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mondo joe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-16-08 12:45 AM Original message |
How old were you when you came out? |
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Arctic Dave (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-16-08 12:49 AM Response to Original message |
1. Our daughter came out when she was seventeen. |
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Malikshah (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-16-08 12:54 AM Response to Original message |
2. I was 32. Late bloomer. Lots of wasted time. |
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TechBear_Seattle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-16-08 12:57 AM Response to Original message |
3. It was 3:56pm on March 26, 1983, in Tucson. I was 15 |
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mondo joe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-16-08 12:57 AM Response to Original message |
4. To answer my own question: 12 when I came out to my family. |
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madmadmad (368 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-16-08 01:04 AM Response to Original message |
5. at 17 (1980) to friends in hghschool (i was kind of outed) and around 20 to family |
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Amimnoch (377 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-16-08 01:37 AM Response to Original message |
6. Mine is/has been in stages. |
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peruban (888 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-16-08 01:45 AM Response to Original message |
7. Never came out. |
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ToolTex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-16-08 02:26 AM Response to Reply #7 |
10. I came out when I was 38, after an 18 year hetero marriage. To answer Mondo's OP. |
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peruban (888 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-16-08 06:01 AM Response to Reply #10 |
15. My apologies. |
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pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-16-08 06:16 AM Response to Reply #15 |
18. There are a couple more alternatives for Catholics, peruban. |
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peruban (888 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-16-08 06:52 AM Response to Reply #18 |
20. Thank you. |
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yardwork (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-16-08 12:46 PM Response to Reply #15 |
31. Thank you for your posts here. |
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pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-16-08 06:05 AM Response to Reply #7 |
16. Someday you might surprise yourself. |
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tblue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-16-08 01:52 AM Response to Original message |
8. I'm straight, but I just want to show my solidarity and |
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yardwork (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-16-08 12:50 PM Response to Reply #8 |
32. Thank you for your kind words. You can be assured that I will always fight for your human rights! |
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Fearless (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-16-08 07:08 PM Response to Reply #32 |
41. And I. |
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Ms. Toad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-16-08 02:06 AM Response to Original message |
9. About a month before my 25th birthday. |
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Eryemil (958 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-16-08 02:30 AM Response to Original message |
11. I was 13, on my last year of middle school (8th grade) |
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Eryemil (958 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-16-08 02:32 AM Response to Reply #11 |
12. I'm a 19yo university student now by the way |
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kevinbgoode (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-16-08 02:40 AM Response to Original message |
13. I was 21. . .I came out to my best friend in 1976 |
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piesRsquare (960 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-16-08 02:49 AM Response to Original message |
14. Came in stages... |
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terrya (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-16-08 06:11 AM Response to Original message |
17. I was 22 when I came out to my family |
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Lyric (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-16-08 06:31 AM Response to Original message |
19. 20. My Mom was weird about it for roughly 2 months, and then |
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lightningandsnow (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-16-08 07:47 AM Response to Original message |
21. 13, to pretty much everyone. |
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MNBrewer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-16-08 08:29 AM Response to Original message |
22. I was 21. |
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ColoradoMagician (228 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-16-08 09:17 AM Response to Original message |
23. 19, almost twenty years ago |
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foxfeet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-16-08 10:29 AM Response to Reply #23 |
24. I was 18, a sophomore in college in 1969. |
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GreenFiles (140 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-16-08 11:28 AM Response to Original message |
25. 15 |
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insleeforprez (321 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-16-08 11:45 AM Response to Original message |
26. 17. |
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dsc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-16-08 11:54 AM Response to Original message |
27. to my family 20 |
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yardwork (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-16-08 12:32 PM Response to Original message |
28. 45. I didn't know that I was a lesbian until I was 45. |
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La Lioness Priyanka (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-16-08 12:36 PM Response to Original message |
29. 19, 23, 25, 27, 28: as a bi person i had to come out a lot because every time i dated a boy |
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DarkTirade (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-16-08 07:14 PM Response to Reply #29 |
43. D'oh. I hate that. |
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tjwmason (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-16-08 12:40 PM Response to Original message |
30. Started at 21 |
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GodlessBiker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-16-08 12:54 PM Response to Original message |
33. I was 20. |
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dickthegrouch (838 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-16-08 01:39 PM Response to Original message |
34. 16 (and again at 19) |
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bluedawg12 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-16-08 04:33 PM Response to Original message |
35. Just to be clear: "Came out" means told someone about your identity as gay |
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WillParkinson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-16-08 05:13 PM Response to Original message |
36. I came out in stages.... |
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bluedawg12 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-16-08 05:17 PM Response to Original message |
37. I told a fellow HS student friend who was very politically active |
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Wine and music (18 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-16-08 05:41 PM Response to Original message |
38. Came out... |
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Psyop Samurai (873 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-16-08 07:00 PM Response to Original message |
39. 18 (1975/76) |
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Fearless (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-16-08 07:07 PM Response to Original message |
40. Midnight on my 21st birthday publically, before that privately. |
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DarkTirade (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-16-08 07:13 PM Response to Original message |
42. 19. |
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