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Positive news [message #59837]

Tue, 01 December 2009 10:37

timmy

Has no life at all

Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
Messages: 13796

Yes, I am positively out!

It's taken 18 months in the planning but at last there is an article in my old school's alumni magazine where my profile states that I was a frightened gay kid there, and it links, at last, to the page I wanted them to out in the magazine at http://www.trent.karoo.net/oe

They didn't want that page in the magazine, preferring to dwell only on the lighter side of life, but, by dint of persuasion, the editor has succumbed.

Now the interesting news is that this once frightened gay kid has had a partial offer of freelance work in the new year from that article in the magazine. No, not pole dancing! In my regular line as a marketing consultant!

The thing I was once most afraid of, that my alleged school friends would all know, is now a fact. Those people, whoever they are, now know.

The thing is, only the good, decent ones ever mattered. Being gay and out has lost me one person from my christmas card list, my homophobic and viciously stupid cousin Anthony. There is a net saving there of 3 cards a year. Birthday cards from him and wife, and Christmas card. I gain by £5.

I've no idea if any old school colleagues will get in touch over the article. I hope they do, and I don;t mind what they say. The bad comments, if any, I will try to educate. The good comments I will glow from. Either way I benefit Smile

That is my final fear conquered.

I am gay here, in my old school magazine, on my blog, on my own website, on Facebook, on Twitter and on LinkedIn.

[Updated on: Tue, 01 December 2009 10:39]

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

Re: Positive news [message #59839 is a reply to message #59837]

Tue, 01 December 2009 11:00

Michael-Kent Dobison

Likes it here

Location: South Africa - Gauteng
Registered: January 2007
Messages: 309

Timmy,

That is Great ;-D ;-D ;-D I am so happy for you. I understand how you feel, as there really is no better feeling than living free Smile

Congrats on the conquest of your final fear Smile

We are Gay, and We are Happy and We are Us Smile

Best Wishes for anything that happens Smile

"And so the lion fell in love with the Lamb"
"What a stupid Lamb"
"What a sick, masochistic lion"

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