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Baloki
10-11-2011, 10:07 PM
Tell us your coming out stories or if your straight tell us your being come'd out to stories. If neither tell me about your day :D!

Yar
10-11-2011, 10:08 PM
no.

Peegee
10-11-2011, 10:42 PM
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SolarGirl
10-11-2011, 11:45 PM
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Okay, I'm a friend of SolarGirl. Actually, I used to come here (Vorpal Blade), but I've been busy for a while, and have no clue what my password is.

I have no clue when International Coming Out Day is, but I came out a few months ago. I had been trying to figure out my orientation for a while, and finally realized I was gay. I've been a bit stressed lately, and thought that it might help to relieve some of that stress if I just came out. I was scared, obviously, but knew that my family really shouldn't mind. So I told my mom and stepdad (I don't know how my dad would react, so I haven't told him yet), and they were supportive, accepting, and all that. My brother was fine with it, and my sister sent me a really sweet email (I came out to her with one) saying she was abolutely fine with it. When I told SolarGirl, she gave me a hug and started singing the Avenue Q song ("If you were gay/ It'd be okay/ I would still love you anyway...") Thankfully, she only knows about one and a half verses; she can't sing. Like, at all.

So my fears were ungrounded, but I guess I'm just lucky to have such an accepting family.

Just thought I'd stop by and share so SolarGirl will stop poking me.

Shlup
10-12-2011, 12:07 AM
GAYNESS #1
Throughout my adolescence I had a very super gay guy friend. Like really super gay.

In like tenth grade we're on the phone and he says he has something to tell me. But he's scaaaared. Keeps me on the phone for like half an hour, then finally says it... he's gay. I told him off for dragging out something that was public knowledge.

GAYNESS #2
Also during high school, I dated guy on and off who was pretty damn gay. Really, it was more of a security blanket situation for both of us. He was kind of excessively adamant that he was not gay. In fact, I later found out he was telling people all these ~sexy~ times we had together, that we totally did not have. The sexy times we did have he seemed to have trouble even getting through.

It was cute when the three of us would hang out. My two gay boyfriends got along to well!

Anyway, we talked on AIM like six years later or something. He thought I hated him for dumping me, so I confessed that I had been seeing other people for several weeks before we broke up anyway. Then he told me he was gay and I said something along the lines of, "Duh, I told you that. It's half the reason I dated you; you were safe."

GAYNESS #3
When I was younger one of my mother's many cousins was getting married, which meant her cousins from up north would be visiting. I was excited to see them, but she told me that one of them wasn't allowed to talk to anyone under eighteen for a few years, by court order. She tried to avoid telling me why, but after a while I got my mother to teach me the word "sodomy." Good times.

GAYNESS #4
Another one of my mother's cousins (female) is pretty obviously gay. One day, my mother told me "Hey, [name] came out of the closet." I said "She was in the closet?" To which my mother replied "Apparently she thought she was!"

Someday I would like to see someone come out of the closet who isn't obviously already gay. Booooring.

Jiro
10-12-2011, 12:18 AM
My sister is gay :monster: I need more gay friends!

Pheesh
10-12-2011, 02:19 AM
All I can think of is how awesome it would be if they combined this with talk like a pirate day.

Lone Wolf Leonhart
10-12-2011, 05:37 AM
All I can think of is how awesome it would be if they combined this with talk like a pirate day.

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NorthernChaosGod
10-12-2011, 06:17 AM
I watched a bunch of movies today and did some homework. It was pretty sweet.

Jiro
10-12-2011, 12:25 PM
I would love to make a prank of this but I feel it undermines the point and is a bit shit towards my excellent homosexual pals. I don't like to be a bastard even if it's in pursuit of laffs

Yar
10-12-2011, 12:33 PM
I watched a bunch of movies today and did some homework. It was pretty sweet.Let me translate that for you.

bunch of movies: gay porn
some homework: I was busy fapping so I didn't get all of it done

Loony BoB
10-12-2011, 12:42 PM
I'm in the same boat as Shlup. Everyone I know that is gay either was out from the start, or else I had my suspicions anyway and it was a "I totally thought that might be the case!" (I'm not one to say 'I knew it' >_>;</>) scenario.

I guess it's just not a huge deal to me. Although obviously it is for them, so yay to them.

NorthernChaosGod
10-12-2011, 06:02 PM
I watched a bunch of movies today and did some homework. It was pretty sweet.Let me translate that for you.

bunch of movies: gay porn
some homework: I was busy fapping so I didn't get all of it done
You really want me to be gay, huh?

Yar
10-12-2011, 06:35 PM
no i just hope youll soon accept yourself as the unique little rainbow that you are~~~~

NorthernChaosGod
10-12-2011, 06:39 PM
I'm a rainbow of different shades of black. Like my soul.

Peegee
10-12-2011, 07:19 PM
I watched a bunch of movies today and did some homework. It was pretty sweet.

i knew it!

NorthernChaosGod
10-12-2011, 10:09 PM
Knew what?

erikramza
10-12-2011, 10:31 PM
Only one of my best friends from elementary (k-5 grade school) school... he was gay I think that year, and the next... then after one summer was no longer gay, and liked guy things again..? Think he was confused and pressured by the crowed he ran with then, or something. Not sure... When we were younger it wasn't as understanding a time as now... He socially destroyed himself because of the influence of others... Being a social hit isn't the biggest deal, for sure. I always ask gays I meet if they're 'sure'. Which is probably rude as shit.

