Discovering my sexuality was not an awakening per say, because I had never identified with being straight in the first place.
It was instead an addition. It was an identity added to the list of things I call myself. It served as a line of demarcation by which I could now describe my attractions (or perversions depending on who you ask).
To me, ascribing the label gay was similar to the labels Jewish or white; they describe certain characteristics about me. But one month after coming out, my