Editors' Note: Projector Trey Malicoat sent in this Then & Now. If you'd like to participate too, send in your before and after photos and lists.

THEN:

1. I was a quirky kid who drove a 1973 orange WV Thing.
2. I was extremely creative and loved to paint, but was told that being an artist was too "gay".
3. I was a boy scout and hated everything about it except Johnny M who played the violin and was also creative.
4. I was a male cheerleader and convinced my friends I was one because I preferred touching girls rather than other guys (like my wrestling and football-playing friends).
5. My favorite classes were speech and drama because I could play other characters besides myself.
6. I became a youth minister and tried to "pray" the gay away.
7. I became a therapist to further understand how f*****up I was.
8. I married and had children because that was what I was supposed to do!
9. I saw everything in life through the lenses of shame.