I posted this in the LGBT in Later Life and it probably should be here instead.... Hello All....I did it...I really did....I found a very special friend that I knew I could trust and today for the first time in over 50 years...well...the first time ever...I came out to someone in the flesh, face to face! I choked and stumbled, but I finally managed to say "I am Gay". He looked at me with a sort of dazed expression and then said: "It's OK with me your still the same person" And then I started crying. I came out to a former student who lives in London about a month ago by email, but this was different. The former student is Gay and I knew he was. My friend today is straight. He accepted me with no hesitation and gave me his most solemn promise to take my secret to the grave...and I know that he will. You'd have to read my first post (Dec. 25th) to understand that I can not come out in public....I never thought I would come out at all...yet now there are two people who know the real me! We talked for about an hour and before he left he gave me a hug and not just a squeeze, it was a real hug and hold on for a moment with his head on my should saying: "it's OK" I'm still crying off and on. Today will be marked on my calendar!.....David
