Last Edited on:

11/03/98

    Here is the obligatory "Personal Information" page.                                                                                                                                               

Background Info on ME:

I was born May 11, 1973 in Augusta, GA to a psychiatrist and head nurse of psychiatry, which probably explains a great deal about my overall personality.  I attended private schools up through high school and then started at Davidson College.  It was way too expensive, so I transferred to the University of Georgia after my freshman year.   That was probably one of the more important decisions in my life.  At UGA, I was exposed to many new social and political ideas.  It was also there that I "discovered" that I was gay.  I had known all my life that I was gay.   I guess that I was at the point in my life that I was ready to deal with it. 

It turns out that most of my close friends already suspected, so it wasn't any shock to them.  I guess I was unusually fortunate that I haven't lost friendships because of my sexual orientation.  Still it is always difficult, no matter what your situation is like.  Most of my childhood and teenage years had been fraught with sadness and depression.  My junior year in high school I became so depressed that I began "creating" physical ailments to avoid stress.   When that ran out, I eventually tried to commit suicide by taking an overdose of sleeping pills.  Luckily for me, although I didn't think so at the time, I was found and treated.  It really wasn't until I accepted my sexual orientation that things began to get better. 

Since that time, I graduated from college and am graduating from the Medical College of Georgia in May of 1999.  My plan is to go into a combination of neurology and psychiatry called Neuropsychiatry.  The biggest areas of interest for me are teen suicide, depression, and sexual orientation(gee, what a surprise, huh?).  In addition, I am also very interested in sexual abuse and eating disorders(many of my friends and a couple of roommates have had problems with these).  Furthermore, I have also had personal experience with breast cancer with some of my family and friends' mothers. 

I have found that most teens don't have people to talk to about these things.  All these things add even more stress to everyday teenage stress.  I know they did for me.  You've got to deal with most people telling you that you're sick and an abomination, with disappointing parents, losing friends, suffering discrimination, and unfortunately, violence.   We also have to deal with the fact that there aren't many role models.  When most people think of lesbians, they consider them all to be man-haters, mechanics, etc.  When they think of gay men, they think of hairstylists, interior decorators, florists.  Each of these professions is a wonderful career; however, I have found that many people assume that they cannot do anything else.  (I have seen so many people who had ambitions to be doctors, lawyers, architects, etc. who lost all ambition after "becoming gay.")  That's the main reason for creating this page - hopefully I can share my experiences with teens and their parents.    I hope to give people alternatives to the "gay stereotype."  I have to preface this statement with the following: a) I am not a doctor, yet anyway.   I can only share my own experiences and those of other people who have agreed to share their stories.  b) There are as many different types of gay people as there are straight people.  I am not a spokesperson for the "gay community."  I only represent an individual, not a group. 

Enough of that!  Anyway, more about who I am.

My Hobbies:    Computing, photography, magic(yes, like David Copperfield . . . okay, I said it.), dancing, collecting yellow rubber duckies(don't ask unless you REALLY want to know!)

My Musical Interests: Pretty much everything. Opera is my least favorite.  I like a little Disco, 80's pop(even Tiffany), techno(from it's predecessors Thrill Kill Cult to Hyperon Experience to 808 State and on to the current DJ ICEY[PS I am sure he is wonderful, but I don't like Roni Size or Goldie]) and  . . .  Then there's country(Bryan White, Reba McIntyre, Wynnona, and quite a few others). Rap -INOJ, Genuine, Queen Latifah.  I'm sure there are others, but you probably aren't interested.  PS - I really don't like Barbara Streisand or Liza Minnelli(I probably didn't even spell their names right.)

My Profession: Neuropsychiatrist(in the not too distant future)

My Stats(God, I hate that word - I feel like a race horse):  (SEE PHOTO ABOVE.)

        Ht: 5'11"

       Wt.: 152 lbs

        Hair: Brown, short

       Eyes: Green with this satanic yellow ring around the pupil

       Skin: I'm the whitest boy on the planet.  I like the natural look - yeah(AKA, I can't tan to save my life.)

Favorite Food: Candy, any kind, except those funky necklace things that you eat so that when you're done, you've got a tight piece of elastic wrapped around your neck(Who thought of that anyway?)

Personal Habits: I don't smoke, drink, do drugs, or eat mushrooms(There's just something about eating fungus that disturbs me.)  I don't really care if other's drink socially, now mushrooms on the other hand. . .

Dating Status: Single

Disposition:  That depends.  If you're shy, I'm outgoing.  If you're outgoing, I'm shy, at least in social situations.  After looking over this page, I also seem to have some unnatural obsession with (parentheses.)

Books:  I have to admit, I'm old fashioned.  I like the old classics.  I don't get into the new stuff much.  I do like fantasy, though. (Especially, David and Leigh Eddings' Belgariad and Mallorean pentalogies(is that a word?)

Movies:   Like'em all except for westerns.  Really big horror movie buff as well as sci-fi(Yes, yet another Star Trek Junkie on the Net).  A few really good "gay" movies are Beautiful Thing, Go Fish!, Maurice, and The Amazingly True Adventures of Two Girls in Love.

TV : I'm addicted.

Favorite Place to Visit: Edinborough, Scotland