Where Oh Where Would I Be? -- reflecting about Ladson, South Carolina

I don't know where I'd be if I had felt safe and secure enough to have COME OUT (as a young boy of 12, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 years old) way back when I lived in Ladson, South Carolina.  That place, along with Goose Creek, was a hell of it own to endure!  That was way back in 1967-1972. I had not used terms like "gay," "queer," "homosexual," in reference to myself.  I didn't even know what such terms meant.  I did know about my dreams!  Yea, I did!  I kept them to myself!