Who was the first person you came out to?

[dkonfrost]

definitely the first would be myself, the most important to start with methinks

on the category of another person, it would have to be one of my best female friends. she had no idea up until i told her LOL

 

[HarryPotterHimself]

When I was a senior in high school (last year, lol), I met a guy on the net who knew a gay friend of mine. He insisted I came out to this guy because I needed to come out to someone. He was right, so I came out to him. He was sitting beside me in the computer lab and we were I/M-ing, and I came out to him, lol.

 

[D-Base]

My mom, a couple of hours later: my dad

 

[The_Aviator]

First person I came out to was a guy who I've been really good friends with since I was 4 year old. We went through school together... it was soo easy for me to tell him because he came out to me the week before and told me he was bisexual...

 

[Swellegant]

I think the first person to whom I actually said "I am gay" was Caroline, way back in Sophomore year of high school, and my sister shortly thereafter (the beginning of my chronic disclosure habit). I told my father soon after that, but it was another two years before I told my mother (I was already not talking to her, an argument on a different topic) and then the Grandmother. Grandmother was the only one I worried about... the rest I either knew would understand or I didn't really care what they thought about the issue. Her I was afraid of losing.

But in the event, no one was surprised. I mean, it's not like I wasn't already a big queen, it's only another short step from nelly to gay. Only Grandmother made a fuss about it (she'd had me in therapy for over a year on the assumption that it was curing me... little did she know that my therapist was a lesbian who had spent all that time encouraging me to come out to Grandmother), but most of the time my actually saying I was gay was an academic exercise.