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I wouldn't say that I am really "out" of the closet on being a crossdresser. I more or less let a few people know. But I am not openly allowing that secret out for the simple fact that... well.. Working at a church does not give me that option. So I fail. haha

@lol at psuedo-Lesbonic activity.

I came out in the 7th grade to my best friend and slowly to the rest of our class. In the 7th grade, word spreads fast, so pretty much the entire school knew by a week. But I was happy with it, it saved me a lot of explaining to do when I asked my first girlfriend to the formal. Good stuffs. It was a good experience.

I came out to my parents about a year later, and they actually took it very well. I was really scared, but I did get really lucky with it, because I know a lot of people who had a lot of trouble with their "outings" to family, I even know a girl who's grandmother hasn't spoken to her in ages because she came out to her. It's sad. I was very, very lucky and I'm so grateful to have the parents that I have

Well in either grade I thought I was bi but I really didn't know. So I put more thought into it and I figured I was gay. I came out to my friends, and most accepted me. Then the next year, after giving my self plenty of pep talks, I came out to my parents. It was a shock to them, I didn't think it would be. But they accepted me just fine and I'm very happy. :]

I came out to my family recently but since I've never really been in an affectionate relationship with anyone of either sex I just told them that I'm bi-curious to keep the whole "How do you know your bi if you've never kissed a girl before" questions from happening but I know deep down that I'm bi...but without one of my few openly gay friends (he's more like a brother) I would never have understood my strange feelings.

i didn't come out until about a year ago. it was about a year before that that i figured out i was bi but i only told one person. he was bi and helped me figure it out. it was actually somewhat hard for me to accept the fact that i liked girls as well as guys even though i kinda knew since the beginning of puberty. the reason it was hard was because of my mother though many wouldn't think that. my mother is a lesbian and i've grown up with another women in the house. (i do have a biological father just in case anyones wondering. my mom a dad where married before she figured it out.) see i'd seen what my mom had gone through and continues to go through. i remember thinking "i don't want to like girls." i actually saw my mother cry once because she knew that many people, especiallly those in her religion, wouldn't accept her. i didn't want that but finally i accepted myself. first i changed my Facebook looking for. then i physically told most of my college friends. then my other friends. finally i told my mother. i was actually rather frightened. i know bisexuality isn't fully accepted in the gay community and i feared that my mom wouldn't believe me or say the whole "can't you choose?" thing. luckly she was fine with it. i do believe though that she was a little wary but then i began to explain and then she did research and now shes fine. her partner Janice still doesn't know. I know Janice wouldn't accept it because shes actually spoken out about bisexuality before and she grew up in NYC during all the struggles of the 70s. i believes she was even spat on for being a lesbian. i also have not come out to my dad. he was rather hurt when my mother left and hes somewhat homophobic. whenever i talk about boys my stepmom usually makes the comment "well at least its not girls." it really annoys me but i'm afraid to tell him. maybe eventually i will.

also as an aside one of the major reasons my mom said she didn't really accept bisexuality in the past is because she felt it was just an excuse to have extramarital relations. as in "its ok to have sex with him/her because he/shes the same sex as me. its not cheating."

Well I would have done the same for him...when he first came out I was one of the few people who didn't shun him that's when he became like family.

I don't blame you. I wouldn't want to talk to them after that either *hugs*