{"id":10490,"date":"2019-12-05T08:42:44","date_gmt":"2019-12-05T13:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=10490"},"modified":"2019-12-05T08:42:44","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T13:42:44","slug":"the-other-side-of-the-door-is-a-place-called-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/10490","title":{"rendered":"The Other Side Of The Door Is A Place Called Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;It felt like a dirty little secret, it felt like I had chains wrapped around me, I couldn&#8217;t be who I was, I felt alone and trapped. Just telling one person made me feel so much better, just that one person took a weight off my shoulder. I told Sophie my best friend first as I knew she&#8217;d be really accepting of it. She&#8217;s been so supportive and there for me. Now that everyone knows, I have nothing to hide, those chains that I felt wrapped around me are gone\u00a0and I can carry on with my life as normal and be happy. I felt like there was something wrong with me, I didn&#8217;t know other people out there felt that way, I felt so alone, so locked away and couldn&#8217;t say anything. Tell one person. Tell your story, how you feel. Everything is all pretty new so I don&#8217;t see any point in putting a label on it &#8211; gay, bi, straight, any of those kind of labels. All that I feel happy about at the moment is that I&#8217;m dating a guy and couldn&#8217;t be happier, it shouldn&#8217;t matter who I&#8217;m dating and I hope people can be happy for me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>-British Olympic diver Tom Daley.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>What makes me sad reading this: it was 2013 when he told the world this during an interview. I could see reading this as a message in a bottle from someone back in 1971 when I came out to myself. But&#8230;2013. Why was this still happening to young people in love in 2013?<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nWhy is it still happening? To any of us in love?<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It felt like a dirty little secret, it felt like I had chains wrapped around me, I couldn&#8217;t be who I was, I felt alone and trapped. Just telling one person made me feel so much better, just that one person took a weight off my shoulder. I told Sophie my best friend first as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[223,14,190],"class_list":["post-10490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-gay-love-and-romance","tag-gay-youth","tag-the-gay-kid-chronicles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}