My life was perfect. OK, nearly perfect.
My friends say I won the lottery in terms of life. I’m smart, popular, good looking. I’m great at sports and I play for our high school teams for soccer and swimming. When I was fifteen I came out, and I was accepted. The school is cool with it, the guys on the teams are cool with me, and my parents tell me they love me most days. I won the lottery. My school even let me take a male date to Junior Prom, although that wasn’t exactly a relationship which w