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Re: Coming Out Thread

Postby writerfreak » Sun Dec 27, 2009 5:25 am

I agree no one should feel pressured or guilted into coming out, when the time is right you'll know and feel ready and just do it. Even if there's a bad reaction I know you can handle it even though it will hurt. And I'm always right here if ya need me.

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Re: Coming Out Thread

Postby CourtneyDax » Sun Dec 27, 2009 3:14 pm

JustSkipIt wrote:Courtney - I'm glad to hear that you've found support from your family and community. That's really important. I also hope that you've found some alternatives to cutting. You didn't mention the current status of that. I hope you're doing well and welcome to the KB and thanks for posting.


Oh, as soon I came out, I was able to get through all that badness and stop cutting. It's sad cuz some of those scars will never fade away, but I am a better person now and truly living my best life.
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Re: Coming Out Thread

Postby Guest » Sun Jan 31, 2010 4:15 pm

This is my newest coming out story that I wanted to share with you all.

My cousin R. was particularly supportive and understanding when her best friend came out to her.

However, when I did the same to her, she was shocked, outraged and didn't speak to me for about a year until our most recent reconnection where she expressed shame for her behaviour. She stated that she couldn't digest that a member of her family, someone that she considered her sister could be a lesbian.

My friend M. was particularly supportive and understanding when I came out to her.

However, when her younger cousin did the same thing ... you can already guess the rest of the story.

I would love to hear about your opinions on this particular phenomenon ... as I was wondering if culture has something to do with it :)

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Re: Coming Out Thread

Postby Foomatic » Tue Feb 02, 2010 7:04 pm

Hey Vi,

The same thing happened to my partner, so I don't necessarily think it's a cultural thing.

Steph's parents were really good friends with a lesbian couple when Steph was growing up, but her mom blew a gasket when she found out about us.

I think the underlining sentiment for her back then was that it was okay, as long as it wasn't family. Steph is an only child, and a lot of her mom's hopes and dreams pretty much rested on her shoulders. It took her a very long time to tell her friends, I think because it caused her a lot of embarassment.

I don't know if I answered your question, but I just wanted to share our experience as well.
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Re: Coming Out Thread

Postby Misanthropic_Ninja » Sat Feb 27, 2010 6:54 am

Never really written down my coming out story... here it goes anyway!

It was a warm spring day in Australia... lol. Anyway, I went to a Catholic, private, all-girl school. I was in grade 9 walking down one of the hallways towards one of my mates. When I was a few metres away I realised I was checking her butt out.
Basically the thought "Holy shit, I'm gay" hit me like a ton of bricks. I couldn't move or breathe for ages. Long story short, I repressed massively for a few months. In grade 10 (at tender age of 15 :P), on a camp, I decided to come out to two of my 'good' mates as bi. I figured that they'd tell everyone at our campsite, and by the end of the camp, the whole year level would know. I was totally right.

There were about 6 people from my year level that DIDN'T give me shit on a daily basis. I spent the next two years being bullied constantly and having notes shoved in my locker and things written on it. What made it worse was that I did P.E through to year 12, sand I had to put up with girls asking if I just did it to perve.

The only good thing that came out of it was that I told one of my grade 12 friends. After a while I got the courage to tell her that I liked her.
We dated for a year and are still good mates today.

It was really shit going through that kind of school with everyone knowing about it... It was pretty much an open secret, and my homophobic little sister was at the same school, which made things even harder. Things got a bit better though, and a few girls from my year level and year levels below mine started coming to me and thanking me for coming out, and telling me that they hoped that they could one day. I was so lucky to have one teacher at school that had found me crying a few weeks after coming out. She made me come up to her office and tell her the whole story. She put a lot on the line for me by trying to get the school to agree to having some "homosexuality education" (I have NO idea what you'd call them!) sessions with my year level to try to make things easier for me. While the school said a flat no to that, she was there for me whenever I needed her to be, right up until I graduated.

I havn't come out to my family yet... I don't think I ever will. My dad would disown me as would my grand parents. They're pretty hardcore bigots on both sides- on one we're Orthodox and on the other we're Catholic, so I'm pretty screwed.

