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Why do I still worry about telling folk I am gay? [message #48563]

Tue, 22 January 2008 08:21

timmy

Has no life at all

Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
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Last night I renewed acquaintance with a cousin I last met in maybe 1968. I've been doing some family tracing. She said "We never seemed to connect when we were kids."

I first met her in 1965/66 when she was 12 and I 13. She was a pleasant girl, but I was not at all comfortable with girls. There was nothing I could relate to. I assume she was comfortable with boys and tried to relate.

So I found myself explaining that I am gay.

This is a repeating pattern. There are people I just will not tell, but I have so far only had either curiosity or folk saying "so what?" when I've come out to them.

I still get worried about speaking, though. It seems to be so big a thing to me, but not to them. Am I alone in feeling that?

Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School

		Why do I still worry about telling folk I am gay? By: timmy on Tue, 22 January 2008 08:21
		Re: Why do I still worry about telling folk I am gay? By: saben on Tue, 22 January 2008 08:35
		Re: Why do I still worry about telling folk I am gay? By: acam on Tue, 22 January 2008 10:36
		Re: Why do I still worry about telling folk I am gay? By: NW on Tue, 22 January 2008 12:53

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