I guess this is the coming out thread huh?
I always knew I was different. Just something in me was like you're not like the other kids.
It was always that way. I never knew why, but you just know these things.
I was at school one day and I decided to sit with the girls at recess instead of playing soccer with the guys.
I would go back and forth, sitting with the girls in the shade, or getting sticky and sweaty with the guys.
So that one day, the guys decided to call me gay or whatever, and I'm like ummm so what?
I didn't really know what it meant to that extent. I didn't fully understand it.
I just thought gay meant simply being different. I was 12.
Then later on that week, I was watching tv with my family, and there was something about gay men or whatever, and I asked my mom what it meant. She explained it as simply as she could and I thought about it.
And I thought about it for a few minutes, going over it in my head, and I came out.
She thought I was joking and then she got all hysterical and started freaking out for whatever reason.
She told my dad, and he clearly didn't care. He was just like "Oh, okay, what's for dinner?" type of attitude towards it.
It confused me because her closest friend at the time was a gay man and she still has gay male friends to this day.
But whatever. I'm out to my friends too and they don't mind. Fortunately, I haven't been a victim of gay bashing and hate crimes. I mean of course you get the whole macho man homophobe that freaks out when I tell them, but if they act like that, I cut off all communications with them and if we have mutual friends, I pretend like they don't exist.

Originally posted by JLO_FeEN .