5 years later I have to say I'm lucky to have some amazing friends around me who don't really care who I want to date, or who I'm attracted to. I'm still yet to come out to most of them as gay though.

So many good things have eventually come out of me coming out. I'm a committed Catholic and I help run a youth group in my parish. A couple of months ago I had a 16 year old girl crying uncontrollably to me because she realised she was bi. The most rewarding thing that's happened to me in the 5 years since that camp to be able to help her through this. It's been worth everything I went through in high school. Plus, telling my friends has also given some of my more closed minded Catholic and Christian friends something to really think about, and they're starting to come around to "getting it".

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Re: Coming Out Thread

Postby Guest » Tue Mar 02, 2010 10:14 am

*bows as the curtain closes*

Thank you for sharing your story :) It's amazing how
wonderful a feeling it can be when you end up helping other people who are going through what you might have gone through during the early years.

@ April: Thanks a lot for sharing. You did answer my question and I thank you for that :) Much cheer.
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Re: Coming Out Thread

Postby Ilovewillow » Sat Mar 06, 2010 12:47 pm

I just want to say thanks to everyone, just for letting vent out what Im feeling right about now.

Okay, well then Im bi and i know am I, which really pissed me off when my dad said 'oh but your so young, how can you know'? and I just do, but Im getting ahead of myself here.
So In school me and this girl starting talking alot because she was in my group for a project so yeah, lots of talking and she started to tell that she thought she was bi, and i said oh yeah Im bi, and i thought that was all cool and stuff and then she told me that she made out with one of her friends and at first I was like oh cool, go you! but then i started to think about it and i was jealous, I mean its not that i hadnt noticed her before, she's pretty great personality and just fun to be around, so i thought about it and i decided i liked her, so i told her. Bad move. I kinda avoided her for a day, and we talked about it and she said, even though she didnt love me like that, she would still be my friend and not treat me any different. Then like yesterday (yes i know, cant believe it only happened yesterday) she was avoidy with me, and then i find out later in my last lesson of the day, that she told her friends and they told EVERYONE. At first I found it really hard not to cry about it which concidentally i did but i asked her why she did it and she said because she didnt know what to say to me. So i was really upset and I mean major, and me and my dad had 'the talk', which was reeeeeeallllllly akward, causing me to regret telling him that i was Bi.
After a day of moping around, i texted her and we talked momentarily and we did again today, she said i was making a too big a deal out of it, and she asked me why i was making a huge deal about it. The truth is I love her, i really do, not just friendly love, I mean when she hugs me i get the tingles, when she smiles i just melt and just being around her makes me happy, and not to mention that she flirts with her friend like really badly which makes me really jealous, and i told her that and she said she wants us to be good friends again, but what should I do? I mean part of me wants to shut her out for good but the rest of me doesnt and wants to try and make a friendship again even if thats all it is.

So yes, that my problem, quite alot of drama for a 14 year old eh? So what do you guys think I should do? I really need help with this.
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Re: Coming Out Thread

Postby JustSkipIt » Sat Mar 13, 2010 6:26 am

ilovewillow - Wow. I'm really sorry that your friend betrayed you like that and that you're getting hassled. I don't have much to say beyond stay true to yourself and try to know that there are a lot of people who love you and like you and do want to be your friend. And if you find anyone who you can trust (a counselor or coach or whatever), talk to him/her about what's going on. It may help. And please make this your home if you need.

