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Adrian | 33 | Singer/Dancer | London
"I wanted to be with him all the time and whenever he text me my tummy turned over with excitement. This was a different feeling, one that I hadn’t had before but I liked it!"
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Caroline | 27 | Edinburgh, Scotland
"My Gramps lent over to me and said, ‘Well you’ve done well for yourself. She’s a nice bit of crumpet’. Now you can’t get better than that!"
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Dan Sells | 33 | Musician | London
"I was in a junk shop with one of my mum's and I spotted some 60's Poole pottery in egg shell blue. As I went for it with my eyes all lit up with excitement and she said, “You've got to be gay, right?” “Yes” I replied, and that was it.
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Bobby | 25 | Reality TV Star | Essex
"I find it so strange when people ask “why did you choose to be gay?” It’s such a crazy question that I can’t find the words to answer it. No one would “choose” to be gay, you are born gay.. FACT!"
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Sam | 28 | Stoke | Social Worker
"Then, one day at a friend's party, completely unplanned, I called one of my best friends to one side and - heart racing and through held breath - blurted out "I'm gay".
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Pete | 34 | London | Creative Director
"I didn't exactly know that at the time as I'd never been in love before, and it took my friend to explain it to me that what I was experiencing was love and not food poisoning."
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Emma | 31 | London
"I knew I was gay when I was 14. During a game of ‘truth or dare one of my school friends asked me. I could feel myself going bright red and then said "no". I knew I was lying and I think they did too."
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Kirsty | 33 | Bedford | Support Worker
"I was about 14 when I realised that I was different from the rest of my classmates; that I was a girl who fancied other girls and not boys like the rest of my peers."
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Kyle | 26 | Leeds | Retail/Musician
"I can honestly say that even though I do not speak to my family too much about relationships etc, they still love me for the person I am today."
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Tom | 27 | Derbyshire
"Well I guess the way to start this is with a question. "Am I coming out?"
Well, 'not yet' is my response and that’s due to a few factors." Read more . . . |
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James | 29 | Hove | Fraud Investigator
"It was such a relief to have someone who wasn't gay accepting the fact that I was."
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Dan | 31 | Hastings | Musician
"The world is our playground and our time here is far too short and improbable to let archaic views on gender and sexuality prevent us from doing what we really want to do."
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Hayley | 32 | Bedford | Homeless Worker
"He is my best friend and if I ever need any advice he will be the first person I’d turn to. We have always clicked and we have so much in common, the main thing being of course, our love for the male species!"
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Sare | 21 | Stoke | Customer Advisor
"Just because I'm gay it doesn't mean I'm any different from everybody else.
It doesn't mean that I'm not equal to everybody else, because I am." Read more . . . |
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Dwysan | 40 | Wales | Practice Manager
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Phil | 22 | Manchester | Writer
"The burdens and pressures of family and society, force you to internalize your spark and live life quietly. But I promise you that it gets better, no need to detail your sorrows in a farewell letter."
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Paddy | 46 | London | Journalist
"I made coming out as complicated as possible. I did it in stages, like a kind of strip tease. Off came one glove here - telling a friend - or another glove there - telling a stranger in a bar."
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Tim | 23 | Nottingham | Youth Worker
"It was only when I was sixteen, in the middle of my final year, that I started to unravel the covers and reveal myself."
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Daniel | 32 | London | TV/Film Actor
"No strange looks, no fists and no segregation! I couldn't believe that no one cared. For the first time in my life I felt like I fitted in."
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Robert | 27 | Derbyshire
"There were a few soaps on TV with characters Coming Out as gay or discovering their sexuality and my parents always used to make it clear that they thought it was wrong."
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Nick | 22 | London | I Blame Hollywood
"I knew that I was gay but hadn’t yet
had that defining moment where I actually said it out loud." Read more . . . |
