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General discussion about coming out to your friends and family when you are still a teenager.

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I feel special to be the first person posting on this thread!
I'm a gay teen and I'm proud to say it. Because of Chely's song "Heavenly Days" I found the strength to "dare to be different, dare to be true." I saw that life gives you the choice to "bury the treasure, like we've always done, or crawl from the wreckage, and walk in the sun" and through Chely's courage I found courage of my own.

Coming out is not easy by any means. It's a process. A process I'm still going through. But each time I tell someone and get a good reaction, it gets easier.

If I could give anyone advice, it would be to not let anything set you back. Do NOT let a bad experience set you back. Keep moving forward and make a change. You can make a difference just by being YOU! Look at what Chely did!

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Wow. You gave me a new view on that song!! and i love it! Thanks:)

I havent fully came out yet. but the friends and family i have came out to are amazing and i love them lots! I have found out that three of my friends (including the sweet guy who took me to Homecoming this year) are completely against gay marriage and think we are against God. They dont know i know or that im a lesbian.

Chely has really helped me on this voyage, starting this summer. i met her in August and just being in that environment where i could be myself was the most amazing feeling. Its like i took my first breath. Now im about to graduate in a couple months and can't wait for college so i can just be myself. My big thing to accomplish right now is to come out to my dad and grandparents. i think about it everyday but can't come up with anything! This is very hard...

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Kaylinshea5 wrote:

Wow. You gave me a new view on that song!! and i love it! Thanks:)

I havent fully came out yet. but the friends and family i have came out to are amazing and i love them lots! I have found out that three of my friends (including the sweet guy who took me to Homecoming this year) are completely against gay marriage and think we are against God. They dont know i know or that im a lesbian.

Chely has really helped me on this voyage, starting this summer. i met her in August and just being in that environment where i could be myself was the most amazing feeling. Its like i took my first breath. Now im about to graduate in a couple months and can't wait for college so i can just be myself. My big thing to accomplish right now is to come out to my dad and grandparents. i think about it everyday but can't come up with anything! This is very hard...

At the beginning of Summer I knew that Heavenly Days would be my "anthem" for the summer just to be optimistic, but when I was going to my aunt's house to meet her for the first time (we had only met on facebook previously, and I saw that she was a Christian Republican, so I assumed that mean homophobe as well) and I listened to that song, those lyrics really hit me. I thought, "if Chely can do it, so can I," and I did. That song will always be very special for me.

Did you meet her at the West Hollywood Borders thing?! I wanted to go to that SO BAD! I met her in September when she came to Borders in downtown San Diego. Yeah, the environment was beautiful. It's like the real-life version of what this website is (in my eyes, at least). Very supportive and awe-filled.
I'm going through a similar thing, as far as grandparents go. If you wanna talk about it feel free to email me it's always nice to vent. (I hope this doesn't break a forum rule) [email protected]

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I started the process of coming out when I was 13 and in the 8th grade.  I had a super huge crush on my english teacher, and after realizing it was a crush it became so emotional that I couldn't keep it to myself.  So I told a few of my friends, but I spent a lot of time on a theater-related forum posting about it.  I would have had so much more trouble if I hadn't had that safe place (well, until my mom found it in the internet history) to talk about it.  I wasn't ready to face it yet, and it was great to have that outlet.
I was pretty much totally out by the time I was finishing up my freshman year of high school.  I was madly in love with a senior girl who I was good friends with, and that, being even more emotionally draining than my english teacher crush, had be bursting at the seams, so of course everyone except the girl and the blabbermouths who would have told her knew.  Then I finally told her that summer and got a totally accepting response, though she didn't like me back in the same way.  I have a HUGE, detailed essay about it that I could post here, lol, but that would require me digging it up and finding where I posted it last.
Anyway, I was about 15 when I completed my coming out process, and I'm currently 16 and happy as a clam   Now I'm just working on the whole merging sexuality and Christianity thing, so we'll see how that goes. 

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cellenexo wrote:
Kaylinshea5 wrote:

Wow. You gave me a new view on that song!! and i love it! Thanks:)

I havent fully came out yet. but the friends and family i have came out to are amazing and i love them lots! I have found out that three of my friends (including the sweet guy who took me to Homecoming this year) are completely against gay marriage and think we are against God. They dont know i know or that im a lesbian.

Chely has really helped me on this voyage, starting this summer. i met her in August and just being in that environment where i could be myself was the most amazing feeling. Its like i took my first breath. Now im about to graduate in a couple months and can't wait for college so i can just be myself. My big thing to accomplish right now is to come out to my dad and grandparents. i think about it everyday but can't come up with anything! This is very hard...

At the beginning of Summer I knew that Heavenly Days would be my "anthem" for the summer just to be optimistic, but when I was going to my aunt's house to meet her for the first time (we had only met on facebook previously, and I saw that she was a Christian Republican, so I assumed that mean homophobe as well) and I listened to that song, those lyrics really hit me. I thought, "if Chely can do it, so can I," and I did. That song will always be very special for me.

Did you meet her at the West Hollywood Borders thing?! I wanted to go to that SO BAD! I met her in September when she came to Borders in downtown San Diego. Yeah, the environment was beautiful. It's like the real-life version of what this website is (in my eyes, at least). Very supportive and awe-filled.
I'm going through a similar thing, as far as grandparents go. If you wanna talk about it feel free to email me it's always nice to vent. (I hope this doesn't break a forum rule) [email protected]


Sorry so late! I havent had any connections to LikeMe... YES i saw her at the West Hollywood Borders!!! it was amazing! i really wanted to go to San Diego but its too far away! hey thanks for the e-mail! mine is [email protected] it would be great to get a message from you!

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