Prom Photos

[MRH]

About 2 years ago I went to the Year 11 prom with my boyfriend. Now at the time I hadn't come out to anyone and the whole gender issues had been pushed to one side. At around this time I had a lot of female clothing because I was trying to convince myself to be more female so I wouldnt have to deal with the desire to be male. The horror was that, with it being the prom, it was all formal wear. For ages I wondered what to do. Go in a dress or in a suit. Well in the end I chose dress. Not because I wanted to wear it but I figured that way my family will be all happy and proud and people probably wouldnt give me funny looks. Also if I wore a suit I think I would of looked like a lesbian. Not that theres anything wrong with that but you know, I like men lol so dont wanna give people the wrong impression. As you can imagine my mum and grandparents took loads of photos. My grandad wanted one of me and him together and on the photo he looks really happy so it saddens me a little. He clearly wanted a picture of his grand daughter looking beautiful in a dress showing how proud he was of me. It makes me wonder....would he ever want a photo of him with his grandson looking handsome and smart in a suit? Even my neighbours wanted a photo of me which made me really uncomfortable lol. As for the prom itself it wasnt that bad and I suppose after a while I forgot how I was dressed.

Maybe now if I get invited to something like this I will be confident to wear a suit. For now though I think I will avoid all things formal .

[Silver]

Hmm, if I ended up going to a prom (unlikely, don't care for it much + expensive) I would wear a suit. I'm not afraid to. Out to my parents, so they would understand.

Everyone else would think I'm a lesbian, but I don't really care. It would increase my chances with women anyway

[brainiac]

I caved and went in a dress. I remember telling my mother that I wanted to go in a suit (which I'd been mustering up the courage to say for months), and she gave me a look and said that it had to be very femininely tailored to look good. Whenever I brought it up again, she'd dismiss it, so eventually I just went with the dress that she picked out for me.

I ended up having as much fun as I could have, anyway*. And I looked good for a girl. It's the "for a girl" part that bothers me.

*(Although at one point I got sandwiched on the dance floor by my ex, who was pulling an extended "I'm breaking up with you slowly and refusing to talk with you about it" and my boyfriend-to-be who I didn't realize I had feelings for yet... that was a confusing feeling).

[shanetastic]

OHHHHH prom! :p

It was a funny experience.  I actually had fun though for back in the day and I was glad I experienced it overall

PS.  Did someone say prom photos!?!?

[LordKAT]

OHHHHH prom! :p

It was a funny experience.  I actually had fun though for back in the day and I was glad I experienced it overall

PS.  Did someone say prom photos!?!?

EEeep! It's peewee Herman!


You look MUCH better now.