My Early Gay Life as a Small Town Boy in China

Our body probably knows us better than our mind

I was born and raised in a small, relatively unknown town in southern China. Time seemed to pass very slowly there. Until high school, I had never even heard the word ‘gay.’

However, from a young age, I could faintly sense that I was different from my peers, a fact that others could also easily see.

Since elementary school, I was known among my classmates and elders as the boy who only liked playing with girls. My…