In this painting I have tried to represent the way in which friends and family re-asses your life if you come out. Many of my family members have looked back on my childhood and totally changed their views on my behavior, the things I liked to do, the toys I liked to play with and such like, just because I came out when I was 20. I had not only become a different person  NOW, but apparently their experiences of me as a child were somehow a charade, my whole history had changed, been revised in an instant. It is also about how gay people are treated as adults, as if we were never children ourselves, like we just arrived as fully adult people, disconnected from 'normal' people who had 'normal' childhoods. Our histories become coloured by the views of other people.