How Long Did You Stay In The Closet?

48 years? You must have been so far in the closet that you were having adventures in Narnia.

 

14 years total... 6 months since I accepted I was gay

 

I still am closeted although I leave hints of my feminine and gay side here and there.

 

2.5 years and counting

 

32 Years. I don't regret it, too much.

 

I knew from the time I was 12 or 13 that I was gay but didn't really accept it until I was 16. Cam out to everyone including my family when I was 18.

 

Forever and it's all a part of my grand plan.

 

I realized I liked a girl, then I panicked and told my friend about an hour later ._.
Now, a few months later, my closest friends know but not my family.

 

I tentatively questioned a bit for about 2 years, than I stretched telling my mom and a friend over a couple of weeks, and now I'm out, but not really. If it comes up with someone I trust and know their opinion I'll them, but if it doesn't come up in the conversation I don't bring it up or it does and I don't trust them or know their opinion, I'll probably say Bi.

 

15 years...until I found someone I felt comfortable with telling

 

From the time I first realized I had same sex attraction to my coming out was 35 years.

 

I actually came out to a friend over text as I was panicking because I had realized I was gay so like right away someone knew. But I didn't tell anyone other friends for several months. My sister took almost a full year.

 

I had suspicions I was gay in college back in the early 1970s, but was completely afraid to act on those impulses. I lusted after one of my girlfriend's gay friends when I was in grad school. I fooled around with guys, some pretty regularly, in 1979-1981, and then met and married my wife. I've had occasional gay encounters over the years and sort of let a few gay friends know of my inclinations but never came right out and said "I'm gay" until last year when I got over my fear and started photographing male nudes. Then about a week ago I came out to my wife in a very direct way. So you could say I've been deep in the closet for 44 years, and to most people I still am.

 

11 years. I regret maybe 4 of them but what's done is done.

 

I was in the closet for at least 3 months before coming out to my friends. From my parents and family (except my cousin), it's been more than a year. Like a year and a half. ;-;

 

From accepting that I was gay, it didn't take me that long to come out. Almost straight away to my close friends and my family between 3 to 4 months

 

7 years with almost 1 year of acceptance.

 

came out at 12 to my friends and people i loved
to my family at 19
who promptly ignored it
to quote the simpsons
"lets never speak of this again"

 

10 years...
although the goalpost is shifting because I only told them some of it

 

7 years, came out when I was 13..so glad I did.