Submitted by Sean (not verified) on Thu, 05/29/2008 - 8:29pm.
I was a cheerleader my senior year. I wish that I had done it sooner, but I couldn't be more happy with the decision to go through a year of pain, agony, and hell, to get semi-good at lifting talented women, and tumbling. However my career in cheerleading was put to a screetching hault, when I got into a bicycle accident in Aug '06. I was on my local All-Star cheerleading team, and was biking home from practice, when I was violently thrusted into the pavemtent, due to my chain snapping. I broke three bones in my face, and had to have reconstructive surgery, I was unrecognizable on the right side of my face, before the surgery. I was unable to cheer for a month, and by that time, I was unable to get back onto the team, due to a loss of skills. So I have been out of practice for a year and a half, but am excited to say that I will begin cheering again in the Fall for a college in Kansas. Their team, I've heard is not all that great, but I am going help to change that, and if it's not changeable, then I will better myself as a male cheeleader. I hope that by the time I am a sophomore that I will be able to try out and recieve a scholarship for cheer, for the remaining three years of my eligiblity.
Anyway my point is, I'm gay, but I'll tell you, not all guys who cheerlead are gay. I was the only cheerleader out of the 8 from my school that I knew, who was gay. And does it really matter? If you're straight and you know it, who cares?
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I was a cheerleader my senior year. I wish that I had done it sooner, but I couldn't be more happy with the decision to go through a year of pain, agony, and hell, to get semi-good at lifting talented women, and tumbling. However my career in cheerleading was put to a screetching hault, when I got into a bicycle accident in Aug '06. I was on my local All-Star cheerleading team, and was biking home from practice, when I was violently thrusted into the pavemtent, due to my chain snapping. I broke three bones in my face, and had to have reconstructive surgery, I was unrecognizable on the right side of my face, before the surgery. I was unable to cheer for a month, and by that time, I was unable to get back onto the team, due to a loss of skills. So I have been out of practice for a year and a half, but am excited to say that I will begin cheering again in the Fall for a college in Kansas. Their team, I've heard is not all that great, but I am going help to change that, and if it's not changeable, then I will better myself as a male cheeleader. I hope that by the time I am a sophomore that I will be able to try out and recieve a scholarship for cheer, for the remaining three years of my eligiblity.
Anyway my point is, I'm gay, but I'll tell you, not all guys who cheerlead are gay. I was the only cheerleader out of the 8 from my school that I knew, who was gay. And does it really matter? If you're straight and you know it, who cares?