How did you come out?

[MTB1997]

The title says it all; How did you come out of the closet? Did you come out full force (telling everyone and anyone) or did you come out slow (telling only very close friends/family)?

[Hey-Im-Connor]

I havent come out yet. i dont really know how

[Gamma Male]

I came out to my close family with a letter, and everyone else with a text.

[Cognizant]

Well, at first I went slow. I found out that I was really irrational when it came to timing when telling people individually (I woke my dad up at 4AM to tell him I was bi), so then i was like "eh, i got nothing to loose" and made a Facebook post about it.

I'm really glad i did :)

[ksdnfkfr]

When me and my friend who slept over came downstairs for breakfast, my dad told us our parents already knew about us, and were okay with it, and we didn't deny it. And my cousin already knew. But that's all so far.

[backjruton]

I think my family always had the feeling but I came out in the middle of an argument about something completely unrelated to try and switch subject...

Then last month my mum asked me again, because even though I avoid talking to her a lot of the time she still wants to know about how I'm feeling, so I told her I'm gay (I think... again) but that's still not all of it. I came out the day before in college to the people that were in the workshop I got around so now the message spread across to the whole group; but surely being gay doesn't mean I can't form a relationship with a female friend (if I wanted to, I get the feeling she'd be the same anyway) if there's no sexual anything... I most likely wouldn't want physical contact anyway, because being tapped on the back and stuff makes me feel quite weird but I don't know how this would extend to that... I still need to tell people about the oversensitivity and other things but I feel and sound stupid enough already :D:kitty:

[Bolwing]

My parents asked me if there was something wrong (I was trying to come out to no avail for a while, couldn't bring myself to say that I am gay, and was getting noticeably distraught due to my lack of success), and kept pressuring me into answering. So I blurted out "Well, you aren't going to fucking like this. I'm fucking gay (I have a tendency to curse when under pressure).

Turns out that my parents suspected that I might be gay for a while, and were completely okay with it.
They were more worried about my vulgar language than they were about me being gay, in fact.

Then I came out to a friend of mine via a Facebook message. At first he was afraid that I was going to hit on him, but all is well now.

[LiamC]

- My male best friend (at the time, we're not as close now but still) on Facebook, I wanted to find out who was crush with so promised to tell him mine, which was a boy ofc.
- My female best friend, she told me she was bi (she thought she was anyway, she says she isn't attracted to girls now) and I said I was gay
- Another close male friend by text, it just random as I was getting closer to him and didn't like lying to such a close friend anymore
- Another one of my male friends, again just randomly
- Everyone found out when I answered a question on ask.fm, I always said no if asked whether I was gay but I was fed up of lying so just said yes.

[plebble]

I'm not gay myself, but if I were and being the mysterious person I am (no one knows anything about me, not even my parents), I'd just kiss my boyfriend (if I had one) right in front of them and let them figure it out for themselves. I enjoy surprising people.