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Honestly, I came out when I was 10. See, my parents divorced when I was like...5 I think, because my dad was/is Gay. So, I was raised around it seeing as I grew up with my dad. He encouraged it so when I was first getting all those "teenage hormones" he well.... redface bought me my first porn mag...it was a gay mag and I dont know...I just liked it I guess. Been gay every since. Don't get me wrong, girls are cool and can be nice to look at but when it comes down to it...I want a guy laying next to me. Not a girl.

I was 15. Throughout the year I'd been coming out to friends and such, one at a time, then, entirely coincidentally (I didn't know this until later, when Ethan [Vague] pointed it out to me) I came out to my parents on national coming out day. I left a book and a note in their bed, and its all been pretty good. My dad couldn't care less, which is awesome, and my mom was kinda weird about it at first, but she's cool now.

I have come out to some of my friends, but not my family. When I was fifteen (I'm sixteen now) I had my First Gay Experience. I was with my friend Abbe, who I knew had a crush on me. We ended up kissing at our church. (Hooray for UU churches!) Then I felt like I needed to come out to somebody, so I screwed up my courage and told two of my friends at school that I was bisexual. My friend Sade was quietly supportive, as she always is, and my friend Tiara said she didn't expect me to say that, but she hugged me when I cried. I also came out to my friend Erica, who said she wasn't really surprised and some other people who I don't know as well.

I don't know when I'll ever be able to come out to my family. My family always has crap happening to them, there's never a "good time" to tell them. For example, in the last month my grandfather died, my grandmother was diagnosed with leukemia, and my mother quit her job. gonk

I came out to a few close friends but that's it. I'm scared to tell my parents even though I know they'd be very understanding. I'm just shy and don't like to talk about myself on any issue to my parents.

I think I'm going to wait till a point where I have to tell them. I don't really see the point in coming out to them for no reason. It'd be like going up to them and telling them that my favourite colour was blue and not red which they'd always assumed. That last sentence was hypothetical but I hope you get what I'm saying. It'd just seem random and pointless. I think I'll just be myself and if they ask I'll be honest.

Aww that's so sad! [hugs]
I don't think I'll be as unfortunate but, I'll make sure to be organized and prepared for when that day comes.
I'm sorry your experience was so bad. I hope your father is fine now.

My parents and have yet to patch things up as well...

I was accused for looking at porn but like your father's... Evidence was just that I was spending time chatting in the usual rooms that I had chatted in every night. But since I came out he hasnt left me alone since. Heh. That is why I am thankful that Gaia doesnt post a link to everything you post like some forums do. Otherwise hed be all over meh again with questions and such of what I was writing this and that for. What I still dont get ((nor do I like to hear)) is that my father said that going to look for support groups was the worst thing I could do. "It will only make you more like them..." he said. Well I went anyways and it helped me out of my deep depression so I think it helped me see the better of things through out all of this home life eh? *Hugs Keithing too just because...*

Its kind of fun being a masculine homosexual... Hehe. None of my friends could believe it when I came to the point where I told them about "me" and that made me feel good. Heh. There is just something about turning down girls and running into the arms of one of my guy friends that makes me smile... Hehe