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Grex > Glb > #32: Coming Out Stories | |
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orinoco
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Coming Out Stories
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Aug 23 03:44 UTC 1998 |
I was kind of surprised when I saw nobody else had entered one of these
first. So, here it is - stories, anyone?
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orinoco
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response 1 of 254:
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Aug 23 03:58 UTC 1998 |
Most of my friends were just fine with it when I came out to them; there were
only a couple friends I didn't feel comfortable telling, but the others all
found out pretty quickly. But the best stories come from the few people who
didn't find out for a while. One night, I got a phone call from a friend of
mine who was one of those people I hadn't told, because she was very, very
gossippy. She also tries to play matchmaker, and had been trying to hook me
up with someone who I wasn't interested in at all. So that night, she was
spending the night with another friend who I'd come out to a while back, and
she had been complaining that her ploy to find me a girlfriend hadn't been
working. Jokingly, she made some comment about how I was probably gay, and
my other friend - I suppose not knowing what to say - said she should call
me and ask. So she did, and I came out to her once I'd stopped laughing, which
took her as a total surprise - she'd thought the whole thing was some sort
of prank on me.
Unfortunately, the next thing out of her mouth was "ooh, now we'll have to
find you a boyfriend."
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starwolf
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response 2 of 254:
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Aug 25 18:04 UTC 1998 |
<G>
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snowth
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response 3 of 254:
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Aug 25 20:41 UTC 1998 |
(The only reason I told her to call you was simply to watch her reaction from
the other side of the phone. It was pretty funny... you really missed out.
;)
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snowth
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response 4 of 254:
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Aug 25 20:43 UTC 1998 |
(Besides which, Dan, I think the truffle doesn't get it story is funnier
anyway. So there.)
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orinoco
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response 5 of 254:
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Aug 25 20:56 UTC 1998 |
(Fine, but I'd rather not be the _only_ one talking in here....hint hint...:)
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bjorn
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response 6 of 254:
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Aug 26 06:15 UTC 1998 |
I don't have too much of a coming out story . . . but I will tell what little
there is at a later date.
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jazz
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response 7 of 254:
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Aug 26 14:28 UTC 1998 |
Hahahahah, tell us the diaper story!
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bjorn
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response 8 of 254:
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Aug 26 17:47 UTC 1998 |
The diaper story will also come about, but at an even later date than the
story of the realization of my dominantly gay bisexuality.
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bjorn
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response 9 of 254:
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Aug 28 15:04 UTC 1998 |
Before I actually get around to telling the whole of either, I think that it
is impertive for you to know that fragments of both the coming out and diaper
story are within this conferences first item. Or maybe it's just a fragment
of the diaper story, I forget what it is I wrote back then.
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bjorn
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response 10 of 254:
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Aug 28 18:41 UTC 1998 |
The coming out story part 1:
Community High Graduation - 1992, I was sitting on the balcony, awaiting the
end of graduation to show appreciation for the only "friend" I had among the
seniors - Britain (I'm really tempted to type his middle names) Woodman. He
had complained about how he wasn't going to graduate all through P.E. second
semester. So as I was sitting there, I was pondering how exactly to show my
affection to him for (at that time anyway) being such a good friend.
Thoughts of both the usual graduation hug, as well as more eleborate plans
ripe with homosexual overtones race through my head. About halfway through,
I got mad with all this thinking and declared to myself that I was
heterosexual. When graduation ceremony had finally come to an end, I was
waiting to show affection to my friend. Right before it was my turn, I saw
Julia Doeble french kiss him and my mind started spinning again. When that
was done with, I didn't hug him so much as clench him with tears rolling down
my cheeks and I told him "I love you and I'm going to miss you." He
reaffirmed me by telling me that he would be back. Then I called my parents
from the pay phone by Thanos (I didn't want to use the ones in the Michigan
Theatre as crowded as it was), they came, I went home, and told my parents,
paternal grandparents and maternal grandmother about the expierence of the
end portion of the night. I was still feeling pretty heterosexual when I went
to bed that night.
