My first encounter with a lesbian

I guess you could say I was pretty sheltered child. Growing up my parents were going thorough a lot so I spend a lot of time with my grandparents and my Papaw was a preacher which lead to me spending a lot of time in church. It’s really weird though because my mom’s cousin is gay who was like an uncle to me. Even though my mom’s cousin is gay I never really considered him to be gay. I don’t think I put it together because that’s what I always knew him to act like so I just thought it was normal for him even though I knew he was different from the other men in my life.

Even though I grew up with a gay uncle, I never had an encounter with a lesbian. I knew what it meant because of movies of course but it was something weird to me and I didn’t really understand it. I remember being a freshman in high school and sitting in my art class when one of my friends. We were freaked out because there was a lesbian in the class who sat a table away from us. This was my first encounter with a lesbian. The class was small and it was one where you could talk so you got to know people In it. One day my friend and I were sitting at our table and the girl came and sat at the end of it. Being the narrow-minded people we were when we were 14 we freaked out and kind of gave her the silent treatment. We thought she had a crush on us. Eventually we began to make small talk and by the end of the year she became one of our good friends. She explained to us that just because she liked girls that didn’t mean she liked us like that. She told us she had a type and straight girls weren’t her type.. She is only attracted to other lesbians for the most part except for the occasional crush of a straight girl but she would never do anything to peruse them or make them feel uncomfortable.  In the beginning of the school year she was the weird lesbian and by the end of it she was our friend Noelle. It just goes to show you that you can’t be so quick to judge and you should give everyone a chance no matter what there sexuality is.