Why This Blog Exists

It took me 40 years to be able to look into the mirror and say "I'm Gay."

As early as second grade, I discovered that some of my feelings (a crush on another boy) were just not acceptable. Not at all.

I couldn't make the feelings stop, but I learned how to keep them so deeply bottled up that no one could see them. The resulting mixture of conscious concealment and unconscious repression laid the foundation for decades of depression and internal agony.

When I finally came out, I began to realize how much I had lost to a culture of shame.

RepressionPosterBoy is an effort to stand up against that culture in the hope of preventing the sort of damage it caused in my life, and perhaps providing a little encouragement and direction for some of those who on similar paths.