Tag: desire

Though it feels like I’ve always known about myself, years ago when I still was a child at the age of 14, I wasn’t able to make any distinction. Certainly, I knew there was something different, ‘sinful’ in me but I didn’t even presume about being gay and that it was forbidden in the community and area I was part of. Along with my mother, we often went to my aunt, who lived in another city with her family....

You remember I told you about Jacob, my crush in the first year of college? Obviously, after that incident in the kitchen we started seeing a lot more of each other. I guess he was my first boyfriend, in that bright and breezy first blush of a crush that develops slowly into something like love. We made an odd couple - or maybe I perfect one, depending on how you look at it. I was still wound tight and anxious...