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Over the years many same sex attracted young people have sent us stories about their lives. Recently more young people have been sending in their stories. We have included some of them below. If you would like to put your story on this website send it to us and we'll publish it here.

Hi my name is Cassie and I'm 17 years old. I truly believe that I am the worlds biggest fag hag - sometimes this is by choice but mostly it is because of my birth! From a young age I had always copped homophobia as I was the only straight person in my family. I have a lesbian mother, a queer brother and a bisexual sister...........
Cassie, 17 years

I know that it's very common to make jokes about gays and call others things like 'poofta' 'faggot' and 'dyke'. A lot of the time people say they are just mucking around when they do this but what you need to know is that it can be really hurtful. The reason I am saying this is because of what I have experienced growing up and this is what I am going to tell you about now.......... James, 21 years

Hi, my name is Lou Peters and I'm 22 years old. I have lived all of my life in a small country town in Central Victoria with a population of about 1,000 people. It's your typical country town - full of families who are still on the same farm that their great-great grandfather started when the town was first settled ages ago................. Lou, 22 years

I first knew about my sexual feelings when I was 13. It took me about three years to deal with them honestly. I came to the conclusion I was homosexual after I had been exclusively attracted to males for at least three years, but crucially, when I fell in love with another male. After that I dealt with it honestly and openly and came out......... Kirk, 18 years

Up until the beginning of year 12, it never occurred to me that I would be anything but straight. I'd had a couple of dreams in which I'd kissed female friends, but I woke up thinking "yuk!", so didn't think much more of it. Then I got a bit of a crush on a girl that I met at a camp, and then someone at school............. Krista, 19 years

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