I Was Forced to Come Out of the Closet When I Was 16

But this is not a sad story.

Photo by Matthew Henry from Burst

We were kissing on a friend’s bed.

She lifted her head and asked me, “Is it okay if I leave you a hickey?”

I said no because my parents would see it.

We’d been dating for exactly one month, but neither of our parents knew. Our friends knew, and anyone…