When did you come out?

[apretty]

Originally Posted by ALittleStar4You

I haven't come out-but All your stories were very inspiring. Thank you. (And I am 30)

you'll do it when you're ready, until then find a good support system. <3

[chefhottie25]

when i was a sophmore in high school. i was dating rome overmeyer...and i slept with my spanish teacher...well she was actually a student teacher. when i broke the news to rome he said his mom thought i was gay(she was a lesbian)...it all worked out, i got an A in spanish and rome and i became good friends. he was very supportive, and so was my family.

[Rook]

I think the very first time I came out to anyone...Was to my brother, we were sitting on the top of a basketball Goal backboard, it was night, and yeah we were being evil lil peeping toms...
Keep in mind, I was 13, he was 11...
I'm not sure what I said, when he had this baffled dumb glance and said "I don't get it, you're a girl, how can u like other girls boobs?', took me a moment and I shrugged sayin 'I just do, always did like girls, if u like 'em why can't i?'
He shrugged and we proceeded to make stupid noises, and got shooed off the Court...

Years later, I was about 17-ish after I figured he totally forgot, I sat on his bed, tried refreshing his memory and after getting tired of the blank stare, I came out...again...He said "I always figured it was a phase, maybe u just haven't met the right guy?"
I shook my head telling him there's no way I'd be with a guy, there's no attraction, no inclination nothing that feels the way I do deep inside when with an intelligent beautiful gal, to this day he continues to hold to his bet that I'll find the "perfect Man" -snort-
Couple days later, I came out to my mother after she poked n prodded cuz I wasn't eating, or sleeping well....
After 2 years of really ugly spats, she and I sat down and she said "It wasn't so much the fact you are a lesbian, but rather, all those years...and those fake boyfriends u brought to me, it was the Lying that hurt me the most..I was raised a certain way, give me time, for now I'm just..tolerating this."
Our rel. has improved since then though....
Granted, Everyone else in the very big...Family spectrum found out thanks to my brothers big-ass mouth....
After my uncle called and told me my father was on the first plane to Puerto Rico to find out for himself, I slammed his ass to the wall and told him "dont ever think I will trust u again, especially if this goes really bad for me"....
And it did...-shrug-

[homoe]

I was NEVER in! It's been pretty obvious I'm a dyke so ...LOL

[Tuff Stuff]

I could never hide it from anyone,either..the fact I was a baby butch...and I definitely sure as hell can't hide it today.I liked girls at an early age and I never came out,I was who I was...my whole family knew what I was..besides,being queer kind of runs in my family's DNA.

[JDeere]

I would say i verbally came out at 17. But people knew before hand. I came out as trans about 3 years ago.

[FieryRedhead]

I was 15-16 and in High School. I had boyfriends and crushes on boys, had no idea what homosexual was. I had heard the words dyke, fairy, fag but just knew they were words people used to make fun of people.

After moving to another state and being completely distraught, a girl at my new school befriended me. As time went by I began to realize that I only wanted to spend time with her. One day she told me she had feelings for me. I had to go home and sit in my room to try and sort out exactly what I was feeling. It hit me that I felt the same way about her. Once I was introduced to other lesbians I felt like I was home. It was 1976-77.