“Born this way” made sense when I was young, I certainly didn’t choose to be gay. But now we know better. There are still unanswered questions, but to speak of being “Born This Way” is to deliberately deceive, speak with ignorance or or retreat into a place of convenience and cowardice. After all, whatever we can blame on jeans can be given licence. True?

I want today’s kids, parents, carers, political leaders (etc) to know what the gay lobby is working overtime to suppress. The life I had did not have to happen.

Here’s the mission: Protect child sexual development and seek out others who will do the same.

Don’t be impressed by this gay kid that developed heterosexual desires as an adult. My story is one of being set-up as a child, partly by my home life, but mainly by my culture. I then increasingly took charge of my own pleasures, made my own mistakes and built my own addictions! It’s not impressive! I live with the consequences of my earlier life; both the things that came against me and the things I brought against myself. Yet in living with different thoughts and ways, new neural paths have been built. I have not so much changed, as I have moved forward. It’s not impressive; it’s called being human.

Opening the closet, I conceal my face. I do this to protect other people. It is necessary and it will be done. When the time is right I will leap from my closet (so to speak) and make myself known.

I offer no apology for protecting the vulnerable (and you shouldn’t have to apologise for protecting the vulnerable either). I work for a world where the sexual health of children is a greater priority than the comfort of adults.