Gays, its summer 2010 so... EVERYBODY TAKE OFF YOUR SHIRTS

I've been out to close friends since summer 08, everyone else p much summer 09 and no family as of now

I did a few close friends one night in the summer between freshman and sophomore year and then family the next day. Knowing my parents were save territory, I knew I needed to do them the favor early on.

safe territory

my parents and i smoked cigarettes right after. it was kind of funny.

then i went and got drunk and did tons of free blow all night.

thoooose were the days, hahaha.

my parents and i smoked cigarettes right after

Haha. Same here.

Yeah. When it's time, it's time. I did just over a year and a half ago, before I got around to the actual reality of being gay in any practical sense, but once I got all my mental ducks in a row and got past all my bullshit, it just sort of happened. Started with like...my three best friends, and within two weeks there was this rush/relief of finally TELLING people. (Not necessarily recommended for everyone/anyone, but you know...you come out when and how you need to. Unless you're a high-ranking member of the Christian Right.)

Anyway, debating my Friday night.

TS: Low-key night in with some wine and a book vs. Body-Painting Party with a bunch of naked hipsters.

The latter, in a heartbeat.

wtf how are you even debating

Um...because it's 12$, and I'm not sure if my friends are going or not. Also, sometimes you just need a break from your crazy hipster neighbourhood.

This Tuesday I lent my speakers to a friend of mine for a screening of a XXX comedy porn called The Cumming of Jizzus at another friend's loft. It's just been that kind of week.

But, yeah, fair enough.

Alex, come to my place: we'll have a glass of white wine before I drive us out to South Beach. I got this pair of jeans that'll make us irresistable.

Huh? I'm confused.

lol. yeah i understand.

I know a place where no hipsters go.

Elko, Nevada?

Hmm. Well, I'm heading home from a family dinner in the 'burbs, so if I get back to my place early enough, then I'll chance it.

hey, gays, join me in saying bye to J0rdan, who returns to Mizzou with a heavy heart. I'll miss him!

Not much diff in air miles to NYC, so I'm not really feelin' yr pain.

My dad was mortally ill before I really started having sex with men, and my mom is an 82-year-old Irish Catholic bingo lady who never even talks about straight sex. So I hate to fly in the face of all that is right and good -- no, actually, I love it -- but there was never any point in telling either of them. Besides my being unboyfriendable.

my coming out was totally bloodless. came out to close friends late 08, decided it wasn't really any sort of secret anymore by spring 09, came out to my immediate fam on my bday that june. still not really out to extended fam except for those who are on my facebook, but i'm sure word has gotten around some and i'm not worried about it either way. the real hurdle for me was coming out to myself, not anybody else

btw ted a punk friend of mine is moving to oakland

I was going to meet up with this guy tonight, but I just messaged him apologizing that I really didn't feel like doing anything after all. He wasn't really my type anyway. :\

Am I the only one whose parents found out vs. voluntarily telling them? You see, when your father is a network security engineer, no amount of covering your online tracks will completely cover your online tracks. But looking back, it's pretty funny to think abt my mom tearfully asking me what a "bear" is with such genuine confusion.

hahaha

i'm pretty sure that my mom & brother & prob father have seen gay porn history on various computers throughout my life

Well I mean there was a "first time" when I was like 12 or 13 I guess? But the therapist told my parents I was probably just "curious" and they clung to that for a while. And so did I, sort of, coz I was going to this super-conservative Christian school and I told myself that I was sexually attracted to men but emotionally attracted to women (looooooooool). But I eventually grew out of this, and when my mom (well, dad) found shit on the computer again 5 years later it was like "oh, uh, sorry mom I'm gay".

Dad was and is totally cool with it, mom is as cool with it as she can be but only when we don't have to deal with it. She flipped out when we both worked at the same place 2 yrs ago and I wanted to tell my co-worker friends. She also is convinced that NO ONE in the family knows and that no one really needs to know, including my 16 year old brother (because it would "confuse" him).

But he already knows, i think, because he asked her once if I was gay and her response was "That's something you'll have to ask your brother"

Yeah my mom found my search engine history when I was 13 but it never came up again. :|

happened w/ my sister

happened to me, too! man that sucked.

My sis found out by reading my journal, left on my desk when she borrowed my computer. How did I learn this? By reading her journal.

ha

I came out to my friends via Livejournal ;_;

I've recounted my coming-out-to-parents story before. Since moving back home the topic has not been broached once but I also have been keeping to myself here mostly.

Morbs I'm at my friend's place in Brooklyn at the moment but I don't know if I'll be seeing any movies today

ah. I will be heading to Metrop tnite if I ever get my writing done. Alleged bubbly at midnight for one of the DJ's birthdays.

if you leave it too long it kinda just gets more difficult partly because you know that people know and it can be harder to tell people things they already know.

but i suppose that's what coming out to close friends is, essentially. i'm gay and i know that you know it so it's cool to talk about it rather than skirt around this elephant.

idk when me and my best friend saw the royal tenenbaums she was all "is margot tenenbaum based on you?" bc of how ridic. private-bordering-on-secretive i am anyway abt everything.

Every time I've told a close friend they didn't believe me.

same exact

get new friends?

just smart, cute all-american boys! who are gay!

(j/k, j0rd and stevie. but actually, that might be right on the money?)

one friend when i told her wondered how i could know if i'd never been with a girl in the first place

btw i saw this last night and it was awesome

http://www.lightindustry.org/piers

bubbly imaginable

i drank a lot of prosecco last night, does that count?

yeah

I will be bringing a large bottle of beer to Mahler's 2nd tonight.

hey, gays, join me in saying bye to J0rdan, who returns to Mizzou with a heavy heart. I'll miss him!

helllllllooooooooooooo! here's to a semester of fucking hot dudes?

Having issues parsing "fucking hot dudes".

fucking dudes who are fucking hot