My first gay kiss
I’m Tirrell and I’m from Atlanta, Georgia.
Before moving to Georgia, I lived in Hawaii until I was 15. Growing up in Hawaii, it was unlike, it was a bit isolated, I didn’t include a lot of gay friends, I didn’t own any gay friends actually. I didn’t really realize anybody who was gay but I knew that I was gay. I had a friend who I had known since probably 7th grade. We went through middle college into high school together and I definitely had a crush on him, I just never really, it was just enjoy I really liked him, I didn’t know if he was gay, we never talked about it, I never even allow that part of me really out. We were on dance teams together, I guess I should have known he was gay then, but, we were on dance tutor together, we ran track, we did a lot of sports together so I was always sleeping over at his dwelling, and there would be times that I would be over there spending the night wishing something would happen, anything, a kiss, just him telling me, like, you understand, high school boy’s fantasy I guess.
I would declare it was a couple weeks before I moved to Georgia, it was the summer
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A continuous breeze floated through the open window on that mid-July night. It was 2005, and I was fourteen years aged, sitting on my bedroom floor next to my only male friend. His name was Nick. He was a year older and half a foot taller than me, but had the same shaggy, brown hair I sported. We were a month away from our first day of high institution, and at that indicate, had known each other for about two years.
We’d never spent time alone before, but on this warm summer evening, we found ourselves in such a situation. We had spent the evening with a mutual female ally, bouncing from my noun to the nearby adj park and back again. However, she left us to chase after a guy she was interested in, and we were left to spend the rest of the evening together–alone.
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You might have seen the viral video of 20 complete strangers who were asked to kiss someone they’d never met in front of a camera.
The video became an instant online sensation, capturing the raw reactions of people when they go in for that ‘first kiss’.
The New Zealand AIDS Foundation ‘Love Your Condom’ campaign created their own version featuring 10 gay guys, in an effort to promote safe sex between gay and bisexual men.
Using the same setting as the original, they captured the whole ‘first kiss’ package from the awkwardness of having to verb the ice to the sensuality of the kisses themselves.
Watch the clip and the original below: