QOTD 2/16
Happy Friday Everyone!! I'm going to hit you with a few questions this morning, but they are all related. I love learning about you this way.
How old were you when you first came out?
19
Who was the first person you came out to?
My friend Janet. Who said "Yeah, I know. So what? What took you so long to tell me?" I need to reconnect with her. She was so cool.
If a parent wasn't the first person, how old when you came out to a parent?
I was 24.
Who's next. Please share.
Rachelle
I was... 23 when I came out. I had known for about 3 years how I felt, and accepted the label. I went to a conference of the American Medical Student Association (I was in med school at the time), and spent the weekend sneaking into the lectures and meetings sponsored by the Lesbian Gay and Bisexual People in Medicine committee (AMSA is, and always has been, very liberal). I was sneaking because I didn't want anyone from my school to see me. I suppose you could say those were the first people I came out to, and some of them are still friends of mine today. I went to my first gay bar that weekend, too. I came back to school, met again with some of the friends I had made, and about a month later, showed up in class one morning wearing a Don't Panic! t-shirt reading "I Can't Even Think Straight" - and made sure the 3 biggest gossips in class knew exactly what it meant. My friend Mark commented that I didn't just come out of the closet, I kicked it down and burned it...
How old were you when you first came out?
I was never really "in" so I never had to "come out", I was lucky enough to grow up with a very cool mom (single parent) and I was very heavily involved in the theater in high school and it was almost natural that everyone just kinda dated and screwed around with everyone else...(yeah, we were an odd little bunch)
Who was the first person you came out to?
Probably my Dad, while my Mom didn't really care either way, he is very religious (born again Christian) and so that warranted an actual discussion
If a parent wasn't the first person, how old when you came out to a parent?
I was 21, had the discussion when I decided to move in with my partner
How old were you when you first came out?
I was really never in. I can remember WAY back thinking that men were the most fascinating creatures. I was always trying to get an eyeful. I would have made Tim Hardaway very uncomfortable in the lockerroom. I had a name for what I was around 8 years old and I remember thinkin it was quite cool.
Who was the first person you came out to?
My best friend Simone, from kindergarten on. She sang Blue Bayou in music class in third grade and I knew then she would be my hag. And she still is to this day despite living in Seattle and having her own life! Oh...and of course I was "out" to the boys I hung out with, if you get my drift.
If a parent wasn't the first person, how old when you came out to a parent?
I was 17 when I had the formal discussion with my mom, but by then it was really just a formality. I had re-decorated the whole second floor of our house by then and I had lots of "company" in my room! My mother was not pleased to have it out in the open and is still not to this day.
Damn... you young ones had it so much easier - LOL. Actually, always makes me feel good when I hear that it has become at least a little easier since I came out way back in the 70s. I sometimes work with younger guys now who were out and dating, with parents support, in their early teens - kind of having normal teenage dating lives - and that I LOVE hearing those stories!
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