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Jane Lynch
The L Word, Best in Show,
The 40-Year-Old Virgin
I had two coming outs and one blip on the radar screen.
First, I first came out in college with a hot faculty member whose identity and department will remain nameless as that sort of teacher/student thing is frowned upon. ... READ MORE |
Alec Mapa
Desperate Housewives,
Ugly Betty
Coming out, standing in my own truth has been the most liberating, life affirming thing I've ever done, personally or professionally. One of the most ironic things about my life is that I initally worried what effect coming out would have on my career when the truth is, I really didn't have one until I did. ... READ MORE |
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Kenneth Walsh
Kenneth in the (212)
I came out in college during Thanksgiving break in 1988, and my mom acted as if she was completely shocked. It was kind of hard to believe, though ... READ MORE
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Waymon Hudson
Founder and president of Fight OUT Loud
Contributor at Bilerico and HomoPolitico
I was always different. I had a crush on Luke Skywalker, sang and danced along to Debbie Gibson and played with Barbies. Not exactly your typical farm boy.
By high school, I was labeled as the token queer. I continued to deny it publicly but privately started trying to find out all I could about being gay. ... READ MORE |
Pam Spaulding
PamsHouseBlend.com
I came out in my late 20s. When I came out to my mother, it was fairly anticlimactic. She wasn’t particularly angry ... READ MORE
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Greg Hernandez
Out in Hollywood
I used to dread October 11 because it is National Coming Out Day. Now, I write a daily blog called Out In Hollywood and being an openly gay man is a part of my everyday life ... READ MORE |
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My mother asked me who I was dating. I told her I had nothing romantic going on. Apparently, that was all she needed to move ahead with her plan to fix me up with a man.
His name was Norman. All I heard was Norman this and Norman that. I think she was the one who was in love with him ... READ MORE
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Beside myself, I said, you've always taught me that God created us equal, and this is no different. If I could not be who I am within my family, then perhaps I should not be here. ... READ MORE
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My parents ended up disowning me after my coming out. I was told that if I stepped foot on their property, they would have me thrown in jail. I was cut off from my family, financially and emotionally. ... READ MORE
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I'm now actively involved in the Episcopal Church with my music and they accept me for who I am. A loving child of God. Through recovery and trip with substance abuse and many unresolved trysts, I am today a stable healthy secure gay man. I owe it to my friends, gay and straight, and my former wife and best-friend ... READ MORE
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I ended up telling these two young women that I was gay and did not know how to fit into the world. I was blessed; each one of them came out to me ... READ MORE
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One day, a group of gang members approached me before school started and asked me if I was the guy who had started the gay group on campus. Trembling, I answered, "y..Yeah" and their response was, "... We have a lot of respect for people like you." READ MORE
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I discovered that I was different from all the other little girls at 13, when I had a strange obsession with Sporty Spice from the Spice Girls and sneaked Playboy with some of the guys in my P.E. class. ... READ MORE
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Coming out enabled me to fully express myself and build the confidence to live my life powerfully. It allowed me to ... treat others with the compassion and sensitivity I wanted for myself but felt I didn’t deserve. ... READ MORE
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I always thought I wanted to be like that guy and not with that guy until I met Rhett. The relationship was so perfect and it felt so wonderful that such a warm loving relationship could never be doomed in the eyes of God ... READ MORE
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Before I graduated, I received an e-mail from a freshman boy who thanked me for the work I had done and the example I set because he was considering suicide when he read my story in the college newspaper. He had come out and was the happiest he had ever been ... READ MORE
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As with my grandmother, I didn't know whether to be touched by his nonchalance or angered by his attempt to push me back into the closet ... READ MORE
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My aunt laughed and told me that I should tell my mother and allow her to grow as she needed. She obviously didn’t know my mother. Needless to say I was not in agreement with my aunt about telling my mother, so she did it for me. ... READ MORE
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My chioce was to either live in fear or live with love and acceptance in my heart. I have done just that! READ MORE
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I was so excited that the next time I saw my parents, I said, "Guess what? I'm going to cohost Pride Time Television, a program for gay, lesbian, and bisexuals in Boston" without even thinking about what I was telling them. READ MORE
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The longer I waited, the harder it became to come out. In the meantime, I suffered through those heart-wrenching lesbian break-ups without the ability to lean on my family for support. I felt lonelier and lonelier as the years passed. READ MORE
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As steady and evolving as my coming out process has been, the most difficult moments were those in which I wasn't sure that I was a lesbian. There was something about the word that didn't quite fit. Like a shoe half a size too small, it was uncomfortable and confining. Then I met a transgender man. I realized that I was not a woman. ... As I continued to pretend, for the first time striving for acceptance, I observed those around me and stumbled upon another problem: I was not a man. READ MORE |
