By Andrew Nicolas Moran
September 11, 2026
*Names have been changed to protect privacy*
The following describes my natural *comming out* story, as opposed to my para-political *comming out* a few years later at age 19...
Homosexuality is an activity, not an identity.
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Between March 1984 and May 1985 we lived in Venezuela. I am at liberty to discuss this now. We travelled from my/our home in Margate (Broward Co.) Florida to Ciudad Guayana, Bolivar State. My father and mother were to practice medicine there for an NGO. He as a doctor (from Cuba), she as a nurse (from Venezuela).
My brother and I (born in Florida), were enrolled in a local Liceo in Ciudad Bolivar.
I came out & proud as openly homosexual much later at age 19 back home in North Miami, Florida (my Club Soda post-adolescent period)...however; my first homosexual experiences happened much earlier - in context of that Venezuela mid 1980s *anno tropicalis*...with boys from The Liceo.
[Opera AI generated rendition of my four *Liceo* lovers - imperfect but based on what I vaguely remember of them...]
[This is an Opera AI generated rendition of the boy I developed a sexual affair with - but made to make us look late-teenage...]
In that episode, I experienced three memorable one-offs (con Manuel, Rene & Yeto) and one steady affair (con uno que apodaban 'El Negro'). All five of us were the same age, members of the same class.
This is how it went: EVERYONE in my class was officially *homophobic* (my male classmates felt it necessary to repeat often that they "only liked the body of the woman").
I made a pass at Rene. At first, he almost punched me...but he reconsidered and instead made me give him head...
and...
He told 'El Negro'...who came back at me to ask to give him head too...this activity developed later into a hot & heavy for the rest of the school term.
'El Negro' told Manuel, who one day approached me to signal he wanted it too.
His best friend Yeto, followed...Manuel told him how good I was at giving head.
What happens between exclusive lovers of the body of the woman stays between exclusive lovers of the body of the woman.
THAT is how homosexuality works in the Nueva Granada region: its either a casual activity on the side or a short lived prohibited affair never admitted to or talked about.
Very similar to how homosexuality works in West Asia and North Africa.
