I just came out to my first family member. My brother gave me a call tonight and we did our usual BS session. He is a truck driver and lives 3 hours away, so it is very difficult to meet up with him in person. So I decided to decided to tell him over the phone. It was the best response yet. He said "As long as you still vote republican I don't care." :roflmao:
No, I vote Libertarian. Though in Texas a vote for a third party is the pretty much same as a vote for the Republicans.
This reminds me of a complicated story about a beach covered in starfish that will all die if they don't come out and there's this guy who's outing everyone and another guys says, "you can't possibly make a difference to all these starfish" but this one starfish says he's gay and the man says, "It made a difference to that one." ...Or something.
Holy crap dude, that is awesome. I completely forgot about that story. It is kind of fitting if you thing about it. That is so much better than how I actually picked my screen name. It is relevant so I will tell the story here. My screen name actually comes from the Operation Dominic series of atomic bomb tests. Specifically the Starfish Prime test. It is one of five atomic bomb tests conducted by the US in outer space. In fact my avatar is a picture of the explosion. When I started the coming out process it hit me pretty hard. I started drinking heavily, I was depressed and angry. I starting having all of these new feelings and I had no one to talk to. I felt like an atomic bomb had gone off in my life. When I found this site I wanted an ID I had not used any where else. I was so afarid someone would figure out who I was. I started to use use StarfishPrime, but again I was afarid it was too unique and that someone who knows me could put two and two together and figure out who I was. What a long ways I have come in the past few months. Not only am I out, but I am sitting in a coffee shop on my laptop, where the world can see what I am doing right now. If you think about it, this is fitting also. The atomic bomb had the power to big about the end of the world, and for a while we got close. However it also helped to usher in a bunch of technological advances that made our lives better. There are a number of way I could have let my sexuality destroy my life. However instead it is ushering in the next great chapter. Something to think about...
