While I'm certainly more at peace than what I was in the past, it still haunts me quite a bit even to this day. Less so the event and more the injustice of the whole thing.

At least I didn't receive the same fate as another 14 year old kid who died after being gay bashed a couple years previous in our capital city.

There's still a lot extremist homophobes out there: fanatical Christians, fanatical Muslims, Nazis or even gang members (as the people who raped me were influenced by US gang culture and rap music).

So it freaks me out when young people are encouraged to come out at a very young age; like the danger isn't there still. Particularly when kids think that they are invaluable at that age.