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Nick
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By: Nick
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Hi my name is Nick and I am a 15 year old openly
gay male and this is my story:
When i was in 2nd grade i was always hangin
around girls, never any attraction to them, just
always had friends that were girls. I mean all
throughout elementary school and up to now the
only good friends that I have are girls. When I
was in 6th grade, I went out with a girl for the
first time, even though I did not feel like I
liked her like other guys liked their
girlfriends, and I started to look at guys in a
whole different way. At first I could not accept
it and could never think how me, mr. popular
could look at guys that way. I tried to deny it
and covered it up by going out with all these
girls until 7th grade came.
I really noticed then that I was gay, I never
looked at a girl the way most guys do. I looked
at guys like most girls do. I really started to
accept it then and really liked the lifestyle,
accept I did not want to come out yet. People
started to wonder when they saw me look at guys
or never go out with a girl and I got a lot of
questions from people. I even got questions from
my best friend and I denied it to her as well.
Towards the start of 8th grade I knew for a fact
that I was gay and decided that it was time that
I should come out, so I did. The hardest thing is
when my parents approached me about it and did
not let me decide the time to come out, they said
that they wanted the honest truth if I was gay or
not, so I softened the blow by telling them that
I was bi. They did not react how I thought they
would. My Dad sorta shrugged it off and thought
that it is my decision and he should not try and
stop that (which surprised me a lot) and my Mom
flipped on me, told me that I needed counseling
and everything. So I did I went to counseling and
nothing changed there...but I think after that my
Mom got over the fact of me being gay and
accepted it.
I got mixed reactions from the people at school.
Some guys were fine with it, others weren't, I
think if anything I got a lot more guy friends
after coming out, and I got a lot of people to
accept it. Then we moved. We moved from a
glorious huge city to a small pathetic town, and
I faced the fact of making new friends. I never
did think for one second of coming out here
because it is so small of a school and I did not
know how people would react to it...so I didn't,
for about two weeks. I decided that if I was
going to come out it was now, because I did not
want to get close friends and have them blow me
off for being gay. So I did I came out openly to
a few people and it spread like wildfire. I
finally am totally out now and everyone knows.
Most everyone is fine with it, most all the girls
are, but not guys. There are those selected few
that accept it and I think those are the people
that are secure with themselves.
Sorry for this story being so long, but I have
never had an opportunity to tell it. I will keep
an update in my diary about this under nick14253.
If you read through this, thank you, and I hope
that my story will give you an idea about coming
out if you are not out already.
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