End of Part 1.
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joe
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response 11 of 254:
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Aug 31 05:06 UTC 1998 |
that was interesting. I'm eagerly awaiting part 2.
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bjorn
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response 12 of 254:
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Aug 31 12:58 UTC 1998 |
I am awaiting having enough perceived time to write part 2. I'm also sorry
that my "short" story isn't as short as I thought.
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orinoco
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response 13 of 254:
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Aug 31 16:06 UTC 1998 |
They rarely are.
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bjorn
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response 14 of 254:
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Aug 31 16:43 UTC 1998 |
True enough. I think I'll tell part 1 of the diaper story next.
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bjorn
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response 15 of 254:
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Sep 2 15:46 UTC 1998 |
After jazz's stunt in synth, I must decline to tell the diaper story on Grex.
While it is a coming out story, it is one better put to being heard. The only
reason I was ever going to post it here was because of jazz, but since I just
lost respect for a person I never gave any to to begin with, forget it. I
may have the sexuality coming out story's next part posted by tomorrow
morning. Don't count on it though. I know people don't want to see my
personal problems, but sometimes I have to show who I am mad at in order for
the outside world to comprehend my actions. Thank you.
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brighn
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response 16 of 254:
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Sep 3 06:54 UTC 1998 |
I'd be interested in seeing the stories. You can mail them to me if you want
to share and don't want to do so publicly.
It's too bad when callous arrogance destroys another person's ability to feel
safe.
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jazz
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response 17 of 254:
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Sep 3 11:32 UTC 1998 |
Oh, I'm not concerned about the goofy e-mail threats, Paul ... :P
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bjorn
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response 18 of 254:
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Sep 3 13:35 UTC 1998 |
Even though I'm trying to ignore you jazz, there was no threat. Only a
statement of truth that included a fraction of my anger with you.
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keesan
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response 19 of 254:
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Sep 3 17:33 UTC 1998 |
This is confusing, if you want to continue this discussion in this item, could
you explain what parts of it have been conducted by e-mail? Or else go back
to the main subject?
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brighn
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response 20 of 254:
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Sep 3 20:15 UTC 1998 |
John, you really do need to learn when to back off of somebody.
Someday you're going to get your head blown off by a stalker who has even lles
of a sense of humor as Bjorn.
(And that wasn't a threat, just a generic prediction.)
Bjorn, don't me regret supporting you on this. Leave John alone, too. goodness
knows, if he hasn't learned when a joke isn't funny from dealing with me for
these years, he probably won't until aforementioned stalker breaks in.
ITWBWD?
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orinoco
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response 21 of 254:
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Sep 3 22:42 UTC 1998 |
("ITWBWD"? I seem to be temporarily acronym-impaired)
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jazz
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response 22 of 254:
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Sep 3 23:56 UTC 1998 |
Allright, that's a request, Paul, if a somewhat off-centre one. I'll
let this stand, and people can make their own decisions based on what they've
read ...
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bjorn
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response 23 of 254:
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Sep 4 05:11 UTC 1998 |
I guess my twit filter isn't working as well as I thought. O well.
Fine, I can leave alone as well. I'm trying to alleviate negative karma not
rack up more of it.
keesan, there have been no parts of the sexuality nor diaper coming out
stories carried over e-mail as yet.
Anyway, getting back to the sexuality coming out story, about 5 years passed
and I only thought of my sexuality on occassion not enough to really hold more
than an hour of conversation . . .
This is my lead in for part 2, but I'll leave for now.
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brighn
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response 24 of 254:
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Sep 4 15:02 UTC 1998 |
ITWBWD = Is that what Buddha would do? It's a joke on "WWJD" - "What Would
Jesus Do"... John (Jazz) is a Buddhist, and sometimes he even acts like one.
=}
Anyway, thank you John and Bjorn.
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