When I was young I did not fully realise that I'm a lesbian and I identified as bisexual. My family kicked me out of the house for coming out as bisexual and I was homeless for three to four years as a child for that (...)
At the time I didn't realize how wrong it was, particularly since he was my boyfriend. I only discovered later in life that I was a lesbian, but sadly I was another victim of compulsory heterosexuality (....)
This is a story I have not said out loud in its entirety, not even when I was in trauma therapy for these events. It contains descriptions of sexual abuse and indirectly the sexual abuse of children, so read with caution (...)