Hi! My name is Channing Lee Mitchel and I am originally from Miami, Florida. I have moved here to Malibu to get away from my father as well as to go to school. I am attending UCM and studying journalism. I have only been in love once and that was with my girlfriend Windy. We dated throughout most of high school, but when school ended she started pressuring me to marry her. I didn't want to get married right away and eventually it got to the point that I didn't want to be around her. We broke up a month after we graduated. Now I am finding myself falling for my roommate, and yes, my roommate (Trent Young) is male. I have always found men attractive, but I have never acted on it. I know how my father would disapprove if I were to do something like that. He is a true man's man. He is homophobic like no body's business and he would never stand for his eldest son having a relationship with another man. At this point in my life I don't care what he thinks, of course there is a part of me deep down inside that worries about what he thinks, but this is my life and I am learning I can do what I want in it. I have to be able to live my life and make mistakes that is the only way I'll grow and learn. I have one younger brother named Christopher Ian Mitchel, he is 19. He graduated high school last year and is trying to decide where he wants to attend college. Father of course wants him to attend UM (University of Miami), where he went. (I went there a year but couldn't take father always breathing down my neck) I have talked to Chris a little about coming out to California and going to UCM, he said he'd think about it. When I was in high school I played a lot of sports, football, soccer and I played a season or two of hockey. I was on my way to a football scholarship when I was injured during a game. The injury pretty much blew my chances for that and ever playing football again. It's okay really, I enjoyed playing but more than anything I was doing it to make my father happy, but it didn't work. No matter the championships I won he would always find fault with something. I could never do anything right by him. Now I am living on my own, standing on my own two feet and doing what I want to do; and it feels great! I am excited to see where life is going to take me.

My roommate and boyfriend Trent Young, and the man I find I am falling for more and more each day.


My baby brother, Chris. RIP April 15th, 2007