Positive changes
Dec 12, 2021
2 minutes
AROHA AWARAU
I was 14 when I submitted my first column to the Listener. It began with the words “Because I was born with a penis”, and it went on to describe the pressures and expectations I felt as a then-closeted gay teenager surviving in a masculine world in the early 90s.
At the time, I attended a boarding school for Māori
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