http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/news/114578200182040.xml&coll=2Johnathan Lamarr Terry Jr. had concealed encounters with boys since the sixth grade.
So when he started going to a local youth center that caters to gay boys and girls, the 18-year-old from Cleveland's Hough neighborhood told his tough-guy friends he was looking to beat people up.
As he mingled with the people he promised to bash, he started shedding his "boy stuff." Then last summer, as the pressure of lying to his mother started to build, he told everyone he was gay. Some cousins were outraged. One wanted to fight him. But his friends and mother accepted him, he said.
"It brought us closer together," Terry said about his relationship with his mother.
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