Since then I’ve come out as gay and all but my mother knows. I’ll tell her in my own time or perhaps, like my friends, she already knows as she’s asked the odd question or two which have been ambiguously answered. All friends know I’m gay, the rumour mill has meant that most people in the college I attend know (despite me not having told them) and I’ve recently found out that several of my teachers also know which was a little un-nerving but not unexpected.
Coming out was one of the hardest experiences of my life. It’s saddening to think of the anguish many experience until they finally realise that being gay is not taboo; perhaps an obvious observation from an outsiders perspective but, when immersed in the situation, this is not so.
Accepting who you are and the implications of this can be hard but it will not change so it could be looked at as a case of “like it or lump it.” Life is so much better if you choose to like it, as hard as it may seem.