National Coming Out Day

[stevekenson]

Yes, it’s National Coming Out Day again. I already covered my favorite “coming out” story last year, so you can feel free to click over and read it but, just so you know...

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[doccross.livejournal.com]

A very dear friend of mine from grammar/high school, decided to come out to his family at his 21st birthday party. He worried about it for weeks in advance. Then, when the big day came and he told the whole family (and a ton of his friends), his mother said "Yes, honey, we know."

Totally flabbergasted by the lack of any reaction to his news, he spent the next month telling all of us how we'd "ruined" his coming out.

[xomec.livejournal.com]

Yeah, there's a want for a certain amount of drama in coming out, I think, plus every closeted gay guy likes to think he's done such a fantastic job at "passing," that he's so masculine and "straight acting" that friends and loved ones will cry "impossible!" and "no, it couldn't be!" when the truth comes out. Sadly, for most of us, the answer is more along the lines of "well that explains a lot" or "we always figured you were the last one to know."

[mswafford.livejournal.com]

Wait...you're gay?

Just kidding.