I wanna come out to my parents. Any thoughts on my idea on how to do it?

Hey everyone :smilewave

I wanna come out to my parents and I have two ideas on how to proceed and want your thoughts and opinions about them. Or any other ideas maybe...?

First one: seems the easiest
I'll be in SF, California during summer and one of the weeks, I'm going to a summer camp while my parents just visit stuff. I was thinking I could write a letter, leave it in my parents room right before we leave to go to the summer camp location (Stanford) and so they find it when they come back and I'm away for a week.

But I'm afraid I might regret later on not having the guts to come out verbally. In my two coming outs to friends, I did it through Facebook each time and honestly I feel kinda like I'm not brave enough, especially when I hear about those other, sometimes younger kids out there being out and proud and having came out face to face. I even recently found out that there is (at last!) an openly gay guy at my school. He's in the grade below (I'm in 10th grade) and, from what I've heard, has been teased a bit because of it but not too much. But he had the guts to tell his mom one night before going to bed and honestly I am jealous of his braveness (is that even a word?)...

So that's where option number two came into mind. Nothing fancy: it would just be telling my mom something along the line of "Mom, I don't like girls" or "Mom, I'm gay" (but in french of course ) But I don't know if I have the guts to do that...

So any opinions, thoughts, ideas,... ?

 

Thank you for your answer
For your questions:
I don't think they'll take it too badly as they are friends with a married gay couple but my mom had a not caring cause there are more important things (even though she stated she wasn't against it) when there were the big gay marriage protests in France (Manif pour tous,...)
Recently she also said something that could easily be understood as homosexuality is not that natural because it is not present is every species or in a tiny amount. Which of course isn't true which I told her.
So I got mixed signals. Until recently I thought she was supportive but had no clear evidences but now with these mixed signals...
For my dad I don't know what he thinks but my parents generally have similar opinions

Also I wanna say that I don't think that a letter is a coward way but I don't know if maybe I might regret not being as brave as some other people around me... It might be hard to understand I don't know, do you get what I mean?

 

Thank you to both of you for taking the time to read my post and answer

To Linco: I meant on Facebook through private messages/chat. So if it gets out that means one of my friends didn't keep quiet.....