Coming Out Stories? xD

[Zythren]

Told a friend and it spread like wildfire, made a youtube video about it, siblings found it (that was awkward =.='), deleted video, told parents over facebook a couple years later. Good times. Notrly.

i thought this one was the best lol kinda harsh and random way for poeple to find out

Yeh it was an odd year.

[Vanilla Skunk]

I told my sister all about furries.  But the furries I introduced her just so happened to be on disability, or kids.  And they were all obsessed with their fursonnas, so she now thinks that furries are all head cases...

My parents are passed away and buried in Saskatchewan, so they either already know, or will never know.

I have five more sisters and a pile of cousins to have such a conversation with yet.

[Ao]

Huh...

Well In my school, it wasn't very bi/gay safe only untill the new lesbian school principal joined up and put a crack down on all the jocks and what not. In grade 9, I let a handful of friends know i was "bi" as a safe zone untill about grade 12. I wasn't ACTUALLY bi as some peopel start out as. My school got alot better seeing how there were maybe .... 4 -5 of us LOL. But yeah Grade 12 was the year I let everyone know i was, which was alittle hard becuase I did lose some friends, but most of them were supportive. When I graduated, my rule was they can think i'm straight (which i KIND OF look/act it) but if they ask, i'm going to tell them the truth.

So friends, co-workers and randoms I meet know I am. As for my parents...
My step dad is homophobic so If i said anything i would most likely be targeted for more of his BS. I didn't know about my mom and other people but shit went down at my house and I left. I'm now living wth a friend and my mom and grandma packed away my room into storage, but while they were filling tubs up with my old unused stuff then found an old Christmas Card my friend gave me that has some pritty delicious looking bums on it XD And in the card it said something along the lines of "Merry Christmas and i hope that your new year has plenty of man butts cuz i know thats what you like". When people confront me I like to beat around the bush as much as possible, even more when i'm super embarassed. SO my mom and I were shopping for new work pants and she sprung up the question if i was gay in Winners in a crowd of people who were looking at me and her. I wish i had a billboard glued to my head that read "Not now mum", becuase she's pritty clueless and has no fliter while talking to anyone. So i nonchalantly said "Maybe" and "yeaaahh guys are nice". I don't think she got the picture but i'm sure she will figure it out when pictures of me making out with guys are on my facebook :3

[Lt ReiStark]

my mom always saw the way i look at guys, so one day when i was upset she asked what was wrong, it went though the list of "Bullying? friendships? girl problems?" then "Boy problems". i told my mom and she told my dad, and i told my sister and my friends.  now i wear rainbows everywhere :gay:

[Emboof]

I came out when I was 18 (but was out online at about 15 or 16). I was having an argument with my ma and stepdad and during the shouting my mom asked what was wrong with me, why I was always angry and I blurted out "Because I'm GAY!"  That sorta stopped the argument and I actually had to assure them it wasn't  a phase or the devil making me gay (stepdad very conservative/religious and influenced my mom). Real dad had passed away a year prior and so they were thinking that's what the problem was. However, I have no idea how they could have been surprised because I look back at all the little homemade short films I did growing up and I was SO flaming.

These days I'm open about everything, even my furryness, but there's still not all that much talking that I do when I visit them. *Giggles* my mate is referred to as my "friend" by my mom and she seems a bit awkward and distant when I say "boyfriend ", but she still says she's glad I'm happy. So they're at least accepting.

[Icey Dominus]

well your doing better than me i am stuck in my life i have lived if that makes any sense growing up to be the jock treated like one people where scared of me even though i didn't want them to be. Big played all the sports and stuff, wore the letter jacket and everything now i can get away from my roots for some reason i cant be open or anything,

[Emboof]

Well, at least being honest about things in a forum is a start. That's how I started coming out of my shell. I started posting to a Titan AE message board years ago and it turned out most of the folks there were not only bi/gay, but furs as well. Once I was able to be honest with online friends and discover there were more (sort of) like me in the world it lead to an easier transition to being myself IRL. I used to be the quiet introverted husky kid who sat in the corner daydreaming or writing emoetry. These days I'm very outgoing. It's all a process which takes some a bit longer to go through then others, let alone those who spend their whole lives being dishonest with themselves. I'd say since you're posting in here you're on the right track. To tell you the truth, people used to think I was pretty intimidating, but once they started talking to me they find out how easy I am to get along with. At all my jobs I end up being the guy everyone trusts and comes to with their issues because I'm so open and truthful. The differences in personalities between the me of 10 years ago and the me of today is pretty astronomical. We all to start somewhere.

[Neox]

I never really "came out" with the fact that I'm into both girls and guys.  I just like to let it surprise people in conversation. XD

Coworker (jokingly): "Steve likes men!"

Me: "Yup."

Coworker: "Wait... like, actually?"

Me: "Yup."

Coworker: "Huh!  Well I'll be!" O_o

My parents kinda found out when my sisters told them I was seeing a guy, unaware that I hadn't told my parents yet.  Apparently, their response was similar to the coworker-convo above. =P

I don't really feel the need to publicize it.  I just honestly answer people's questions and only feel the need to admit it if the context asks for it.  Makes things a lot simpler that way and people don't get the whole "gay pride" vibe off me (not that having gay pride is bad, but you can't deny that homophobes generally hate that shit.)

[Van_Fox]

How can you not like men? If you only liked wemon, then youd have no guy friends and youd hate your own kind. You'd be frowned upon and not qualify as a man.
^ My response to the douche bag "you like men" remark.

[Neox]

How can you not like men? If you only liked wemon, then youd have no guy friends and youd hate your own kind. You'd be frowned upon and not qualify as a man.
^ My response to the douche bag "you like men" remark.

That was just an example I pulled off the top of my head, bud. =P  And typically, when people say "____ likes men," they actually mean it the more homosexual way.

This is how we butcher context. XD

[Roffo]

I am open about being a furry; however, sometimes I feel no need to telling people who I know about it. Some friends know, some friends could easily guess. My mom has no clue that I am a furry. Awhile back she even suggested looking into furry as a group to be part of. I found it quite funny. . .

No one says any negative comments to me about being a furry. People who I thought would hate it seem to love it. I have people asking me questions about tails I sew and drawings I make. When it comes to sexuality, no one knows to much except for a few people..

[Zetta]

wrong thread, coon.