#comingout — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #comingout, aggregated by home.social.
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The absence of a word is not the absence of a life. It just means somebody spends thirty years finding out what they already knew.
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It felt secretive and illicit and wrong, she said, and they had to hide. A later boyfriend found out and ended it. She didn't think of herself as gay — she dated boys too, and mostly because the language wasn't there to think with.
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Gillian Anderson was eleven when she moved from London to Grand Rapids. In high school there was an older girl, a punk with a nose ring and a mohawk, in a conservative town. Fifty-eight years old now, telling a newspaper what she couldn't tell anyone then.
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I thought that ‘finding myself’ meant that I would find my niche, no matter how small. But finding yourself doesn’t mean ‘finding all the answers’, it more means ‘finding all the right problems to solve.’
https://medium.com/prismnpen/trans-existentialism-i-dont-want-to-be-this-kind-of-animal-anymore-d17492a01b4c?sk=0e8f5fc2728c837a703289ad5163c8ec -
SUCEDE que me canso de ser hombre.
It so happens I am sick of being a man.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/my-transgender-eyes-were-opened-by-the-penetrating-line-of-a-poem-100b0ee66bf8 -
Out Late With David: A podcast for and about people who came out LGBT later in life
https://www.youtube.com/@davidcottoncoaching
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Four weeks ago, I told my traditional Indian parents that I am gay. This was a long time coming; I just needed to build up the courage to say it, and I finally had. I thought the worst day would be that one — saying it, out loud, finally. In retrospect, it now feels like it was almost the easy part.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/my-indian-parents-are-grieving-the-straight-son-they-never-had-61a70b1502a6 -
CW: Transition, family
We have an intermittent "family call" with my mother and sister and Jalan's father and stepmother.
The first one since I started my transition begins soon.
Father-in-law won't be there, just as well. And everybody else has been supportive. But it's still big.
Eye contact in photo
Hashtags follow:
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Something green coming out
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💗💜💙 Erzähl uns, was Bi+ für dich bedeutet.
Mit unserer Community-Befragung möchten wir mehr darüber erfahren, wie Bi+ Personen ihre Identität, Erfahrungen und Zugehörigkeiten erleben.
Es geht unter anderem um:
🌈 Community und Zugehörigkeit
💬 Coming-out und Sichtbarkeit
🧩 Verständnis von Männlichkeit und Maskulinität
🖤 Kink und Fetisch
🧠 Neurodivergenz
⚡ Diskriminierungserfahrungen
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⏱️ ca. 10–20 Minuten
🌈 für alle Geschlechter ab 18 Jahren
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Danke, dass du mitmachst, teilst und Bi+ Lebensrealitäten sichtbarer machst! 💜
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💗💜💙 Tell us what Bi+ means to you.
With our community survey, we want to learn more about how Bi+ people experience their identities, realities and sense of belonging.
The survey includes topics such as:
🌈 community and belonging
💬 coming out and visibility
🧩 understandings of masculinity and masculinities
🖤 kink and fetish
🧠 neurodivergence
⚡ experiences of discrimination
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PD - by olivier LALLART Court-métrage sur l'homophobie (FAG - Gay short film) #LGBT #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #gay #gays #SHORTMOVIE #shortLGBT #homophobie #comingout #harcelementscolaire
Thomas, se découvre une attirance pour Esteban, un autre garçon de son lycée.
La rumeur de son homosexualité se répand et il va commencer à subir le regard des autres.
https://youtu.be/jdrKMlaMAeM?si=2UPse6hMpNJSDfNu -
I didn’t have an answer then. Nobody was asking me to have one yet — not out loud, anyway. But I felt the pressure of it everywhere: the expectation, somewhere down the line, to know. To choose. To stop wondering and start declaring.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/a-queer-young-adult-reflects-on-what-it-means-to-question-alone-f3df7179f749 -
CW: GenderQuest, brief cancer mention, coming out to family (mostly +)
Brother and I also had an honest-to-god phone call yesterday, which went very well!
He knows he was an ass and unsafe to me almost all of my life, but has consciously been working on his character arc in the last four years or so (relating to first cancer diagnosis).
