What is Coming Out

"Coming out of the closet" describes the voluntary public announcement of one's (often homosexual or bisexual) sexual orientation, sexual attractions or gender identity. Being "out...

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I'm new, and just looking for support.

I need to announce to the world eventually what I am because I'm sick of living a lie. I need to be honest about who I am and what I want.

Right now...until the end of the week, here's my goal, and it's in my journal on my profile too...

I need to tell five people (that don't already know) the truth about my sexuality. If any one of these people tell anyone else, those they tell do not count as part of the five original ones. I want to accomplish this by the end of the week.

So far, I've already told three people, and it has nto always been pretty. My friend Chris accepted it and said it didn't matter to him.

The next person I've told was a classmate. It didn't phase her at all either.

Finally...there was this lady who works in the cafeteria I joke around with sometimes. She always says jokingly that I'm her boyfriend. Well, I just decided to go ahead and casually tell her that I already had a boyfriend. She flipped her lid and then proceeded to loudly proclaim that I was gay to the sorrounding cafeteria workers. She then proceeded to ask me why. I said, "because I was tired of living a lie, and I just was sick of missing out on who I was". She then said "well, are you going to miss being able to crap the right way?" At the same moment, some asswipe who's over on the side who's not even involved decides to say in his redneck as hell accent "boy, you know better than to go 'round switchin' sides". Oh...the South.

I am Jack's inflamed sense of public flogging and degradation.

Two to go...
Posted on 07/08/08, 07:07 pm
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Reply #1 - 07/08/08  11:05pm
" Good for you.

Even if the reaction you got had negative overtones you can't make ignorant people understand things they don't want to understand. You do more for yourself and the ones who matter to you by continuing to be who you've always been.

Maybe you should take a stool sample for show-and-tell so that she can understand that you crap the same way everyone else does. (I'm only joking...but it would be funny). "
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