My homecoming dance at Musselman - two weeks after the dance at Jem's school - was the big moment I revealed being gay to my school.

I posed the question by writing it on the dry erase board on his wall. That is where I asked him to be my boyfriend. It was a weird feeling for me, since I had just barely started coming out. I held his hand when we went to get refreshments and when we took breaks from dancing. It was my first school event where I was with another guy, even though we came to the dance separately. We both started the dance with our female friends who were our 'dates.' The final song came on and Jem and I danced for a brief time. We danced to ' Love Story' by Taylor Swift, which was a perfect song for my first dance with a guy. He was wearing his gray vest and pink bow tie while I had on my black shirt with a gold tie. We attend schools in different counties and met through friends and I was thrilled that he asked me to his dance so we could be together. Yet there we were, Jem and I, on an October night this fall, slow dancing with each other.