When I came out, my mom dismissed me and said I was following trends, then said I was born a girl, always a girl, and deadnamed me and then threatened to take away my internet. (M/Trans)
Story #2376
When I came out I was 12. It wasn’t my choice and my parents didn’t support me. My friends and aunts do, though 🙂 (F/15/Bi)
Story #2375
When I came out, I handed a note to my friend. I only came out as asexual and she still hasn’t said anything. I am nervous. (F/11/AroAce)
Story #2374
When I came out it took several tries. First, it started with me, then my friends, then my family. It took years for me to be able to be where I am and be comfortable with myself. It took many, many long talks, tears, and hard, difficult days and nights for me to be my true self with the people I care for. Now I am living my best life and am happier than I ever was, knowing that I truly love myself for myself. (F/31/Lesbian)
Story #2373
When I came out as transgender the only one who I felt believed me was my brother. Everyone else said they did but acted like I was still a girl and just a tomboy. One of my bff said I will always be a girl but she just doesn’t understand. My ex best friend yelled at me that I was sinning. To this day she still makes fun of me. It really is hard. (Demiboy/Queer)
Story #2372
When I came out I was a nervous wreck! I couldn’t sleep as I felt I was ready to tell them. So I got up around 11pm and walked up to them. I came out to my close sister the same day that I came out to my mum and dad. I told dad first. I said due to my past I’m gay. And dad said as long as I was happy, and mum said she already knew!!! So I all told my mum’s mum and I didn’t have a very good reaction out of her. She said I was too young to know, which wasn’t true, but I told her again and she accepted me. (F/15/Lesbian/gay)
Story #2371
When I came out I was on this app where messaging people was available — mind you that the app was 18+ and I was definitely not that age — and on that app I was talking to a girl, yk in a more of a friendship kinda way, knowing she was way older, which is besides the point; I know now it was really dumb now. But my mom found these messages. I panicked and thought, “Well, she’s gonna ask something about me messaging a girl,” so I just went “Well, now is a good time to tell you I’m bisexual.” And well, her reaction was not good, and I had a breakdown, so now I don’t bring it up, but hopefully in the future I’ll be comfortably out to her. (F/Bisexual)
Story #2370
When I came out to my friends as pansexual, they were all supportive, being that most of them were already part of it. I’m still questioning right now and haven’t come out to anyone else, but I’m glad to have some of the people I care about most on my side. (Demisexual pansexual)
Story #2369
When I came out to everybody I was living with at the time was on National Coming Out Day. We were eating dinner, I just said it was National Coming Out Day and said I was bi. They didn’t really say much, but there were a few friendly jokes thrown around. I think overall they don’t mind, though. At first everybody acted like I just liked boys, but know I think they have come to normalize the fact that I’m bi. Before that day I just made subtle comments that indicated that I might like girls. They also knew that I liked a girl, but didn’t really know I was bi. (F/14/Bisexual)
Story #2368
When I came out I opted never to tell anyone about being neutrois because I’ve never been motivated enough to educate everyone about non-binary stuff (I’m out to some as acearo). I joined my uni’s lgbt club and was able to adopt a gender-neutral name and they/them pronouns for the first time. I was able to talk about my gender/orientation and queer issues without worrying about any -phobias or having to educate people. I didn’t realise how much I wanted to hear my proper name and pronouns until it happened. We even marched in a historically huge pride parade. Unfortunately, once the competent leader stepped down the rest proved to be performative, incompetent and ableist towards me, so I bailed at the beginning of quarantine. Still, it made me realise that there are queer communities accessible to me. Hopefully the next one is better. (Neutrosis/26/Asexual aromantic)