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Pete | 36 | Manchester, England
"Whenever you decide to come out, there is no right or wrong time to do it.
You'll just know when the time is right for you." . . . read more |
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Alun | 32 | Cardiff, Wales
"I couldn't quite believe that I'd told someone the truth about me.
Not just that, I'd told someone and they hadn't snubbed me, walked off, been sick on me, hit me or had a brain hemorrhage." . . . read more |
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Chris | 24 | Brighton, England
"If someone had told me when I was 16 that within eight years I would own a house, be working for the Police and be married I would never have believed it!"
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Sion | 27 | Manchester, England
"I was on the dance floor dancing with my friend when I noticed the older lad walking over to me. I thought he was going to talk to me but instead he walked straight past and grab my bum as he passed."
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Beverley Knight | 38 | London, England
"My oldest childhood friend finally came out to me about 8 years ago.
I had already been a vocal supporter of the LGBT community for years at that time and had always known he was gay. " . . . read more |
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Emma | 24 | Tamworth, England
"Before I knew it the whole family knew. I expected loads of questions to be fired at me but nobody seemed bothered.
It was like a weight had been lifted off my shoulders." . . . read more |
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Bryan | 30 | Reading, England
"Growing up as a lad on a sheep farm in rural Western Australia, I knew enough to know that wasn’t something to aspire to be."
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Dom | 27 | Coventry, England
"As it happened, I came out in the end because I was obliterated by an unwise volume of ‘dark and stormy’ cocktails (rum, ginger beer and lime) at a house party."
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Sean | 21 | Essex, England
"Remember, however much you feel you know your family you don’t know how they will react until you finally take the plunge. But you don’t have to do that until you’re ready."
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Mark | 33 | London, England
"When I think about how difficult my life was back then and how bleak my future seemed to me, I would love to be able to tell my younger self that things will turn out fine."
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Craig | 23 | West Midlands, England
"Coming Out is one of the biggest things a gay person will do, regardless of the reaction it gets. Once you are out you really do feel a huge weight has been lifted off your shoulders. You feel free."
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Ciaran | 28 | Belfast, Northern Ireland
"I'm a straight man with a number of gay mates. Two of these have been friends since my school days and I knew them both before they came out.
Both are now happily adjusted guys but they had very different Coming Out experiences." . . . read more |
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Cherelle | 24 | Birmingham, England
"My 18th birthday was horrible. I spent it trying to put on a happy face when deep down I was crying on the inside."
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