Leading a normal life as a homosexual in this modern day comes with many problems. These problems start early in life and vary from personal issues to social issues.
             As a small child in a small town I learned at an early age that homosexuality wasn't really accepted or thought to be anything close to normal. I can remember at an early age at elementary school kids on the playground using words like "faggot" or "queer" to torment other children. Being a young boy, I perceived that they were using these words as an insult maybe suggesting that being gay made you a freak, or that there was something wrong with you. I began to learn very early in life that there was something that separated me from the other kids and because of that I may face problems.
             In Jr. High I rode the bus with a guy who for years and years was constantly tormented and badgered because he dressed and talked differently. Because he chose to dress differently and talked in a slightly different tone of voice all the kids assumed he was gay. Automatically after the kids made the assumption that he was gay they began tormenting him on a daily basis on the bus trip to and from school. The kids had a hay-day with his emotions and feeling and harassed him so much that he actually walked miles to school. Eventually the harassment and torment gave his family no other choice but to enroll him into another school system.
             I never really experienced harassment my self because I didn't fit the description of the stereotypical gay male. On the other hand, because I knew that I was gay myself I paid close attention to what cruelty people faced early on in their journey through life. Life itself is a challenge and becomes that much more challenging when heterosexual children are taught at a young age to respond negatively toward homosexuals.
             If by chance you are born gay you are almost forced to play the role of a straight hetero-sexual ...