I’m gay, and If you’re reading this, you’re the first person to really witness those words coming from me. I’ve always been careful about how I act around others, what I say, and how I conduct daily life because of this fact about myself. What is difficult for me is not the pursuance of living with the fact I am gay but rather the predicament I am in due to this same fact. I came to the University of Colorado Boulder in order to transcend this barrier that has been created by myself in conjunction with the environment I am in. This environment starts at home, and although I love my mother dearly, she straddles the line between acceptance and condemnation. Which, I understand, is bipolar. However, the reason I still haven’t “come out” to my …show more content…
This same reason is why I wanted to live on campus at the University of Colorado Boulder, to escape, to be myself, or at least attempt to be myself… whoever I am. However, what I had found is that although this university claims to be a diverse place, it in fact has protected the heteronormative, white, affluent culture behind the Flatiron mountain range. What I have come to realise is that my dreams of studying government and then law for the sole purpose of eradicating education inequity will be meaningless due to the lack of foundation in a diverse understanding of the issues at hand. My difficulty with the University of Colorado Boulder is not my dissent towards the university wholly but the surrounding factors I have taken into account. Upon my first semester I was enthralled with the information and theories presented to me by my professors of political science, it was in these classrooms that I solidified my intent to make an impact in the lives of others. However, this dogma, even though it still burns bright in me today, is often shadowed by the goals and other distractions set by the students who I learn