Out of the Closet

Written and Directed by Peter Pike.  Music composed by Peter Pike.  Animated using Xtranormal software.

Note: This was modified slightly from a longer piece originally published May 27, 2008 on Triablogue .

Script

This is probably the most difficult video I’ve ever had to do. Not because the words are hard, but because I’ve had to come to grips with something about my nature. About who I am.

I remember when I was a young boy, I played a game of chess against another boy about my age. After his opening move (Pawn to A4), I felt the beginnings of…well, something inside me. I knew that there was something “wrong” with this feeling, but as the game progressed it only got stronger. Seven moves later, after I checkmated him, I told him exactly how I felt.

He punched me in the nose and called me a slur. Since then, I’ve lived a double life, afraid to come out and be who I really am.

It appears that the truth has a way of coming out anyway. Despite my best efforts at hiding it, several bloggers have discovered the truth. And while I tried to laugh off their attempts to ridicule me and pretend it wasn’t true, I realize now that this has only harmed my self-image. I must come out of the closet. And so, publicly, I now reveal to everyone my deepest secret.

I am smarter than you.