As a child raised in a Christian household, homosexuality was looked down upon by myself and my family. The word "gay" was own used to describe someone or something and was usually just used in a joking manor. I never thought that I would associate with gays or could even imagine how someone could be gay until I became older and had a better understand on homosexuality. The questions I still ask myself though is "Are homosexuals born gay or do they adabt to an environment that turns them gay?"
             With the idea of believeing that you can only love someone in a sexual way if they are different sex, it was very difficult having to associate with people who were gay.
             When i was fourteen years old I found ou that my aunt was homosexsual and that all this time I had been lief to about her homosexuality. What was different though was that this did not change the love I had for my aunt and the way I felt about her. I still loved her with all my hears and would do anything for her even though he sexual preference was the same as mine. But now I was confused, how could someone of my own blood be gay? Should I look at her differently now? Should I tell her how I felt about homosexuality or was I beginning to understand how people can sexually love someone of the same sex. I decided to hide the way I felt about her and her sexual preference and try and act the same with her whenever I was with her.
             All through my elementary and hunior high school years I had never met a fellow classmate who was gay until I reached high school. I changed schools when I got to high school and met man new friends, one of which was gay. Until this time I had forgotten that my aunt was gay and put it in the back of my mind, but suddely I was confronted with someone other than a relative who was gay, a friend. Would this change the way I feel about gays, or would I still act the same with them but in the back of my mind wonder how they could fell the way...