I attempted to come out to a close friend today, and here's how it went: At mall Me: Hey (Person) Person: 'Ello Me: What's your opinion on this? *Holds up rainbow pride bracelet* Person: What about it? Me: I kind of want it Person: Why? Me: I think I'd be more comfortable if I had it Person: Why...? Me: ... (approaching tears) Person: ...? Me: Nothing! I'm sorry Person: No no, I just don't understand Me: I-it's not important. I'm sorry Person: ...theeen why bring it up? I'm just curious Me: I-I-I dunno! I'm sorry Person: Don't be Me: *Starts crying* Person: It was just me being curious Me: It's fine *Stop crying* You didn't do anything wrong Person: Kay This was a horrible experience for me, and I didn't even get my point across...
(*hug*)It's fine calm down, I mean it happens. At least you tried to come out,its always very nerveracking. I think if you really want to come out to this person this experience will make it a lot easier. First of all the person now knows you want to say something and you can easily bring up what happened in a conversation like "you remember what happened the other day with the bracelet" and then tell him/her. It happens to the best of them good luck (*hug*)
Why the tears? From the text at least they honestly didn't understand what the bracelet meant. If he's okay with your randomly bursting into tears, he'll probably be just fine if you tell him you're gay. Relax.
I'm glad things turned out well for you, I was in a similar situation where I was going to tell him but I chocked and decided not to tell him and that's when I came here for some guidance and I realized that I could really trust him and so I told him when we hung out two days later and he took pretty well. When you feel a trust in a person no matter what try and trust that instinct because that person my end up surprising you.
