December 2011
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Bits and pieces of my coming out story.
Well, wow, now that I think about it, there really is a lot to tell. “Yellow” by Coldplay is on right now, inspiring me as I write this. Hopefully this doesn’t come out too badly.
As I look back, I realize that some beautiful thing in the sky was trying to tell me about the complexities of my sexuality. Sometimes I found myself watching the guy more than the girl in those sappy...
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It's So UNROMANTIC
A few months ago i decided to confess to my crush that i’m gay. This crush, is also my bestfriend…..
me: I have a confession, but don’t be mad okay?
her: Okay, tell me…
me: I’m gay
her: Just that? Well, I’m not surprised
me: eh? you knew?
her: yeah. it’s obvious, i even know whom you’re crushing on
me: /nervous/
her: it’s me...
I told my mom at the curtain store I was invited to a gay party this lesbian friend of mine was having. She said but you’re not gay are you? and I said well kind of , I just like everyone… she said okay and asked me how I knew if I never had I boyfriend, and I just said I did have a boyfriend and I told her who it was, then she said she didn’t like him very much, and I said me...
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How my brother outed me to my father. At...
My brother, my father and I were casually eating our ice cream at McDonalds, talking about god knows what, I don’t remember. And we got on the subject of the LGBT community, and my father goes: “My god, I hate dykes. They’re just rude and nasty and…manly…” (My dads the rich snobby type :P) And so my brother, decides to go “Oh, I think this is a good time...
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As it turns out...
I’d been nervous for a long time about coming out as a lesbian but last month I came out to a group of my closest friends while shopping. Completely accidentally.
We were in a shop which sold THE MOST WONDERFUL scarves and other accesories (But mostly the scarves) and I picked out a gorgeous rainbow one and put it on, joking that it was “fabulously fabulous” but I was hesitant...
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My coming out story is supernatural.What.
My mom is somewhat into tarot cards and some light forms of adivination,nothing really obscure.
She has frequented LOTS of diviners since she started to suspect my dad was cheating on her (long story short,he was,and him leaving the house was actually a decisive factor in the improvement of our father/son relationship,the ease of my coming-out process and helped me to open up to everyone in my...
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SECRET COMING
just sent an ask to one of my best friends coming out as… well I really don’t like labels but I guess pan would fit in my case. All my friends are pro-LGBT and yet I was shaking while writing the damn message, I came out via msn to another good friend a few months ago and she was just lovely about it. Next step are my other close friends (about 3 or 4) and a childhood friend who...
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Frankly unexpected.
Everyone but my mother knew. I accepted the fact that I am, indeed, an androgynous and raging bulldyke at the beginning of my ninth grade year (give or take 5, six years ago). When I told my dad he nodded, said “Oh, yeah. Well, at least you won’t get pregnant.” When I told my mom? She flipped her shit. Things couldn’t have been worse at the time. Until she came to me...
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When I finally tole my brother before Thanksgiving
We went to Dunkin Donuts a day or two after this guy I’ve been seeing went home from visiting for the weekend. For all intents and purposes, he was my “friend” to my brothers that weekend.
Him: Can I have a sip of your coffee?
Me: No, you like your coffee like you like your men. Black.
Him: Yeah? Well you like your coffee like you like YOUR men. Mocha or something.
Me:...
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When I came out to my mom as transgender, the first thing she said was, “Just because you think you’re a boy now doesn’t mean you can walk around campus alone at night!!” …Thanks, mom?
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No One Will Ever Accept You
So, I came out to my parents last year. It was like, the worst possible time for me to come out. I had been with the same man for seven years, married for four. The last three years of it had been painful, it came out that we didn’t have anything in common, he tried to force me to like things he did, him and our roommate constantly put me down because of my gender. I am an artist and a...
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"I’m not sure who all knows I’m not in the...
I stumbled upon this beautiful Tumblr just today after typing out my own “coming out” entry in my own just last night! [Or ass early in the morning rather, hahah] So, I figured I’d share my story and what I wrote! It’s sort of a coming out story mixed with a re-coming out announcement. Hahahah! Just in case any of my friends were clueless XD <3 Here it is:
“It...
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I’m 20, and after finally admitting to myself and then accepting myself as a lesbian i figured i would be so much happier after coming out (which i am).
First i told my sister, who is really cool about it. Although i didn’t so much as tell her, more she told me.
Then my friends who have all pretty much said “doesn’t surprise me” or “that makes...
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this is copied from an old post of mine
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few know that i was forced to come out by my dad, and my mom found out by reading my tumblr a year later (hey mom! you promised you werent reading this!) but one of the best experiences i had when i came out was completely unexpected, but very welcome.
I was talking to my grandmother over coffee one day,
and I was complaining about how “hunny” (you know her as shinytumbles) was...
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A Funny Reversal
Coming out to my family was a rather simple affair. My parents, grandparents, both uncles and their wives, my aunt, cousins, brother and I all live within 5 minutes of each other. We see each other all of the time, and I knew their love for me wouldn’t change. I told them when I was 19/20; it didn’t change anything (as is typical with gay men, my father was the hardest).
My biggest...
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Coming out was both the worst and best day of my life.
I can remember it like it was yesterday, and it still makes me want to vomit upon thought. It’s dreadful, but it’s dreadfully true and I refuse to lie about who or how I am.
