-Gay: Heather Doney
Heather Doney blogs at Becoming Worldly.
I was homeschooled until my grandparents forced my parents to put my siblings and I in public school.  I landed smack into the middle of 9th grade and big time culture shock.  It wasn’t that my high school was some liberal bastion of anything (being in the suburban Deep South, it definitely wasn’t), it was simply that I was around a ton of people my own age for the first time in my life and most didn’t seem to care about or hardly even notice me at all.  I was that unsocialized homeschool kid, the only one like me, alone in the crowd, awkward, lonely, and vulnerable.
I tried hard to adjust and at the end of sophomore year something amazing happened – I finally, for the first time in my life, made a close friend…
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