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CW: GenderQuest, coming out to family (mostly +)
Came out last night to in-laws. They were the last and most potentially problematic of the people I interact with regularly and feel the need to contact individually.
I created a group chat with FIL (right-wing asshole), MIL (right-wing, but not asshole), and Jalan, and came out.
Jalan had a follow-up already prepped. Including this:
"If you have questions, you're welcome to ask me. But treating [Linda] with respect and kindness is the price of admission into my life."
I love her....
MIL's response was positive, just asking for room for grace and getting name and pronouns correct, especially early on..
FIL's was brief and neutral. But Jalan really hadn't left any room for them to be negative in response.
So family has ranged from a couple neutral responses to a lot of overwhelmingly positive ones. Winning!
(This also left me room to finish changing over profiles on different social media, since everyone who will see them who needs an individual message has one.)
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I don’t remember how I started. I just remember that at some point the words were out, sitting in the room with us, and I couldn’t take them back.
She didn’t say anything for a second. The TV kept talking to no one.
Then: “Are you okay? Do you want to talk? I’m here for you, you know.”
https://medium.com/prismnpen/it-was-terrifying-to-write-this-coming-out-story-036199cdfe07 -
CW: GenderQuest, family acceptance (+++)
Worth noting, he also out-and-out apologized for making it harder for me to be 'me' when we were growing up.
The whole response was better than I could have hoped.
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CW: GenderQuest, family acceptance (+++)
Today, my brother was the last of the immediately family I came out to.
I didn't know what to expect. He's always been two-thirds an asshole, and bullied me a lot when we were kids, even teens.
His response was beautiful.
I am loved.
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CW: Article parlant de coming-out et d'homophobie parentale
Je poursuis l'exploration de mes souvenirs... Je parle dans ce nouvel article de coming-out et de ma première bande dessinée réalisée lorsque j'avais 15 ans et qui en disait déjà long sur mon orientation... et aussi l'expérience douloureuse de l'homophobie parentale...
Comme d'ordinaire, vos retours sont les bienvenus.
https://blogs.gayfr.social/carnets-de-tout-et-de-rien/un-coming-out-par-bande-dessinee
#gayfr #témoignage #comingOut #homosexualité #homophobie #homophobieParentale #ViolencesFamiliales
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Mom's response started with:
"Wow! Better late than never, for sure." She then recalled an occurrence in my childhood that left her bewildered at the time, but....
Cousin's started with:
"I dont think I could love you more than I do right now"
:heart_trans:
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Came out to my mother and to the cool cousin (singular) today. Both went extremely well. I wasn't sure at all about Mom, but she was on board right away!
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It's okay to just try things, and you can change your mind. You don't have to figure it all out first in order to make a perfect, one time coming out event.
While keeping the wellbeing of yourself and others in mind, go try it out and see if it fits you. It'll be okay.
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I don't recall the year exactly, it would've been circa 2007. But in doing routine maintenance on my mother's devices and accounts, I saw an email she had written to my grandparents, and while the date is bound to be off a tiny bit I will never forget the opening words of the body: “Our worst fears have been confirmed."
I had confirmed for my mother that I was gay and that Ben and I were more than roommates.
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I had only met one #lesbian before, my uncle’s friend, the one I had studied at that gathering years ago and decided I was nothing like. Michelle was my second. And she was so different. Brown hair. Ocean blue eyes. Pink lips you noticed immediately. She looked, I realized, like me.
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sent this to my work group chat, wish me luck 🤞
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in 2007, before he could speak — now eighteen and naming himself on his own terms. Angel Murphy Brown's mother calls him so special and so bright. Eddie Murphy, who spent decades apologizing for the cruelty of his early stand-up, met his son not with a flinch but with a yes.
#TransRights #TransJoy #LGBTQ #Pride #QueerNews #TransMan #FoundFamily #Solidarity #ComingOut #Hope #Family #LoveIsLove
Today's Gathering → https://twp.ai/4hrolA
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ICYMI: Fabricio Lima : le sexy barman qui tarde encore à faire son « coming out familial » https://www.lagaylife.fr/fabricio-lima-sexy-barman-tarde-encore-a-faire-coming-out-familial/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Gay #barman #beaugosse #beaumec #comingout