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Re: Coming Out Thread

Postby KiWy » Mon May 03, 2010 9:33 am

Hi everyone. So, i'm not a lesbian, not even bi, or so I think, hence me writing this here, waiting for your wonderfull kitten-y advice :)
My story is long and weird, and i'm not sure i can write it propperly seing that english is a foreign language to me.
Since I was little, I sometimes had these childish crushes on boys...or girls. I denied it completely. Though, after elementary school and before high school (we call it "collège" in France, but I know it means university to you), I had some light crushes on boys only, so I didn't think anymore about girls and probabilities and stuff.
Before I continue further, you have to know that I'm lebanese, raised in a christian family, and supposed to be a believer myself. Culture and tradition being what they are, I'm supposed to wait until my middle 20's before i get physical with anyone, then find a nice lebanese guy, get married and so on.
Of course, life didn't turn that way to me. I've had a boyfriend for 6 months during my last high school year, and was really in love with him (got physical with him too...my mother will never know about that lol). After we broke up, I was physically attracted to one of my bisexual female friends. At a party at my ex's house, we were kinda drunk, and got with the smoochies. Later, we talked about it, and were clear that we would have willingly got a lot more physical if we weren't in the middle of my ex boyfriend's garden. That girl is currently my roomie, we're great friends, and she has a boyfriend.
So, from that night on, I started to check out both guys and girls. I won't consider myself as bi until i fall in love with a girl, but i'm really open to everything. 'm 19 and still waiting for somebody in my life, whoever they are. Problem is, I can never be with a girl because of my family, which reduces a lot the possibilities lol. .Advices ?
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Re: Coming Out Thread

Postby JustSkipIt » Tue May 04, 2010 12:25 pm

Hi KiWy,
Well, actually it sounds like you're in a good spot. You're open to what happens and open to falling in love. To me, that's the place to start. You'll meet people and be attracted to some and maybe fall in love. And that will be beautiful and wonderful. And what else would be better to have a a guide? I wouldn't worry about labels for now. Just be who you are and love who you love.
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Re: Coming Out Thread

Postby KiWy » Wed May 05, 2010 1:50 am

Hi JustSkipIt,
Thanks for your advice, it really sounds like my own philosophy in life. Though, i'm not really worried about "labels": gay, lesbian, bi, straight... i don't think love is a matter of genders anyway.
My problem is my culture, religion and traditions. I can't even tell my parents i don't believe in God, they'd just freak out. So telling them I'm neither a virgin nor completely straight ?? I'd be kicked out of the family, which is one of the most important things in my life !
So either i live my life the way i intend it, and loose them, or i never tell about it and if i happen to fall for a girl...well...i'm screwed XD
Anyway, thanks for your advice :) and sorry for my english, i just don't even know if i'm writing properly :blush lol
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Re: Coming Out Thread

Postby tarawillow<3 » Fri May 14, 2010 4:10 pm

i came out about a year ago, though i think my grandpa dosn't approve. we talked about a show with a gay couple in it and he cursed gay people. it hurt.
I still get teased, insulted and ect.... about me being lesbian at my school, and a group of girls wanna beat me up for it :/
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Re: Coming Out Thread

Postby Mrs. Pineapple » Sat May 15, 2010 1:35 am

tarawillow<3,

that sucks. Reading all these coming out stories I'm really grateful that my own environment is so open to it. I came out to my parents last year, and they were really supportive. I think my sister still has trouble believing it, and she is kinda sorry we can't go to a movie to drool over a hot guy, but besides that, she's been really great. I'm kinda afraid for my family though. The thing is: my mom is from the Netherlands and my dad is from Belgium, and the mentality is totally different. And while my mom told my family in the Netherlands (and they were really cool about it), my dad seems to refuse to tell my family in Belgium. Not that I blame him. All and all I've been really lucky, but I know my family here (Belgium, that is) is... How do I say this? You know how people tend to be open about a lot of things, until it concerns their own friends or family? I'm afraid of that. Not much, cause I'm really out of the closet already, and I don't wanna hide, but it bothers me that they don't know... Anyway this was it...

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Re: Coming Out Thread

Postby Guest » Wed Jun 02, 2010 7:43 am

Hello to all the sweet kittens over here :)

I'm just posting over here so I could share my feelings more than anything else. I have a few french friends who I dearly loved once but who I decided to 'leave'. To be clearer, my leaving occurred after I got initiated into Natural Healing methods and I suddenly went through an emotional cleansing of my past that included relationship cleansing.

One of my friends S. took it badly and I have had threats from her ever since.

The first threat she sent my way was to tell me that she was sure I was being manipulated by some sectarian religious group and that it was her duty as a friend to get me out of there at all costs. That meant she was going to get in touch with my family so as to tell them my secrets.

