Coming Out...Same Sex or Opposite Sex First?

Best friend - who is a gay male.

 

Boy(he's bi with a stronger leaning towards boys). He is my best friend and it went well.

 

i told a female friend i find it easyer than other guys as they are well a bit more well stereotypical straight :S

 

Same sex. I didn't pick her because of her gender, though. I'd already been coming to her with concerns about going into teaching, and I already knew her values were roughly comparable to mine. One evening I was feeling really, really terrible and confused and miserable and just sort of let it all out! And she was, and has been since, really, really sweet and helpful.

She's a fantastic person to talk to, because she questioned herself too, AND is a fine arts teacher in a bible belt state, so she's had some excellent input and advice as far as that goes. =D

 

My best friend, who is a girl. She was questioning herself around the same time as I started (though she's since decided that she's straight) so we had a few discussions about it.

 

The first person I came out to was a gay guy I went to high school with.

 

The first person I told was a gay male I went to university with. I'm not bestest friends with him or anything, but I told him because he was gay.

 

Outside of my family, the only person I have told is one of my male friends.

 

Opposite sex.
Now I think about though, I should have told my friend who is a gay male first. It would've been a wholeeeee lot better.

 

Same sex. My best male friend

 

Same sex, it was my best friend Mike who is basically a huge redneck but we're like really close and I think it just really showed that you really can't generalize with people at all. He's a great friend.

 

Opposite, she just happened to be my best friend, and I had slowly been finding out what her feelings were on the topic were; they were all positive so I went for it.

 

Opposite sex. My best friend. He's bi, so that made it a little easier, I think.

 

Best male friend. He just thought it was funny I freaking out about it, when he thought it wasnt a big deal at all.

 

Same sex. Mainly because she was a lesbian, too, so she got it. and I suppose was my role model of the time.

 

The only one who know's is my brother I knew he would understand.

 

The first person I told was my best friend (opposite sex).

 

same sex- shes been one of my closest friends since kindergarten and she'd been questioning as well.

on a similar topic, do you find it easier to come out to people who you've known for a long time or not as long?