December2012 |
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Nico | 27 | London, England
"It is also your responsibility to help your parents understand, or at the very least to give them the time to come to terms with your sexuality. You can't ask them to do in a minute, in an hour or in a day. It may have taken you years to come to terms with your sexuality."
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Carl | 28 | Nottingham, England
"It’s funny what you remember and what you seem to forget about really important moments in your life. I don’t actually remember his name or what he looked like but I remember his stubble scratching me and tickling my lip. I remember his aftershave."
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Clare | 30 | Stafford, England
Support to RUCOMINGOUT "It's is a common assumption that lesbians share the same attraction to women as straight men. We don’t.
It is also assumed that lesbians fancy every woman on the planet. We don’t." . . . read more |
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Wayne | 31 | Midlands, England
Founder of RUCOMINGOUT "The most important thing to me, the thing that really gave me hope, was that everyone knew he was gay and they still loved him."
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Michael | 35 | Middlesbrough, England
"I have more issues getting people to accept I don't like cheese as opposed to telling people I'm gay. My story is not interesting, dramatic or life-changing."
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Adam | 31 | Hereford, England
"By the end of 2012 I had told pretty much everyone I had wanted to tell personally, I was out at work in my new job and it wasn’t a big deal to anyone."
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Ellie | 18 | South West England
"I was head cheerleader, dating the captain of the guys basketball team at my college and then I fell in love with the captain of the girls basketball team!"
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Gary | 33 | N Lanarkshire, Scotland
"After a while I told my few male friends at school and they were cool with it too. They asked a couple of questions then we carried on with what we were doing!"
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Jacob | 22 | North Dakota, USA
"Two weeks after my eighteenth birthday I went into the Air Force, wholeheartedly convincing myself I was straight and just had some side issues I needed working out."
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Jamie | 32 | London, England
"I don’t regret wasting all those years frightened to come out as it has taught me how important life is. Things will never be as bad as what you think they will
be."
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Matt | 23 | Essex, England
"By summer 2005 I wasn’t coping very well. I was caught between believing I shouldn’t be ashamed and being terrified of being alone."
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Ben | 21 | Cardiff, Wales
"Coming out to everyone at school was something that I didn’t really have a choice about, in the end. I was at an eighteenth birthday party and ended up having an encounter outside with one of the boys in my year."
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Bill | 86 | London, England
"Very occasionally I went home with men but was always paranoid that someone would find out. More often I just used to go into dark corners - there were a lot because of the blackout - or into disused street air raid shelters."
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