What age did you come out of the closet?

Question

did your family accpet it i came out at 13 and my whole family had no probelm with same thing for my boyfreind to his whole family has no probelm that he is g*y

Answer 1

Whoa, you are lucky to have such accepting people in your life! I came out to my mom when I was 17. Best and hardest decision I ever made. She accepts me but I feel like we're still on different wave lengths most of the time. Ah well, I'll take what I can get from her. I still have all of my friends and the rest of my family to tell...I'm scared as h**l.

Answer 2

My sister had so many cute clothes in her closet, I didnt want to come out. I remember this blue chiffon summer dress.....oh, if I could only go back.

Answer 3

I came out in my 20's  

Answer 4

I came out at thirteen to my closest friends...then suddenly the whole school knew...that was my mistake actually so it wasn't any infidelity from my friends.

I came out to my mom just recently [at fourteen] in a desperate situation.

She cried a lot...but she said that she accepts my 'decision'.

It still upsets me a little that she called it a decision, but I'm glad that I still have that same relationship with her that I've always had. My boyfriend is bisexual and still closeted to his family, but some of his friends know.

I love him, and will forever love him. <3

Answer 5

18. Everybody's fine with it.  

Answer 6

I was outed at 19, someone from college told them I was dating girls and going to a lez-bar.  I denied it, until someone else came up with pix.

Answer 7

Never because im as straight as a 180 degree angle. =D

Answer 8

I told my brother when I was 15 and he was 13.  We were best friends at the time, but after that, he suddenly hated me, and we have barely spoken since, and that was 15 years ago.

I told my parents at age 18.  My mother and I fought about it for three years, but she accepts me now and is my greatest allie and confidant.  My father, on the other hand, threatened to shoot me when he first found out.  He HATED ME for years afterwards, and only recently has he given me a little bit of acceptance.  

I live with my boyfriend, and I've had him to my parent's house for dinner 3 times, and my father is generally nice to him, and tries to make conversation, which is nice.  Actually, my dad gets along with my boyfriend better than with me!  But thats okay.

The rest of my family has no idea.  My father STILL forbids me from telling the other relatives.  He says that if I do, I'm out of the will.  And not that my parents are rich, but I'll be inheriting about $500,000 when my parents die, and I'm not gonna s***w that up!

As for the rest of the world, everyone knows I'm g*y.  I make it a point when meeting someone new, I tell them I am g*y within our first or second meeting.  I don't want to be friends with someone who is going to shun me down the line when they find out my sexuality.  I want my firends to accept me for who I am from the very beginning.  And thats true at work too.  In Pennsylvania (where I live), a person can be fired just for being g*y.  Still, I'm out at work, and I will ALWAYS come out at any new job I get, I REFUSE to hide, I refuse to give in to heterosexual hysteria.

Answer 9

I haven't yet ^_^ Maybe when I'm 16 ^_^

Answer 10

I think you hit the jackpot.

I'm 15, came out just after my 14th birthday, during summer, and then it was mixed. Most of my friends didn't care. My family doesn't necessarily like it, it's just something nobody talks about.

Answer 11

Well I'm 15 and I stll haven't cme out....I wld of if I was g*y because my family wld of accept it but I'm bi and dey dnt belivie in bi ppl.

Answer 12

i came out at 16 (and am 16 now).  i told my 4 closest friends when i was 12, but then kinda said it was a phase, even though i still thought i was g*y.  within the past year i came out to my parents, my little brother, and my 2 closest friends.  they've all been pretty accepting.  my mom is probs the least cool w/ it, but she's okay.  i mean, it could be alot worse.  i'm planning on starting a g*y-straight alliance at my school next year, so then i'll be fully out.  i'm hoping to approach it with the right attitude so i won't wind up w/ too many h8ers, but in highschool i don't think it's avoidable.

Answer 13

At 15 which is what age I am now! and I came out only to my mom grandparents and two close friends

Answer 14

never officially did ! people make their own assumptions anyway !  

Answer 15

Well i'm 15 and still not out

but my family wouldn't be as accepting as yours

Answer 16

18, I got caught making out with a guy. And what Thom wrote was so true and beautifully put.

Answer 17

I came out when I was 22, and though it might seem like that would be an easy age to do so it wasn't. I had to come out because I was beat within an inch of my life because of my orientation. My family was accepting but that is probably only because they were happy I am still alive. Coming out is different for every person and only time can help family members and friends truly accept you. At first it is a shock and they don't know what to do or say, with time the first reaction of fear for you and your future will fade away to realizing they love you for who you are not who you pretend to be living in fear that your true feeling will be somehow discovered.

Answer 18

Im 19 and my parents don't know i bi....i wish they did but i can't tell them. i don't know what they would say....