Nick De Leon

I was born 1996 in Green Bay, Wisconsin to parents that were conservative Christians, my life adds that splash of color on the family’s white canvas. rnI’m a junior at NEW Lutheran High School in Green Bay. At the school I’m a basketball manager for the NEW Lutheran Blazers basketball team (Wisconsin’s Division 5 runner up in the WIAA for 2010, 2013 and 2014), and an artist. I was nominated for Senior Representative for student council. rnI also usher, sing, and sometimes lead youth group and Sunday school at my church. rnAnd to also mention my best gift from God, I help Christian youth that are part of the LGBT community both at school and online.

God given me the gift to love both men/women by creating me as a bisexual and to preach that ALL of us are loved no matter sexual or gender orientation. I’m blessed that my current boyfriend Dylan and my friend Kyra support me in a world full of confusion and barriers that have no purpose.

God loves everyone no matter who we love or what gender we are. Despite barriers made by those who judge with cold hearts, it’s best to assure that when Jesus died on the cross, he died for ALL sins no matter written in stone or washable marker.

As of recently I noticed throughout my childhood I always had homo/bisexual tendencies as early as age 6. In kindergarten I frequently hung out with the girls in class despite being told of their “cooties”. Not only that but up til I was 8 years old I had played with my sisters Barbie’s just like any girl would. I always had great friendships with women as a kid, but was just until I turned 12 when I started having my first crushes on them. Even though I make great friends with women, I don’t however make myself a potential boyfriend. When I turned 13, guys have made fun of me for one of my crushes by making up a rumor that I was gay. It caused me great depression that lead to a pornography addiction that lasted til I was 15 and a half years old. I not only watched content that featured girls, but rarely men as well. rnWhen I started high school I became friends with a lesbian couple that I hung out with in my freshmen year. The two have introduced me the opportunity to be part of Preble’s Gay Straight Alliance organization, but I turned it down cause I wanted to privately be an LGBT activist. Sometime in my sophmore year of high school, I transferred from Preble to NEW Lutheran to study there. rnI never came to know that I was bisexual until after Super Bowl XLVIII when I learned my favorite band the Red Hot Chilli Peppers performed naked in some concerts. I gotten curious and Googled pictures of this and noticed myself getting aroused from it, than I asked myself “am I really gay?” Since then my head was spinning as I noticed my sexual interest in both genders. It took some research and a question on Yahoo Answers only to realize that I am bisexual. Still my head spun faster until I had guts to come out to my English teacher Mrs. Phelps. Since then I openly came out as a bisexual on February 26, 2014. rnAlthough it has been a short time since I came out bi, I entered my first same-sex relationship with my best friend Dylan on April 12, 2014. Also I gained support from my friend Kyra whom I got to know is an activist for LGBT rights. Things are great for me as a bisexual and I am beyond amazed to know that there is a growing community at NEW Lutheran High School. Since I became the first openly bi student and member of the varsity Blazers basketball team, I had influenced more students to come out at the school and redevelop NEW as a fairly accepting school for LGBT youth.

Being in a conservative environment of homophobes, Catholics, and Lutherans who judge or make dirty remarks are the cold sores of being bi. Sometimes people make fun of my relationship with my current boyfriend or that I am called harsh words that would put me to tears.

Having the opportunity to experience a relationship in multiple perspectives and getting dating advice from both men and women to improve my relationships. Not only that, but getting the chance to tell those in the LGBT community that they are given the free ticket to heaven through faith in Jesus Christ (read Galatians 3:28).

My boyfriend Dylan – Has given me comfort through good times and bad. Without him I would not have my day made through his great humor and his caring heart when I feel like I would fall down in deep agony. rnMy friend Kyra – For proving to me that there are straight allies in Christianity that will support LGBT rights in a nation divided with yes and no. rnMy teachers Mrs. Phelps and Mr. McClellan – Who didn’t judge me when I came out bisexual for the first time despite their views on homosexuality and allowing me to express my own theological views.