Do you celebrate your Coming Out Day?

[MidnightPrism]

I didn't come out in one day. For me it was a slow process with just one person at a time.

So there is no day for me to specifically celebrate

 

[eddielee]

I can't remember the day. Anyway, I came out in stages, and not all at once.

 

[biravatch]

I don't have a day either... so I celebrate National Coming Out Day.

 

[triple7]

no, but I can imagine that it would be a joyous occasion filled with friends, family, and semi-nudity

 

[gmoney]

I didn't come out in one day. For me it was a slow process with just one person at a time.

So there is no day for me to specifically celebrate

That's how it was for me too. It's been less than a year, but I couldn't tell you the day to save my life!

 

[BrandonSBCA]

I think my coming out day was September 15th. Not really sure though.

 

[Andreus]

ive never even considered it

 

[GL]

My coming out was a long process as well. As such, I don't have a specific date.

 

[Andreus]

Andreus, I thought the same thing, but perhaps the extent of celebration could be "I''ve been honest with myself for "x" years."

a celebration of personal truths?

what do transgendered people call it i wonder?

 

[looseliam]

a celebration of personal truths?

what do transgendered people call it i wonder?

a celebration of personal misconceptions?

 

[Andreus]

a celebration of personal misconceptions?

well

acnowledging that the gender identity dymorphia is there would be acnowledging a personal truth i think...

i don't know if they call it something else though

i hope one of the transgendered ladies comes by and fills us in

 

[Syn]

My coming out day is May 5th. The year was 2005. It was late at night and I told my best friend and cried for the next few hours on her shoulders. One year after a group of my friends surprised me at dinner for my one year anniversary.

 

[JASON0980]

i came out in stages but i remember the moment i decided to do it. and the first people i told. i think i might start a celebration for it. like a re-birthday. the second life lived freer. good idea.

mine was october 29th

 

[GL]

I think what my friend and I are more thinking was parents. The day you told your parents. I, too, came out in stages.

But I remember the day I old my parents the most.

Ahh... well, I don't recall the exact day but it was mid June 2006. A Sunday to be exact.

 

[doctorsun]

I take it to mean the first time you came out to anyone. That's the biggest step, at least it was for me. I struggled with coming to terms with it myself and the last step in that process was actually telling someone else that I'm gay. It was the scariest thing I had ever done but at the same time, it was the most relieving. I was 17 and to FINALLY have someone else in the world know after spending my entire adolescence hating myself for it was such a huge weight lifted off of my shoulders. It felt great. So, yeah, I do mark the day every year. I don't celebrate or anything; I just think to myself, "wow, it's been X years..." It was September 20, 2002, by the way, so this will be my fifth year.

 

[justsimon]

I inadvertently came out on National Coming Out Day, so the whole country celebrates for me.

 

[G-Lexington]

My coming out was pretty gradual, so no. I've already got enough days to celebrate.

Lex

 

[Kulindahr]

I celebrate it, but it's only come around once so far.
But I celebrate it as far away from my home town as possible, because after word got around in my home town, I get totally ignored, like I wasn't even there, by everyone I knew -- except when someone is writing "Die Fag" on my truck. I also celebrate, quietly, what I think of as "Edge Day" -- when it hit me that my family had walked out on me at Christmas, after losing all those friends, and I was headed for a freeway overpass, to step off the edge... but instead (read it in my blog) I passed over a different sort of edge. That one I celebrate quietly, touching bases with some people who were there for me.

August 18, 2005.
February 12, 2006.

 

[luminum]

The day I came out (January 2nd) to my parents was awful, so I usually go about my business and just reflect on it. I don't know the day that I officially came out to my peers, which was some time in June...

But the point is that I don't.

Once, a friend made me a rainbow scarf because she knew that Jan. 2nd was comign up but then her dog ripped it to shreds so I never got it...

 

[Kulindahr]

Okay, I just cried -- no one's even thought of making me a gift for my coming out day. Wow -- you're fortunate.