Coming Out - Part One

...so every gay man (and woman) who no longer lives in the closet has a coming out story. I, being as multi-layered as I am, have several. I'm breaking it all up into several installments so that when I have absolutely no blogspiration I can dig up a coming out story! I'm a forward planner like that.

The Best Friends Coming Out Story

It was approaching New Years 2001 and at that time I was living in Melbourne, Rhandy was in Sydney and Steve was in London. We decided to meet up somewhere in the middle for New Years and New York was decided upon. Even though it was a 24 hour flight for me and Rhands and an 8 hour flight for Steve. I digress.

By the way, NYE 2001 happened to be when the biggest snow storm in 100 years decides to hit New York. I got into New York early and checked into the our hotel but Rhands was stuck in LA until Dec 29 and Steve was stuck in London until Dec 30. Again, I digress.

Our plan before new years was for each of us to reveal a secret that we'd been keeping from the other two on New Years. After a memorable NYE freezing our nuts off in Times Square with a million other stupid people (Times Square is fun - but something I don't plan to do ever again unless I'm in a hotel suite. With a bathroom. And heating), we retreated back to our hotel and the three of us sat in the (closed) lobby bar.

Steve and Rhands voiced their secrets - and no I ain't gonna say what they were - you'll have to ask them. :) When it came to saying mine I started crying (How gay am I!) and I was like "Oh you guys know what I'm gonna say so can we just acknowledge it and get over it?". This was unacceptable to Steve who then said "Say it. It'll feel better if you say it out loud". In my head I'm thinking "How the fuck would you know - have you ever come out???". Anyway, I told them I was gay. To their complete unsurprise. It was kinda funny though that they'd defend my heterosexuality to whomever asked. That's friendship for ya.

I gotta say that was the most difficult coming out for me, personally. It only got easier from there. No less dramatic, but easier.

Song of the Day: "Bossy" - Kelis