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Before you came out, did you ever drop hints about your sexuality?

Discussion in 'Chit Chat' started by MintberryCrunch, Oct 28, 2014.

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  1. Jethro702

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    Yeah, even though i'm not out to many I do... all 3 i'm out to knew I wasn't straight when they first met me. As for me consciously giving little hints yeah lol... I go as far as liking pics that clearly say "blah, blah, I'm Gay" on them on FB cause I know my parents have me favorited so they see everything I like.
     
    #21 Jethro702, Oct 29, 2014
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    I'm not out to most people, but I do kinda drop hints. I don't think anyone has really picked up on anything though.....
     
    #22 MickH, Oct 29, 2014
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    Dropping hints was pretty much the main reason that led to my first coming out. At some point I just stopped biting my tongue and started agreeing with my female friends when they said a guy was hot and stuff.
     
    #23 Average Joe, Oct 30, 2014
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    I drop hints but people never seem to notice. Sadly.
     
    #24 Pie, Oct 30, 2014
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    Rarely. When I was a teen, I was into the show Survivor.. this one season had a girl named Dolly who I was head over heels for and one day when my sister and I where looking at the photos of the cast, I pointed Dolly out and said she was hot. My sister questioned it, I said that I meant her look with the pigtails was pretty cool and it was dropped.
     
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    I always walked a tightrope of never being homophobic myself, being friendly to people who were more obviously LGBT, but I would always be very cautious at not being too supportive when things would draw attention to me (e.g. I said I supported civil unions to a teacher once). That said, I've always been a social liberal, much to the chagrin of my parents.

    Also, I never dated girls or showed interest in them; but I tried to play it off as me being a nerd and relatively religious. I guess I really value honesty, so I preferred to stay silent than actively say I'm straight. It was really only after leaving for graduate school and finally living away from my parents that I began to come out of my shell. I think one of my first signs was actually liking George Takei's facebook page. Now, I knew him first for being in Star Trek, but it was a nice way to show I'm comfortable following an openly gay man. Also, more recently I've been friending a handful of friends from high school and middle school that I knew were LGBT. It's kind of nice to see their support.
     
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    Earlier on I was terrified and also didn't quite understand or explore myself fully enough to be comfortable enough to do so. Once a guy I knew teased me once about liking this girl in my class (who I did, actually) and my heart nearly jumped out of my chest in terror. During that time I was too confused and still tried to steer myself in the direction of guys, so, no hints were dropped.

    Later on after a lot of questioning and self discovery I was comfortable enough to drop loads and loads of hints. It depends around who, but I say stuff like 'she's really hot' or I just talk about movies/shows/etc with lesbians in it around people I'm more comfortable with. I'm in this LGBT group too, and even though it's sort of a group where someone of any sexuality can join if they care about the issue, I'm fairly certain it's obvious that I'm not straight :lol: I'm not directly out yet to anyone but I think by this point a lot of people (not family though) know or can probably guess.
     
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