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Revision as of 01:47, 13 March 2006 by Beno1000 (talk | contribs)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)I'm a 16 year old gay male currently living in the city of Liverpool in the United Kingdom. I enjoy computing, using the internet and learning more about computing, and I always tend to use Misplaced Pages to quickly look up a topic and I am impressed by what is on much of Misplaced Pages.
I also have another user name which was User:beno1990 but I started using this account instead.
I plan to extend this page soon to have more information about me. For the moment look at my user boxes to get a grasp of what kind of person I am.
Biography
Early Life and Education
I was born in a town called Worksop which is in the United Kingdom in the year 1990. I am now 16 years old. I spent the first few years of my school life going to the Holy Family school in that town until I was roughly 8 or 9 years old when my mother got engaged to a man living in Liverpool city in the north west of England. I started going to the St Mary's Much Woolton school which is close to where I live. When I finished that school when I was 11 I started at the local catholic secondary school St Francis Xavier's college where I still attend but am in my final year before finishing my GCSE course.
Spare Time and Personal Life
In my spare time I'm a drummer, and also play some synthesiser, however poorly it is. I also enjoy using computers and the internet, and enjoy playing computer and viseo games. I particuarly enjoy strategy games and first person shooters like Deus Ex. Online I play the MMORPG Second Life.
I'm a young gay male, and I've just recently got myself a boyfriend (yay!!!). I'm quite kinky in a lot of ways. I'm also in the Furry Fandom and do enjoy Yiff, however yiff only makes up a part of the furry fandom for me and I think that the non-sexual side is probably more important than the sexual side. I'm open about my sexual orientation with most people, however I stall haven't come out to my parents.
LGBT issues and me
The attitudes of people around me to my sexuality
Well as I've said before I'm a 16 year old gay male living in the United Kingdom. I recently came out to most people I know just before Christmas 2005 but at the time of writing this I still haven't come out to my parents. My parents are strong Catholics so I don't think they'd be very happy about my sexuality if I was to come out to them, and my stepdad has openly made homophobic comments in the past so I don't think telling him about my sexuality would be a good idea, and my mum uses words like "puff" and "puffy" and similar derogatory terms for LGBT people, and has laughed about LGBT issues as well so I don't know if she'd take it well either. I do plan on coming out to my parents eventually though.
Friends
All of my friends took my coming out well, some of them being gay, bisexual or lesbian themselves. One of my closest friends also came out as bisexual at the same time I came out as gay so he took it well as well. I also have quite a few other gay, bisexual or lesbian friends so I'm in a good crowd as far as sexuality goes.
Other people at school
A lot of people at school were OK when news about my sexuality got around, and took it well and weren't concerned with it. Other people were more hostile towards it and I've even been physically threatened several times at school over my sexuality, and when I've reported it most (and I emphasise most) of the teachers at my school have been pretty receptive over the problem and gave out fair punishments to people for homophobic threats. There is also quite a bit of verbal abuse that gets yelled around for it but I'm not really bothered about that because most of the people who yell abuse around for my sexuality are insecure over their own sexuality and well, the need to make comments over someone else's sex life shows they must be making up for lack of their own.
I frequently get asked by people I don't know at school who have heard rumours about me whether I'm gay or not, which I always respond to in the affermative, because I feel that you can't be out to your friends and those you trust and not other people in the same environment. Often they respond negatively to me answering yes, but they're usually 12 year olds or 13 year olds so am I really going to be bothered what they think about my sexuality or if they make physical threats?
Other people at my school don't even believe me when I say I'm gay and have the impression that I'm attention seeking. What I say to that is this: I've been threatened over my sexuality, I have people constantly making homophobic remarks at me for my sexuality, I risk someone from school outing me to my parents, and I risked losing the respect of some of my closest friends when I came out. Yet I still say I'm gay. Does this sound like attention seeking to you?
Other people around me
Other people in my environment who are mostly casual aquaintances I don't know enough to call friends, or are the family or parents of friends who know that I'm gay have mostly been ok with my sexuality but with an occasional "How can you know at your age?" or a "I'll prey for you" if they're a more religious type. I'm not too bothered about the more negative ones though, the ones who think that it's impossible to know their sexuality at my age are pretty ignorant, and the ones who think that my sexuality is something wrong and needs prayer to cure it are even more ignorant.
My own feelings on my sexuality
I know that some LGBT people are displeased or even ashamed of who they are, and I think this is sad. People can't choose their sexual orientation (In my opinion, which I intend to keep out of Misplaced Pages articles because some people feel that sexuality is at least partly choice) so being ashamed of your sexual orientation is to me, being ashamed of having blue eyes or similar. On a similar note, you could ask a rhetorical question; "do people with blue eyes openly display pride over the fact that they have blue eyes?" Well no, but have people with blue eyes ever been persecuted for who they are or still experiance discrimination and prejudice for who they are? No, they haven't.
Personally I have to say I'm quite proud and comfortable being gay, however it did take some time to come to terms with the fact that I may never have children.
Music
I study music at GCSE and I play both the drum kit and some synthesiser but not often and not very well. I usually do most things listening to music as well.
Mostly I listen to rock music of various subgenres, and electronica.
Artists I like
See User:Beno1000/Artists I Like
Instruments I play
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Personal Political and Social Beliefs
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Sex and Sexuality
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Age
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Nationality
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Nationally Proud
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I 'ate them chavs!
Don't let me in the cockpit!
Me and Time
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Education
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One of these. Can't really decide.
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Health
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It's never been professionally diagnosed that I have Aspergers Syndrome but I probably do have it.
Astrology and Zodiac
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Personality
I'm going to take the test soon so I'll fill this in when I do.
Interests
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Books
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Colours
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Well I am gay...
Computing
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Games
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Music
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