He lived in a rural area where homosexuality is still taboo, and suffered from the fact that he could not live his homosexuality openly and – until he reached the age of 18 – could not enter into any fulfilling sexual relationship with an adult partner without having a fear of exposing that person to criminal prosecution.
He lived in a place where homosexuality is still considered taboo, and this caused him to suffer from the fact that he could not live openly as gay and was unable to engage in fulfilling sexual relationships with adults without fear of criminal prosecution until he reached the age of 18.