I tapped on his profile and saw that he was close. Probably a few houses down. Before I could even decide what to do next, I got a message notification. It was him.

"Dtf?" he asked.

I've never been with any man before. The gay groups I've been in always joked about headless profiles but surely no one would be deceptive enough or desperate enough to pretend to be someone else before meeting up with someone in real life, right?

I know what it's like to not be honest with myself. I've denied I was gay for years and even now that I'm confidently out, I still feel that religious shame that I was brought up. That's probably why I still had a cross above my bed. So I know this is why he would use a headless profile. Plus, his pic looked real enough. You can always tell if it's like a stock photo, right? His looked like it was taken in a bedroom. In fact, it actually seemed familiar. The...