Happy National Coming Out Day! How old were you when you came out?

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28!

Just came out a few weeks ago

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Congrats EY2! I was 28 when I came out as well.

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22 to myself. 23 to a friend for the first time. 29 to Parents and sister.
Indian dude here.

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22 to friends and haven’t told my parents yet...Asian female with pretty conservative family background...

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17 to myself and peers, TBD to my family

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24! I was 22 before I knew I was gay 🤷🏻‍♀️ 27 now, am selectively out at work

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Process started at 37 with closest family members. Still ongoing a decade later with people I don’t know as well.

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17 to myself, 18 to friends, 19 to family, always out at work. Just a boy from a rural Midwestern town here 💁🏻‍♂️

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15

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Myself maybe 19. To close friends 24 to family 39

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18 and a first year at UVA!

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21. Out to everyone at once!

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17 but never really needed to come out specifically to folks, except the one off truly oblivious folks. People assumed I was a queen and I let them... Saved me the trouble of coming out.

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41 😂 My teenage daughter told me she is bi (I guessed) and I told her I am too. I never felt the need to be explicit about it before, but I’m glad I was direct with her.

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22! Celebrating the first anniversary of my first queer date in a couple of weeks!

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21 to everyone

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I was never in the closet 🤷‍♂️

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Same

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17 to family and close friends, didn’t really start living ‘out’ till I was 26

I never really needed to “come out”. I once tried to have a really awkward conversation with a friend and it was super apparent they already knew. Now I just am myself and people figure it out pretty quickly.

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