Demographics
First Name: Anonymous
Age: 20
Gender/Pronouns: Male
Sexuality: Queer
Region/Area: Cincinnati, OH
Race/Ethnicity: White
Story
My coming out experience was a really weird, heterogeneous fluctuation from the point where I first told my sister I didn’t think I was straight, to slowly telling friends over the course of a couple years while I was in high school. Around the end of my senior year, I made a painting about queer identity to put in a school art show, but it was so subtle that no one really read that much into it. So I made a crappy Facebook post being like “I’m gay XD” and then kept on vibing. My mom was not friends with me on Facebook, but she found out when she tried to send me a friend request my freshman year of college, and I think that was the last major person I came out to! Obviously we are always coming out to new people in our lives all the time, but I think that was the major climax in my coming out story.