Came out at a goodbye party... Couldn't have gone better! :D

The other night, me and two of my friends were had a little goodbye get-together since we're all three leaving this week for college. One of my friends is a girl and the other is a (straight) boy.

I came out to her about two months ago, she was so supportive, I love her. : ) But I haven't ever mentioned it to my other friend even though he and I been like, best friends since kindergarten. I dunno, it just never really came up since I've started coming out to people and I didn't really know how he'd take it. He doesn't have a ton of other really close friends so I thought he could possibly be like, "Oh, god, my best friend's a fag? Shit." and ditch me or something. Since we're both going to separate colleges he could easily stop talking to me as soon as we left the party.

Anyways, while we're at this goodbye get-together, we start debating about one mutual friends' possible sexuality. I say, "Oh, he's totally gay. Never had a girlfriend, even though he's a total stud and basically owned our high school. Plus, he loves his body and always looks really sharply dressed." (I'm not trying to stereotype here. Not all gays are like this, I know. But I had to say something other than, "My gaydar blows up when he and I talk.")

And my girl friend comments, "But you don't love your body." (I'm basically a twig. I run, but my upper body's a joke. Hooray for looking anorexic. Here's to hoping I gain the freshman 15. : P )

It took a couple seconds, but finally my guy friend smiles and says, "Oh yeah. I still haven't actually been told about that." (Referring, of course to the fact that I myself am gay.)

So the cat was out of the bag. I was like, oh yeah. About that. He was so cool about it, though. He said that someone had already mentioned it to him like a month ago because they assumed he already knew. He told me, "It's not a big deal, I don't care or anything," and the amazing part is, he's PROVEN that he doesn't care because in the time between when someone outed me to him and the time that we actually talked about it, we've hung out MULTIPLE times. Like, literally NOTHING changed, he still texted me asking if I was free to hang out.

I just feel so proud of him and our friendship. I didn't think he'd be so mature and accepting, but he's shown what an amazing friend he is. I sure was lucky to meet and befriend him 13 years ago. : )

 

That's awesome! (!)(!) Friends are awesome. I love the "Oh yeah. I still haven't actually been told about that." :eusa_clap

 

Glad it went well. My coming out was similar... I hated telling people because by the time I did they had already heard. I always felt like they were just patronizing me

 

Thanks so much, you guys!

Even though we're both at college now, about an hour and a half apart, me and my straight friend still facebook and text and it's not weird at all.