{"id":10219,"date":"2014-04-19T11:53:48","date_gmt":"2014-04-19T15:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/basicallybeyondbasic.com\/?p=10219"},"modified":"2021-05-29T20:40:44","modified_gmt":"2021-05-30T00:40:44","slug":"my-parents-want-me-to-come-out-to-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therockysafari.com\/2014\/04\/19\/my-parents-want-me-to-come-out-to-them\/","title":{"rendered":"My Parents Want Me to Come Out to Them"},"content":{"rendered":"
Coming out has been an interesting process for me, to say the least. It took a while before I ever told anyone but once one person knew, it became much easier to start telling the rest.<\/p>\n
I’ve been very fortunate to have a positive coming out experience – for the most part. Growing up, no one ever asked me if I was gay which was good in some ways but bad in others. On one hand, I never got bullied – so that was nice! But I was also never put in\u00a0a position to\u00a0question my sexuality. “Being gay” never crossed my mind!<\/p>\n
It wasn’t until high school that I started\u00a0figuring\u00a0things out. At that point, I was comfortable enough to tell some of my closest friends which was really awesome. I was pretty\u00a0selective in who I told because I needed to know that the information wouldn’t make its way back to my family before I was ready for them to know.<\/p>\n