Nathaniel in Bloomington, MN

At first glance, nobody would be able to tell that Nathaniel Jean had a problem. Or second glance, or third, or fourth.
After all, he had everything. He was a captain of his school's soccer team and one of the top players in the state. He had a big house and money to spend. He had family, he had friends, he had fun, he had faith.
He never meant for it to happen. He never wanted to look at another man in the way he should have been looking at a woman.
The idea had disgusted him for most of his life - living in a heavily Catholic town with heavily Catholic parents, homophobia was the only response he knew. That didn't change when he first realized that he didn't like girls.