I got caught with my girlfriend at school.
We were skipping a class together. And although there have been many, very delightful rumors about it, we were...
The biggest mistake
I’m Jake, and I am a 20 year old Junior in College. I came out at the end of my freshman year of college, after my cousin asked me one day if I was gay. It was the biggest shock in entire life, that some one would just ask, but honestly thinking back, I have never been more grateful for the little push that she gave me. You see, I figured out that I was gay freshman year of high school,...
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My mom and I where inside the car, it was night time and there was a lot of traffic so we were just sitting in confortable silence. She suddenly turned to me with a worried expression and said “Honey, u know u can tell me anything right?” I looked at her with a weirded out expression.
“Are you a lesbian?”
me: “Why do u think that?”
“I just… u are...
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Four times tripleal came out.
First time: Going Home
I was driving home from my junior high with my mom and she mentioned how a patient of her passed away with many women around him, and he would have loved that. I said I would have too, and after she seemed confused after my saying I’m not gay, I clarified that I like all genders.
Second time: A Helping Hand
I was in my Video Production class with my best friend J....
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Trying to come out to parents again
I decided to post this message as I have found that everyone’s story is quite unique, and I hope to reach people that may be in a similar situation. Also, perhaps my perspective may benefit those who are planning to come out to their family. I came out to myself when I was 25 (8 years ago), and soon after that I was out to my friends and coworkers, of whom I only received positive...
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A spin on Pride (In The Name of Love)
How do I retain respect for people who would say their own blood relative can’t marry the one she loves? Sure, they ‘accept’ that they’re together- but the thought of gays sharing -gasp- some of the same rights as heterosexual couples and getting to use the term marriage is beyond them- because of their religion. What kind of religion teaches that non-hetereosexual...
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My coming out.
I’m Daniel a 13 year old Icelander. The first person i came out to was my good friend, Gabriel. I came out to him in the end of last summer. We where playing video games and because a was been planing to tell him sooner or later i told him to pause the game and he did then the i said: Dude i need to tell you something…. He said in a funny-ish, non-serius way: Are you gay. And i...
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LIKES GIRLS
I’ve tried almost every different way of communication there is to come out.
When it was my brother, I left him a note “Im gay, have a good day.”
I’ve texted it, I’ve emailed it, and done the face to face admitting it too (I’ve always found this way the most awkward to begin with but the best way in the long run because its then easier to talk about...
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My friends' responses to my coming out
My best friend Alex, who’s a girl, who then proceeded to tell me that I was the absolute last person to know I was gay.
Me: So um… would you be shocked if I was gay?
Alexandra: Are you kidding? (looks at me confusedly) I’d be shocked if you weren’t.
Me: Oh. Well that’s good to know I guess?
Alex: So would our entire grade.
Me: O.O No way… Really?
Alex:...
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The more full coming out
I remember distinctively getting crushes on boys my age in eighth grade. There were a couple of close friends I definitely got attached to. But I also remember being the nephew of the youth choir director at my church. I was very involved with the church group, and at that time they weren’t at all discriminatory. My middle school group was unbelievably accepting, but my middle school was not. I...
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Sometimes, it would have been better to stay in.
I was 16. I came out to my mom, she was my best friend at the time. I told her I was gay, and the first thing that came out of her mouth was ‘how are you going to have kids?’
She told my sister, who said it was a phase. She told my father, who never spoke to me about it, and she told my brother who on more than one occasion has admitted he is homophobic.
It’s been three years...
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So I was in this pub/restaurant/chain of things? It used to be cheap, anyways, and a good way to get my little brother to eat vegetables. My dad was ill (very common back then, still kind of common) so I was in there and I must have been about 15? 14 maybe?
I’d been dating this girl for a while, and actually I’d already told my sister but I tell her everything so I guess it...
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Me: Dad, I’m a lesbian.
Dad: Okay. Let’s play Angry Birds.
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Went Better Than Expected
For starters, I’m male, bisexual, and gender-queer.
I first came out to my mom when I was 14, thinking she would be good about it since I live in the most liberal house for miles. Anyways it went okay, she didn’t freak out or anything. What did happen was my mom telling me all about how I was confused and was just going through a phase, pretty typical stuff from what my friends have...
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I came out to my parents 4 years ago and got a decently negative response from them (I say “decently” because it wasn’t horrific but my dad, in particular, said some hurtful stuff). I kind of let the coming out process ride its course and if people knew, then they knew. The only person that it was intentionally kept from was my sister (it was one of the things my mom asked/told...
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Best thing I could've done for myself.
Hi, my name is Joel. I came out my freshman year of high school. I’m 24 now and believe that coming out to my friends and family was one of the biggest accomplishments I’ve achieved. I’ve gained many supportive friends and family members. It was an easy process for me because I guess everyone else knew but me. I don’t know HOW everyone knew, owning 3 versions of...
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How My Sister Found Out...
So, I was shopping with my sister way back in October for some clothes and as we were walking through the bedding part of Kohl’s, she casually says, “Well, you need some nice clothes for your partner—when you get one.”
And that alone just stunned me and she then said, “So, you’re Bisexual, right? Dad told me.” And our shopping went on as normal and in my...