How old were you when you came out?
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I think I came out when I was 19 or 20. My friend asked if I was gay and said he didn't care if I was or not. I came out to my parents about a year later and they didn't have a problem with it either.
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To myself at 22
Family 25
Friends - later and over the years. It was complicated. -
I was just 16 when I came out to my mom. She heard I was kissing a guy in the park. Shouted at me for it. I told her he was my boyfriend. She slapped me in the face. I shouted "I'm gay" louder.
Think she was more annoyed about the guy I was kissing who is now my ex who I live with.
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26yo
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25
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24 now but haven't come out..
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23. Best thing I ever did.
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21
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not yet
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late 30's and have not yet considered doing it. too stressful to think about.
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I was 14! hard days
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In 1985 I came out in high school when I was about 15ish.
I kept trying to change it till about 20, then I just accepted it coming out to everyone after.
Oddly, my super religious Catholic family was super supportive but my Backwards Baptist other side rejected me utterly.
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In 1985 I came out in high school when I was about 15ish.
I kept trying to change it till about 20, then I just accepted it coming out to everyone after.
Oddly, my super religious Catholic family was super supportive but my Backwards Baptist other side rejected me utterly.
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Coming out to my family (indirectly) at the age of 28. They knew.
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It's a process - I came out to my best friend when I was 14 (1975), I came out to my family when I was 17 (1978), I've been functionally out to EVERYONE since I moved back to Canada in 1986 (I was 25).
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never in this life. It will put myself and business in danger. If i have afterlife and still love my brother I will try to come out
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to close friends in my early 20s and fully out by 30
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It’s now about 10 years since I came out aged 18… never looked back!
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If I added up the tines I "came out" – once in grade school at age 12, to several friends in high school, to roommates and study buddies in college, and in the working world -- it would be a multitude of years.
To me, it's not a single point on a lifeline, but I might just interpret "coming out" in a different fashion than most.
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