Comp Het Had Me Identifying As Bi For Years. Here’s How I Realized I Was Actually Gay.

Eleni Stephanides
Hello, Love
Published in
8 min readOct 24, 2022

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*Names changed to protect confidentiality.

Gay af.

Though I wholeheartedly identify this way now, I didn’t always. For many years, beginning at a young age, I believed myself to be bi.

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In kindergarten I fawned for a boy named Tim*, ever since the day in art class when…

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Eleni Stephanides
Hello, Love

LGBTQ+ writer and Spanish interpreter who enjoys wandering through nature, reading fiction and mental health content, speaking Spanish, and petting cats.