Who did you come out to?

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Coming out was so scary for me. It's crazy to think, my uncle is openly gay and so is my sister and yet there I was bricking it.

I knew it wouldn't be a problem for my family, the problem lied with my anxiety and how I would feel about myself. In the end, nothing changed but everything changed at the same time with myself. I finally accepted myself for who I am.

I didn't actually tell anyone I was gay, my mother asked if I was more than friends with my current boyfriend I admitted there was. My mum is such a gossip but in this occasion I let her off. She went and told my entire family over the course of the next few weeks, she was happy for me I think and wanted to share that. This made my life easy since I didn't have to actually tell anyone and haven't needed to talk about it either.

In my adult life people have assumed I am straight but it wasn't always that way, school was terrible for me the physical and verbal abuse made me anxious about coming out and being gay in general but my family have helped erase all that. I wouldn't say that being gay is easy for me either, I am still worried what people may think me and I still wonder would life would be like if I were straight.

What this show, though, [MENTION=24434]oldsoul[/MENTION], is how much society has progressed, in that people don't naturally assume that you're straight anymore. Being gay is an option like any other option, and people are attuned to that. The fact that in Chechnya, for example, they still claim that "THERE ARE NO GAYS!" is anathema to most of our more tolerant societies. And I daresay our societies are healthier for it.