<p>Hey. I'm a rising junior in a Catholic high school in a fairly conservative area. I'm considering coming out to a few people next year (I'm a lesbian), so I'm interested in hearing any coming out stories y'all would like to share. :D</p>
<p>um, well I know a bad one.. I don't know if you'd want to hear it</p>
<p>Bad ones are the kind I want to hear the most. x3 I want to know exactly what kind of disaster I could be setting myself up for.</p>
<p>Well this guy that was incredibly annoying and touchy with everyone came out to his mother and his mother disapproved so he made up a lie and said he was only kidding. and then the school found out, and most people didnt care but we have homophobes in my school so yeah, he got some **** from them. and one day.. he just never showed up again. I guess he's being homeschooled or something now and his profile sounds really depressing. I guess it depends on how you react to people's responses</p>
<p>i have several gay friends, and one of mine just came out last year. it was rather sudden, but everyone accepted him, he's doing great in life and he even has a steady boyfriend now. i guess people at my school are just more tolerant. plus he is a great friend, and we are all really close, so we supported him in his decision to come out.</p>
<p>Here's a bad one::</p>
<p>A friend of a friend told his family he was gay. His parents proceeded to get therapy for themselves and his sister. But not for him. His family has since essentially disowned him.</p>
<p>...sorry if that brings you down.</p>
<p>I wrote a persuasion paper for my teacher who I was very close to where I mentioned my sexuality. Assuming I was out in the open, he published it in the newspaper without asking (I was NOT out and NOT ready to be). I talked to him very seriously, and he apologized, but the dirt was out. I did a little damage control *****ing with people about this big misprint in the paper, and the few people that did catch it (it was pretty subtle) either believed me or forgot about it. I was really upset but it seems that I'm again in control of when and where I "come out" totally, which is good. It's scary when it's suddenly in somebody else's hands!</p>
<p>hmm i go to a mostly boys school and about half the grls r either bi/lesbian 2 of the grls in my grade last yr were in a relationship so u kinda have to acceptit b/c its everywhere u cannot hide b/c were all in eachothers business in a 85 kid/5-12 grade school</p>
<p>An online friend of mine accidentally came out to his parents when he was twelve and they've hated him ever since. He got depressed, spent six months in his room eating pizza and getting fat, and started having sex with random guys over the Internet. And then he contracted AIDS. After a while of being depressed, he got his act together, went to college, and now seems happy and successful.</p>
<p>But he's still going to die in a few years. :(</p>
<p>I have another gay friend who came out in junior year of college. He's now in a two-year relationship with this great, really smart guy who knows five languages and lots of popular culture and is heading to med school. They seem quite happy together.</p>
<p>Maybe you should just come out to the people who you know won't be too upset about it.</p>
<p>well someone i knew came out to his parents and his parents essentially disowned him and sent him to a mental institution...</p>
<p>he's dead now...</p>
<p>...maybe you're just imagining things that aren't real</p>
<p>i knew someone who thought he was gay for a while and now he has a wife and kids</p>
<p>PKswmr, your ignorance is showing. That is the worst advice I've ever heard. If this guy has the guts to post on a forum, he's come to terms with himself enough to know his sexuality. Either the guy you know was really confused when he "thought he was gay" or he's repressing those feelings now and pretending to be in love with his wife. Trust me. Sexuality is just as obvious to gays as it is to straights, it's not something you can just "imagine."</p>