Gay Puerto Rican Man Learns To Embrace Both His Sexuality And His Ethnicity. “I Feel More Balanced.”

William Perez had a lot of ups and downs in college, from failing classes and, at one point, getting expelled, to trying to fit in as both a gay man and a person of color in a predominantly straight, affluent, white environment. This feeling of other-ness was compounded when he began a relationship around that time with a man whose upbringing was, in many ways, the polar opposite of his. Only when that relationship ended over a decade later and another began did William truly find the confidence to embrace all aspects of his identity. More first-person LGBTQ stories: http://imfromdriftwood.com/ I'm From Driftwood on Facebook:   / imfromdriftwood   I'm From Driftwood on Instagram:   / imfromdriftwood   I'm From Driftwood on Twitter:   / imfromdriftwood