When I Came Out...

My favorite coming-out moment was over this past summer. 

There was this boy I was friends with, we’d been hanging out and talking about math and minecraft and such. We had started this thing where we’d make that’s-what-she-said jokes out of everything we said to each other. It went on for a few days, and then one day we were walking to lunch together and he points to this boy walking in front of us and cracks some kind of sex joke. 

I looked at him and said, “No Nate, that doesn’t work.”

“What are you talking about, of course it works.”

Somewhat awkwardly, I explained…

“Well… let’s just say if that was a girl in front of us, it’d work.”

Nate starts laughing. 

“THANK YOU for being a lesbian!” he shouts, and finishes as I look at him perplexedly, “Now I can make twice the that’s-what-she-said jokes!”

I tried to explain to him that he doesn’t get any more jokes than before, because he can’t make the heterosexual ones. Bet he wished I’d said I was bi. But he insisted on making both, so we went with that for the rest of the summer. 

We actually became really close; we would even hang out to talk about our girlfriends. Our relationship is kind of like a stereotypical “gay best friend” relationship, only the gay one is the girl not the guy :)

He’s the first straight person with whom I felt completely, entirely comfortable about my sexuality and being open about it. I’ve experienced a lot of rejection and I’m so grateful for his (and all my friends’) calm acceptance. 

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