Same Situation....With A Good Result!

Base: Cafe Coming Out Forum
Re: Cant Wait to Go! (Unknown)
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 00:56:33 GMT
From: Unknown (Glendon)

     Well i can honestly say that I have gonre through what you gone through,
except mine has a result. See when I figured I was gay I was eleven, and then I made the biggest
mistake of my life. I told my uncle. It was fine at first, my uncle never told a soul. And then
inevitable happened. ..... On April 9th of 1986 I spent the night at my grandparents,
where my uncle was staying, that night he went out drinking. I don't remember ever hearing him come in
or hereing him coming into my bedroom. That night I was raped at 11, by someone I trusted.
This needless to say scared the crap out of me. What was I to do! Well I told everyone in family.
And then the real nightmare began. My mothers family wanted to kill the bastard, and my fathers 
family wanted to hide it. The were scared of the public knowing that they had someone gay in the family.
Well I showed them! 
      At 18, using my full and complete name, (I was editor of the school newspaper and a columnist at the local paper)
I came out to the whole city! Well to make a very long story short, my uncle is jail, serving a 15 year sentence,
and each month my dads family gives me $1000 check (from a civil suit), for the next 8 years.
And now I'm happy. Yes I love my family, but I did what was right for me. I made hellish nightmare into a dream come true.
I definitely feel accepted now. And I could care less about the money. 
Be strong and attentive, because you will be truly loved. 

1. to sue or not to sue (Unknown)