Sharing Our Lives:
Living in the Unaccepting World
by Tiffany Lee

Submitted November 2001

When I was about ten years old, I was placed in a group home in northwest D.C.
I didn't know too much then except how to play with my baby dolls and jump rope.

Once I turned eleven this other female was placed in the group home with me
and she was very beautiful. I didn't know how to handle the feelings I had
toward her at the time, but I kind of figured that she liked me too. We
became the best of friends and started hanging out together on a regular
basis. One weekend she took me on pass with her to her mother's house.
Once we arrived, I met her mother who is gay and her mother's girlfriend.
My head was filled with a lot of questions that I was too scared to ask out
loud. I guess her mother must have noticed because she started talking to
me about "the life." She told me that once I got older that she could tell
that I was going to be gay and I said no way. On this particular night me
and my friend was in her bed just cracking jokes on people that we knew and
started to rub my legs. I didn't know what to do. She was just waiting on
me to get comfortable and tell her myself. I thought she might b mad because
I had heard a lot of stories about girls coming out to their parents and
being disowned. Now that I'm 19 everyone in my family has accepted me and
they figure as long as I'm happy, they're happy!!

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