Anyways, freedom of choice in mates is one of the rights I signed my life over to the military to fight for. So if you're gay, you have my full support... just know this, and be patient with me if I say some "homosexual" insensitive things. Its just a lifestyle that I don't understand, and have trouble trying to grasp at times. Women are such beautiful goddamn beings... The subject loses me is all. Anyways, rambling as always. Cluttered thoughts.etc.

Yar
10-12-2011, 10:34 PM
If you asked me if I was sure I would probably lose my shit.

erikramza
10-12-2011, 10:46 PM
See? So kinda rude, no? Unnintentional. The way I was raised doesn't help me at all with understanding either. Pretty sure my dear mother, a sweet little white lady doesn't seem to like gays very much...

Anyways, fuck it. Pursuit of happiness. If two (wo)men being together makes them happy, it shouldn't be a bother to anyone else. Who the fuck am I to cause a ruckus about it? You (homosexuals on both sides) have my support. I just may never know how to express it anytime soon. Im signing out of this thread before I kill it/send it in a bitter direction. Sorry to distract from the original topic.

Parker
10-12-2011, 11:00 PM
my friend told me he was gay a while back and i was legitimately shocked

he'd been so afraid of peoples reaction to it he was a perfect actor. shame it was tearing him apart but he's happy now. HOORAH

DMKA
10-12-2011, 11:46 PM
I am an ex-gay survivor. I never came out while I was gay though, fortunately.

SolarGirl
10-13-2011, 12:10 AM
I am an ex-gay survivor. I never came out while I was gay though, fortunately.

...what... how do you "survive" being gay? Gunshots and cancer can kill you. So those survivors actually survived something. Being gay cannot kill you, or even hurt you. It might cause other people to hurt you, to kill you, and you can survive those attempts. But one's sexual orientation is not at all detrimental to one's health any more than being left-handed. So while you might realize that you aren't gay, just as you might realize you aren't straight, it's not something you "survive." It's something you are. Or aren't. or a little of both.

Peegee
10-13-2011, 12:10 AM
why ask if they are sure? whenever i am not sure i enjoy the company of women i hit on one and bam! i know i like this. A LOT

erikramza
10-13-2011, 03:20 PM
why ask if they are sure? whenever i am not sure i enjoy the company of women i hit on one and bam! i know i like this. A LOT

Omg. Girls are fun, huh!?

I ask if they're sure because of that friend I had who was positive he was gay... but in the end was just young and confused (or is now old and confused). From my understanding its a genetic deal and not so much a 'choice', so it draws out in my head "are you sure?".

DMKA
10-13-2011, 11:58 PM
Being gay cannot kill you, or even hurt you.

A common misconception, sadly.

SolarGirl
10-15-2011, 08:57 PM
Being gay cannot kill you, or even hurt you.

A common misconception, sadly.

Please tell me you're joking. How could being gay possibly be harmful? If you're talking about AIDS, you should know that that (and other STDs) is spread by unsafe sexual practices/ drug use, not just by being gay.

Shlup
10-15-2011, 10:38 PM
DMKA, quit trolling the newb or I'll let her decide your punishment.

nik0tine
10-15-2011, 11:11 PM
:save: Hallelujah! DMKA has been cured! :save:

erikramza
10-16-2011, 12:04 PM
Being gay cannot kill you, or even hurt you.

A common misconception, sadly.

Please tell me you're joking. How could being gay possibly be harmful? If you're talking about AIDS, you should know that that (and other STDs) is spread by unsafe sexual practices/ drug use, not just by being gay.

I didn't realize that the meds my doctor gives me can give me the herps.
Sharing needles can spread stds that spread through fluid swapping. There are zero reported cases of a person contracting an std from "drug use", as there is a zero percent chance of this happening .

Laddy
10-20-2011, 12:11 AM
I didn't until I was fourteen. This was pretty much the story:

Me: Mom, I have something to tell you.
Mom: What?
Me: I'm scared to tell you, though...
Mom: You don't have to be afraid to tell me anything, son.
Me: Mom I'm... *five second pause* gay.
Mom: Duh.
Me: <3 <3 <3

My parents ALWAYS figured I was gay so I don't know why I waited so long to tell her. I must say that I'm blessed to have such an accepting and loving family who never really cared either way, and it's unfortunate that more families aren't like that.

Pike
10-20-2011, 12:35 AM
I didn't until I was fourteen. This was pretty much the story:

Me: Mom, I have something to tell you.
Mom: What?
Me: I'm scared to tell you, though...
Mom: You don't have to be afraid to tell me anything, son.
Me: Mom I'm... *five second pause* gay.
Mom: Duh.
Me: <3 <3 <3

My parents ALWAYS figured I was gay so I don't know why I waited so long to tell her. I must say that I'm blessed to have such an accepting and loving family who never really cared either way, and it's unfortunate that more families aren't like that.

Awww <3 it always makes me happy when I hear that family/friends are this accepting.

Peegee
10-20-2011, 12:47 AM
I didn't think he was trolling.

Also I thought he meant that being gay meant that people will straight up lynch your ass. IIRC he lives in such an area.