What set me sweating profusely the first time was: Did she mean my getting initiated into healing or did she mean my being gay?

I didn't reply to her.

A month later, I received another such message whereby she told me she simply had to get me out of the hole I had fallen in and there was only one way of slapping me back into reality and that was to tell my family everything.

Once again, I felt this deep familiar feeling of fear engulf me. What if S. actually meant telling them I was gay?

Today, I received another threat from S. She mentions among other things that if I do not get back onto the "real world", she was going to tell my family everything about me.

The more rational side of me knows she only means to let them know I have fallen into a "sect" as she calls it. But the more primitive defensive side of me is worried about S. actually being revengeful enough to throw caution to the winds and let my family know I am gay.

And for the very first time in my life, I feel it doesn't matter anymore.

What would be worse than being kicked out of the house? Being kicked out means I get to live independently and that's something I have been desirous of acquiring for ages now and couldn't access it because of the dynamics of our culture.

My friend S. with her threats is one wonderful angel in disguise and I am deeply grateful to her for whatever she has been doing for thanks to her, I am ready to face anything now.

Peace & green footprints to all,

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Re: Coming Out Thread

Postby JustSkipIt » Thu Jun 03, 2010 6:42 pm

Vi,
I love that step, that point, when we each can see that those who think they can threaten us or harm us and we realize that they are truly here to strip away that which isn't truth. Truly, I hope and pray that her actions don't hold you a prisoner but I also hope that you do not actually lose your family through this. I know that you feel it will happen some day and I pray that they will be able to see past the influences of your culture to love you as you are.
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Re: Coming Out Thread

Postby Guest » Thu Jun 03, 2010 9:03 pm

Thank you deb for the added support :) I am glad to say that I feel relieved though that my friend is only interested in telling the whole world this ...

" to what extent this sect of yours has turned you into a crazy hippy chick who needs to be whacked into the real world of her friends again ... AND I'm gonna tell your parents all about it as soon as I get their address. Don't think you are getting away with it. "

That's all she wants to let my peeps know. It's a totally false image of who I am and what I do and however annoying it might be ... it is also making me smile and shake my head.

Life goes on. All is peaceful.

Blessings be to all,

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Re: Coming Out Thread

Postby Foomatic » Thu Jun 03, 2010 9:29 pm

Hey Vi,

Methinks that, given the amount of threats and the time in between, if she really wanted to do it, she would have done it already.

I think it's great that inspite of all this, you can find a positive outcome. Reading your posts here and on FB always put a smile on face because they're just full of love and positivity. It's nice to know that for all the bitching and moaning that goes on here and on FB (of which I am totally guilty of) there's someone who can still see the good in even the worst situations. I think we should all take a cue from you.

Good luck!
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Re: Coming Out Thread

Postby Zooeys_Bridge » Fri Jun 04, 2010 9:53 pm

Dear 'Vi,

This sounds like a situation that has given you much stress and worry. Despite whatever resolutions and consequences (for good or bad) may occur, I hope that in the end, having it be 'over and done with' will bring a measure of peace.

Best of luck, friend! I wish you nothing but the best and happy endings.

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Re: Coming Out Thread

Postby Guest » Fri Jun 04, 2010 10:54 pm

@Foo, always the best words of comfort said in the best possible way and at the best moment :D Thank you my friend. I am glad to hear that not everyone thinks healing is Gone-Bonkers world and I am equally happy to hear that you all enjoy my positive energy. It means a lot.

@Rach, there are times when I do ask myself which is worse: being in a healing closet or being in a gay closet. Both are very real, intimate aspects of me so it's hard not to be open about it.

I feel able to send my friend S. even more love today thanks to all of your kind words :)

You all rock!!

