We Are Who We Are.

• Evie Jones, Grade 3
• Short Story
• 2013

CHAPTER 1

There was a boy in grade 4 who came home from school with tears filling his eyes. He cried to his mother, “I think I am gay”. His mother seemed very disappointed and said firmly, “But you have loved girls all your life. We are who we are and nothing is wrong with people who are gay.” As the boy left the room he said to himself, “I can’t change, even if I wanted to. I am me and I just need to be me.”

CHAPTER 2

People who are gay get harrassed every day and sometimes people hate gay people. The boy thought about being gay and liking other boys and realised that this isn’t bad. The boy felt that his body and mind was against him and the boy felt like he was different. He felt like everyone and everything was turning against him.

CHAPTER 3

As the boy was getting harrassed at school he was filling up with hatred for himself, until one day when he saw that he wasn’t the only one who was gay. He realised that people are who they are and it doesn’t matter what anyone thinks. The boy just needed to be himself and if he wants to be gay that’s ok. He thought we have just got one life to live, so we should be ourselves and accept people if they’re gay, have a different religion or have different skin colour.

WE CAN’T CHANGE BECAUSE WE ARE WHO WE ARE.