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Title: Coming Out... A Second Time?
Post by: Shana A on October 17, 2008, 03:43:12 PM
Post by: Shana A on October 17, 2008, 03:43:12 PM
Coming Out... A Second Time?
Filed by: Jason Tseng
October 17, 2008 10:00 AM
http://www.bilerico.com/2008/10/coming_out_as_not_gay.php (http://www.bilerico.com/2008/10/coming_out_as_not_gay.php)
I had the not uncommon coming out experience for many kids of my generation:
Boy finds out in middle school that he likes boys. Boy represses all of that until he comes out in a flurry of dramatic over-the-top fabulousness in high school. Parents disapprove, cue angst. Shortly followed by reconciliation during college years where boy learns to be himself and not a stereotype... which can ironically be pretty stereotypical. A few years of dating men and living the good ol' gay life and I'm set for the classic narrative of boy meets boy, cue sunset... right?
Or so I thought. Until I fell... for a woman.
Filed by: Jason Tseng
October 17, 2008 10:00 AM
http://www.bilerico.com/2008/10/coming_out_as_not_gay.php (http://www.bilerico.com/2008/10/coming_out_as_not_gay.php)
I had the not uncommon coming out experience for many kids of my generation:
Boy finds out in middle school that he likes boys. Boy represses all of that until he comes out in a flurry of dramatic over-the-top fabulousness in high school. Parents disapprove, cue angst. Shortly followed by reconciliation during college years where boy learns to be himself and not a stereotype... which can ironically be pretty stereotypical. A few years of dating men and living the good ol' gay life and I'm set for the classic narrative of boy meets boy, cue sunset... right?
Or so I thought. Until I fell... for a woman.