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Re: Coming Out Thread

Postby willowtarabuffyfaith » Mon Jun 14, 2010 2:48 pm

Oh god! i've just come out to one of my best friends. It was the most terrifying and relieving thing i've ever done. Thankfully she's okay with it. But i jut dont know how to tell my other best friend. I know that she will be okay with me being gay but there just that underlining fear that she won't be okay with me nad then i've lost one of the only 2 people i trust most in the world.
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Re: Coming Out Thread

Postby JustSkipIt » Wed Jun 16, 2010 2:40 pm

willowtarabuffyfaith - I'm glad to hear that it went well with your friend and hope it's equally positive when you talk to the second one.
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Re: Coming Out Thread

Postby Regan » Sat Jun 26, 2010 10:12 am

ILOVEWILLOW- i think at some point most people go through what you have. if your friend is saying friendship is all i can give you then you should make a decision. Will you just be satisfied alone with friendship or do you deep down want to stay friends to see if things will change. I dont think staying friends with her if you have 'other ideas' wil help. i had this problem, it all started from friendship first and worked up. but in the end when she said i really want to be your friend and nothing more i had to decide.the friendship was worth more. and i wont lie, it hurt like hell, i was madly in love with her. but hey, it took a year or so but i can honestly say it was the best decision. if you really want the friendship you need to grasp it and take what ever comes your way. If you dont think you can deal with the feelings and seeing this person with someone else then maybe you should cut your losses.But take it from me, through all the messes up stuff i went through it was totally worth it and wouldnt change a thing :) good luck to you :)
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Re: Coming Out Thread

Postby sapphoselene » Tue Jul 06, 2010 9:54 pm

Hi... this is probably the hardest thing I have done in a long time. I am unsure of who I am, and what I want. Several years ago (before my mom passed away) I sat down with her and told her that I think I might be gay. It was the most terrifying moment I had experienced since becoming an adult. After what seemed to me an eternity of deafening silence she reached out her hand and took mine. She said that no matter what she still loved me. I could tell that it hurt her though. She began to ask me questions like was I sure (because I had never dated anyone and acted like i was attracted to guys my whole life). I told her that I was more drawn to women and found them to be much more attractive to me.

She reminded me of another conversation we had several years prior. I had finally told her that I had been molested by my stepfather's friend, but he hadn't had a chance to escalate to full rape before my parents divorce. (It is a sad thing to say but I believe my parents getting a divorce was one of the luckiest things that happened in my life). She asked me if maybe because of what he did and how it made me feel if that was the reason I decided to be gay.

She was an amazing woman who had suffered through her own tortured and abused childhood. She was very strong, stubborn, and determined. When she was 16 her stepfather raped her and she had me 9 months later. Her parents tried to force her to have an abortion (which was still highly illegal in 1969) and when she refused they had the doctor drug her just as I was born. I was taken from her and placed in a foster home. They badgered her for 10 days to try and make her sign papers to give me up for adoption, and again she refused. I was reunited with her after the 10 days was over. When I was 7 months old her family packed all of us up and left the state. She married my stepfather when I was 3 to get away from her family. My whole life she showed me how to be a strong and stubborn woman. She never gave up. The last 10 years of her life she spent more time in the hospital than out, but she was determined to live as long as she could to see her family grow and develop. All I can hope for is to be as much like her as I can.

I know that she was hurt and scared that I believed I was gay. We grew up in a very strict Baptist background. She believed that being gay was a sin against God. Even with her belief she still refused to turn from me. She continued to love me and support me. My sister and brother have made several comments that lead me to believe they are homophobic. Because of this I don't feel safe coming out to them. It hurts so much to think that simply because I prefer the form of a woman that they would reject, and/or hurt me. There are some things I just don't feel strong enough to endure. Losing the love of my family, and being reviled by them is just too much for me to take. I may be a coward. I just can't take the thought of them hating me. It cuts me to my soul. I love them so much.

Thank you for having this thread. It makes it easier to deal with just to be able to let go of the fear, pain, and self-hating. Sometimes it is easier to tell things to strangers. It is safer because I am not emotionally involved, and can easily deal with anything said (positive or negative). Since the day I told my mom I have spent a lot of time thinking and examining myself. I have found that while I can appreciate the structure of a well muscled male figure; I don't desire them. I do find myself attracted to women. I am ready now to admit to myself that what I told my mom was the truth... I am gay. Wow... I never thought that I would be able to say that. It is true I love the way a woman's body looks, and the feeling I get when I see a woman that is (to me) very desirable.

