Two things inspired the topic for today’s Random Question. The first was that video from last week, in which a teary-eyed military hunk came out to his father. The second was a very touching thread on our less-slutty brother blog, DNotes. Basically, we’re suckers for hearing other folks’ coming out stories.
So what do you say? Who’s the first person you told that you love sucking dick? Granted, we assume you didn’t use those exact words (though we imagine that’d make for a very good story)… But, in all seriousness, leave a comment with your own personal experience. Make us laugh! Make us cry! Make us hard!
– Dewitt
Photo credit: Samuel O’Toole
well i was talking to my best friend in highschool on AIM and she was joking about wanting a gay best friend to go shopping and such with and knowing for a while that i was i just said i was gay and she was like NO WAY.
To a friend, and he allready knew
My parents. No other way to do it in my mind, but I was lucky that I had an open and loving family.
My girlfriend…and she had sorta figured it out already. Then my brother..who’d known for years. Then my best friend…”Yeah, I thought so”. Then my Mom who was not surprised at all. REALLY??? All that agonizing for NOTHING? I wish everyone could be so blessed. It took that moment for me to realize that I have surrounded myself with good people.
One of my best friends from grade school who turned out to be a lesbian. W00t!
Well, the first person I told was my first online hook up. But the first person I already knew was a friend of mine in college.
My Grandmother LOL, because i planned to come out to all my friends and family at my birthday party and she wasn’t going to come. So I told her first then came out to everyone else at the party at the same time. I don’t think I had the guts to go through with it more than twice 😀
My mother… Â I was 3 years old. My mother has a recording of us where she was interviewing us kids and when she asked me if I was a boy or girl, I replied, “Well I am not a boy”. From there, my family thought of me as the, “Pink sheep of the family”.
The first person I came out to was my friend my sophomore year in college. She was talking about being bisexual and how her parents didn’t know, and I let on a little that I was interested in men. Eventually I just started making comments about men in front of her, however I never actually said “I’m gay.” The first person  I said the words “I’m gay” to would be my roommate from freshman year in college. I told him during our Junior year.
I told my brothers first. All older than me, and the one who I was still in High School with was incredibly defensive of me, and would have kicked the shit out of anyone who messed with me. Then the older ones, because they lived faraway and it was easy. Beisides, being the baby of four boys, I am always going to be different!
myself
Year i should get around to that
I told a staunch Catholic I only knew from the net first – figured if I could hold my own against his religious ire I might stand a chance of being able to defend myself against arguments from family and friends – it seemed to work, I told most of them within a month or so.
To must 4 best friends! I was 16! Two weren’t surprised and one couldn’t stop laughing! but was the best moment when I realized I wasn’t scared of who I am!
I told my oldest son and his wife at lunch. Middle son at 4pm. Ex-wife at about 5pm. Youngest son at 6pm. Then my three sisters and brother (via phone- they’re on the east coast) after that. End of day one of coming out. Told sixty peope within the next three weeks. My friends called it the scorched earth policy… Generally,it went well. My middle son was relieved because he thought I was going to tell him I was dying or something (I generally never asked him to meet me that time of day). My youngest sister, when asked if she had any idea, said “Well, I thought that you were just in touch with your feminine side. Very in touch”. My brother asked me one question, and to this day (12 years later) this is the total extent of our conversation on me coming out. After I told him, there was a pause and then he asked “Who leads when you dance”?
I was on a long ride to a concert with my brother, we were having a nice conversation and, suddenly, he came out to me. After hearing him talk, I told him about me. Our relationship has never been better since then, except for the fact that we like the same guys most of the time hahaha.
As a baby of a family of five. I was the only one who made my old man cry. Oh yeah, the mother tried to pray the gay away. Some of us Gay men especially you guys on Manhunt are lucky to be surrounded by people who tolerate us.
Then there are teenagers kicked out of their homes for coming out to their parents. They are the ones I pray for. If I could, I would adopt or foster those lost ones. Just to show that there is still some good in this harsh world.
Wish you could have adopted me. Was kicked out in the middle of the winter, a month after coming out to the family.Â
Came out to my best friend first. She (along with everyone else I started to come out to recently) don’t believe it until I show them a certain app (would love to say it is manhunt but its not that great for grinding…)
I told my friend Sandi, just after I arrived home from college before I moved away to complete my externship. She responded, “Yeah, we already knew.” LMAO!!!
A girl I was friends in high school… I dont think she was interested in knowing… lol