May2013 |
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Rachel | 31 | West Midlands, UK
"I will never forget the first time I ever spoke about being a lesbian.
I was 16 and at the annual hockey club awards." . . . read more |
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Mark | 29 | London, England
"When puberty hit I was sentenced to a seven year stretch at an all-boy public school where it seemed everyone else had cottoned on to the fact that I was gay way before I had."
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Paul | 34 | Nottingham, England
"I would sit for hours and listen to his life story and our similarities. Very quickly I found myself looking at him thinking, 'he looks good'."
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Kelly | 28 | Maidstone, England
"I knew there and then that all along I had been gay. I felt so comfortable in a way I had never felt with a man."
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Jonas | 25 | Originally form the US
(currently Tibetan Plateua, China) "Things have gotten immeasurably better since coming out. While I am on the far outskirts of the gay world, I feel more centered and at peace with myself." . . . read more |
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Peter | 16 | Northern Ireland
"Weigh the pros and cons before you say anything drastic - but never lie to yourself. Lying to yourself is so much worse and far more painful than lying to other people."
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Bo | 30 | Northwest England
"After a holiday fling before I went to uni, I spent three years trying to convince myself I could pull off the 'expected' lifestyle and not have to disappoint my family by telling them who I really was."
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Matt | 21 | Nottingham, England
STORY UPDATE!!! "The support from readers that I received in response to my RUComingOut story has contributed to my new drive to achieve anything that I set out to do."
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Dan | 20 | Manchester England
"At that moment, in that dreary caravan in Wales, I felt a massive weight lift from my shoulders. It was over and it was perfect and it has been perfect ever since."
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Paul | 41 | West Country, England
"By the time I finished ‘A’ levels I knew that I was gay. Until that point I really thought that I could hide it from everyone for the rest of my life. I was so unhappy."
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Simon | 26 | Swindon, England
"A drunken night out lead to me texting two of my closest friends. I cried myself to sleep at the thought of what they were going to say and how they were going to say it. The thought of it made me feel sick; my life had changed forever."
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