The honesty and acceptance that I have seen here gave me the confidence to finally be honest with myself. I just wanted to share that with others. I'm sorry if I got a little wordy or off topic at all. I appreciate the people I have met so far on this site, and would be most honored to be a kitten for as long as you would accept me.

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Re: Coming Out Thread

Postby Ilovewillow » Sat Jul 10, 2010 1:36 pm

Hey again everyone, hope you are all doing well :)
So. You remember that girl that I was on about, last time I was on here? Well I still like her "/, except she doesn't know that, we had loads of fights afterward and pretty much didn't speak to each other, but then one day, after we had some light conversation, she apologised to me, and in turn I apologised to her, now were good friends, but I still kind of like her, and I also like one of her friends. -.-.

Her friend - Miss K we shall call her - told me straight up, when I asked her of course, that she was bi, and me being all stupid and hopefull, began to crush on her, but the good thing was I told her and she was fine with it, unlike my previous times, with Miss H ( The other girl), So after I had the huge falling out with Miss H she pretty much hated on me too, we sit next to each other in a lesson, and i sit really close to her in some other lessons, which made it really akward, but we started talking again, as we do now, but I can't help feeling that she is alittle off with me, like, just because I like her she treats me aliitle different, having confronted her about this many times, she denys it. Well of course she would, wouldn't she?

So I still like the girl that put me through hell and I like one of her close mates. And to top it all off, Miss H thinks that she's bi, and trust me, if she came out, she could have anyone she wanted.

Oh and to top it all off, in the disaster known as my love life, I am madly in love with my English teacher, who is 26 and has a boyfriend. This sucks...

Soph :pride
Things fall apart. They fall apart so hard. You can't ever ... put them back the way they were.
Are you okay?
I'm sorry, it's just ... You know, it takes time. You can't just ... have coffee and expect-
I know.
There's just so much to work through. Trust has to be built again, on both sides ... You have to learn if ... if we're even the same people we were, if you can fit in each other's lives. It's a long... important process, and ... can we just skip it? Can-can you just be kissing me now?
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Re: Coming Out Thread

Postby JustSkipIt » Thu Jul 15, 2010 4:20 pm

Sapphoselene - Hi and welcome to the board. Your note is very painful but also freeing to read. It sounds like your mother and you had a very wonderful relationship and I'm sorry for your loss of her. To go through what she went through and come out of it with such love is truly beautiful.

As far as you and your coming out... you seem free. You feel free. It is as if you are now standing at the doorway of your life. What a wonderful and beautiful possibility for you!
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Re: Coming Out Thread

Postby Scortor » Wed Aug 04, 2010 5:04 pm

I'm hoping this thread isn't limited to people who are just coming out now, I've been almost fully out for 3 or 4 years now, but would like some advice to be fully out instead of almost fully.

I was born and raised in the States, but my parents are really foreign and pretty much still operate by old school traditions. In their country, there were no gay people, not because they didn't exist, but that the cultural norm was that you married the opposite gender and had a family by the age of 21. Period. Married people sometimes had secret gay lovers I'm sure, but anyone that was open about being gay got stoned to death, exiled, or completely shunned.

I was outted by 2 of my cousins when I was 19. I'd known I was gay for a long time before that, but I was waiting to move out of the house before I told my family because I was almost certain they'd throw me out. To my surprise, they didn't. But they did make me swear to never tell anyone EVER and completely change the way I dress to not arouse suspicion. I complied at first, just happy to not be kicked out, but as time went on, I stood more and more firmly to my ground. (I'm getting to the issue here, I promise haha)

That pretty much brings us up to my life now. I dress the way I want, go to Pride events, etc, and now my parents definitely know I'm gay, but they refuse to say anything to me or anyone else. In fact, the can't even watch a show if someone makes a gay comment or someone comes out in a movie or whatever. I think it's healthy to talk about things. That's the only way people can move forward in their relationships, you know? But because they're completely ignoring it, nothing is changing. All of my cousins and such that are around my age know, but I'm afraid of telling the older generations because 1) I'm still sort of being sworn to secrecy by my parents but 2) I also don't want to put my family in an awkward position. If they're not ready to talk about it with ME, they're certainly not ready to tell my aunts and uncles.

