coming out

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One Foot in the Closet: Playing the coming out game again... and again

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One of the things I simultaneously hate the most and love the best about the gay community (or the homosexual community or the LGBTQ community or whatever the hell is PC these days) is their eternal obsession with getting people to be proud of who they are. This may seem like an awesome thing at first, because who doesn't want their friends to be able to be happy and proud of who they are? I've seen too many people who were run down and depressed because they couldn't reconcile who they knew they were with who society told them it was okay to be.

But on the other hand, there are people like me, who preach the doctrine but then feel like a hypocrite when it's time to apply it to my own personal life. I don't like the gay community's eternal obsession with coming out because I'm still not out to the most important people in my life - my family.  Read More »

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uh oh not another homosexual blog....but this one's different promise

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There seems to be a slew of homosexual debate based blogs posted on progressiveu recently, and forgive me for jumping on the band wagon but this just hits too close to home. I'm sure that there are people out there who would say this much more eloquently than I and be much more articulate than I tend to be when I'm talking about myself.  Read More »

Living in the closet: Not All That It's Cracked Up To Be

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Being a gay teenager is harder then being a straight one. Take the pressure you feel as a normal teenager, and multiply by 50: that's how gay teens feel. With all the normal stress of school and social lives, the added confusion of questioning your sexuality adds more straw to the camel's back.  Read More »

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