National Coming Out Day

[Scarface]

If you don't have anything positive to add to this thread then please do not post in it. This is more so for acceptance than anything, but anyway I hope you enjoy. This video is dedicated to those 6 teenagers that lost their lives due to bullying...

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[skinny_white_boy]

This was just awesome. You're really brave in my eyes to make this video and not only share it with us but with all of YouTube too. It's truly an inspiration for me' and will be for many others. Thanks for the great video and advice :)

[willrod]

Thank you so much for this video- what with so many people still intolerant of gays, I think this video is an inspiration for people to stand up and be proud of who they are. I honestly believe that the more people see that we're just normal, everyday people, the sooner that we'll be given equal rights.

[welcome_to_chaos]

i didnt think it was possible to have this many tears on my face w this big a smile...thank u again this really needed to be said. i can relate to this in so many ways

[Lonely_Shadow]

Thank you for this post, Goose. Hopefully it opened the eyes of those people who are gay to be proud, and those who bully them and or harass them to leave them be. there aren't many words to describe this. Amazing job.

[disassociation2016]

Awesome Ronnie, I was really looking forward to this!

[thatgolferboi]

My story. There are views in this story that I do not personally hold, but they are things that have affected my life. I am not spreading hate, I am relating what I have gone through.
My name is Mark; I am currently less than a month away from my twentieth birthday. I have grown up in a very conservative Judeo-Christian family. My whole life I have grown up hearing the words “being gay is wrong.” I have always preferred male company. Which, most kids do as well. The “girls have cooties” stage. I started noticing a sexual attraction around the age of eleven, and it was towards boys. I hoped and prayed that it was just a phase. I refused to believe that I might possibly be gay. Being gay is wrong. It is not ok. Or, at least that’s what I had been taught. I began praying very hard, because God can do all things and if I was an abomination, I hoped that He would be merciful and change me. I read books, I tried online “turn yourself straight” courses. I read stories from Exodus International, and NARTH (National Association of Research and Treatment for Homosexuality). When I was seventeen, I joined a Christian teen forum site, and I met Matthew. Matthew is a gay Christian. I began talking to him, and he ended up getting me to accept myself. It was a long difficult process, but when I turned 18, I began to identify myself as a Bisexual Christian. When I came out on CTF, I was met with many hateful comments. I became very depressed. In April 2009, I went to a concert in Dallas. It was a final fun event. I had a plan worked out. When I got home, I planned on taking a bottle of pills. I had a note already written and ready. One band in the concert was Tenth Avenue North. They did a song that night that forever changed my life. The song was called “By Your Side”. “And I'll be by your side
Wherever you fall. In the dead of night Whenever you call. And please don't fight These hands that are holding you. My hands are holding you” This song is what saved my life. Matthew was still working on me. He challenged my confession of being bisexual. Just after my nineteenth birthday, I finally completely accepted myself as gay. I am not ready to come out to my family, because of the beliefs of my family. However, I know that I am gay, and God loves me for who I am. If you are in the place I was the night of that concert, please find a way to contact me or someone else. Your life is worth more than a bottle of pills, a gun, or a knife. There is always hope.
Thank you for reading.

[disassociation2016]

My story. There are views in this story that I do not personally hold, but they are things that have affected my life. I am not spreading hate, I am relating what I have gone through.
My name is Mark; I am currently less than a month away from my twentieth birthday. I have grown up in a very conservative Judeo-Christian family. My whole life I have grown up hearing the words “being gay is wrong.” I have always preferred male company. Which, most kids do as well. The “girls have cooties” stage. I started noticing a sexual attraction around the age of eleven, and it was towards boys. I hoped and prayed that it was just a phase. I refused to believe that I might possibly be gay. Being gay is wrong. It is not ok. Or, at least that’s what I had been taught. I began praying very hard, because God can do all things and if I was an abomination, I hoped that He would be merciful and change me. I read books, I tried online “turn yourself straight” courses. I read stories from Exodus International, and NARTH (National Association of Research and Treatment for Homosexuality). When I was seventeen, I joined a Christian teen forum site, and I met Matthew. Matthew is a gay Christian. I began talking to him, and he ended up getting me to accept myself. It was a long difficult process, but when I turned 18, I began to identify myself as a Bisexual Christian. When I came out on CTF, I was met with many hateful comments. I became very depressed. In April 2009, I went to a concert in Dallas. It was a final fun event. I had a plan worked out. When I got home, I planned on taking a bottle of pills. I had a note already written and ready. One band in the concert was Tenth Avenue North. They did a song that night that forever changed my life. The song was called “By Your Side”. “And I'll be by your side
Wherever you fall. In the dead of night Whenever you call. And please don't fight These hands that are holding you. My hands are holding you” This song is what saved my life. Matthew was still working on me. He challenged my confession of being bisexual. Just after my nineteenth birthday, I finally completely accepted myself as gay. I am not ready to come out to my family, because of the beliefs of my family. However, I know that I am gay, and God loves me for who I am. If you are in the place I was the night of that concert, please find a way to contact me or someone else. Your life is worth more than a bottle of pills, a gun, or a knife. There is always hope.
Thank you for reading.

I would've never guessed. So many inspirational stories on this website.

[Ender]

Ronnie, you've said so much in your short video. This could easily give some people that little push they need to participate in this day. I'm not quite there yet :P , as far as i'm concerned everyone who needs to know about me already does. I really really do love this video though. :hug: You're amazing bro.

[Emo_Boii]

That was so awesome :) It made me cry a little :')

[nick]

Good on you Ronnie

[The Dark Lord]

that was very thought provoking and moving ronnie

[Buddy]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Br7nbQSIyhg
i thought this was touching

[TheAppleGeek]

why is it that there r no hot gay guys in my school, but soooooo many outside my state. Like y cant i be wit anthony from the video????