I don't want to bring it up if it's just going to result in us fighting, but if they can't have a conversation with me about my gayness after 4 years...well who's to say they're ever going to be ready to talk about it?
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Re: Coming Out Thread

Postby JustSkipIt » Mon Aug 16, 2010 6:07 pm

Scortor - I've read and re-read your note trying to figure out if I had anything useful to say. It's hard because it sounds like your situation is not terrible but it's causing you pain all the same. I guess my question is is allowing your parents to dictate your level of outness - your talking about your life to them or to others/relatives worth the relationship you have with them. And if it's not ok, not worth it, how long will it take? You can continue to live in that situation and feel like you're hiding or a shameful secret (those are my words, not yours so if I missed it there, I'm sorry) or you can try to make some changes and it's all up to you. What do you think would happen if you began to push their envelope? If you just started to slip little tidbits about your friends or relationship into conversation?

I mean, I don't know. I hope it gets more comfortable and that you can become happier with the merging of your worlds. Good luck.
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Re: Coming Out Thread

Postby Guest » Mon Aug 23, 2010 8:46 pm

My friend Georg posted this for his group the "Conscious Evolution" to ponder upon and I find that even sexual orientation comes into being when I read these words. May it be a source of peace for some of you for it did bring me a lot of peace.

" ... You suddenly have the idea, you think, that you are unique “I am unique”. Till now this is a plain thought, even if it might feel somehow like a breakthrough. Now you ask yourself how that would feel to be unique. Listen to the feelings that arise inside of you. Maybe you feel strength, self worthiness. Or you feel like a unique flower radiating its unique scent and colour. You feel yourself as special compared to the mass, you feel proud to be special. From there the thought: “I don’t need to copy other people” may arise, which then releases you from the opinion and judgement of other people and the wish inside of you arises that you want to live a honest and truthful life, expressing your true self, showing who you truly are.

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Re: Coming Out Thread

Postby Guest » Tue Aug 24, 2010 12:28 pm

I had been having a kind of a constant struggle with someone I love very much on my gay sexual orientation. Had it been a struggle with anyone else, I would have just let go but this man who I consider my brother, is an advanced spiritual healer. We've been initiated to natural healing modalities together and we have helped each other a lot with our particular gifts ... until we started clashing with the awareness that germinated in his consciousness that the Adam/Eve consciousness within me would eventually heal the sexual imbalance that had led to my homosexuality.

I got a series of spiritual answers to this issue today during my meditations and this is what I wanted to share with all:

1.) I was born divine and with my gay sexual orientation integrated within my divine plan/mission/purpose for this lifetime. Being gay is my Divine Right and most importantly my Divine Gift to mankind.

2.) Being gay is a divine gift because it introduces humanity to unconditional love and acceptance through a complete integration of the divine feminine energy which is Love. The more Love there is, the more it balances dysfunctional masculine energies that came out as patriarchy and Patriarchy is at the source of many issues related to the proper flow of sexual expression.

3.) When we talk about unrepressed sexual expression, we are talking about sexual creativity. Sexual creativity is expressed in 3rd dimensional reality on our Earth through different sexual orientations.

4.) Sexuality is the source of life. In other words, it is the merging of the frequencies of Love with Light leading to Creation.

5.) As far as healing my Adam/Eve seed of consciousness is concerned, I find that it only makes me an even more balanced homosexual and not as per what my healer friend had been perceiving, a heterosexual person ... because when I heal my Adam/Eve consciousness, my masculine and feminine energies get balanced within. We are basically androgynous beings and not strictly too man or strictly too woman. So I can be gay, straight, bisexual, asexual, man or woman ... and still have balanced androgeneity within leading to my true Source.

These were my lessons learnt today and I am grateful for that.

Peace be to all.

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Re: Coming Out Thread

Postby Zooeys_Bridge » Thu Aug 26, 2010 10:17 am

Peace be to that, Vi. Glad you had these things come to you :)
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