My experience coming out to my friends and family just before the holidays was unique. Rather than talking to everyone personally, I posted on Facebook to spread the word loud and clear to all those online.<\/p>\n
Not everyone I am close to is on Facebook, but most are, and I knew a lot of people would see my post. I told my mom in person first and then shared a status with an attached image onto my newsfeed that said \u201cI just wanted to let you all know I\u2019m a lesbian.\u201d<\/p>\n
The picture underneath said \u201cI like my men like I like my coffee, nowhere near my vagina.\u201d This status got a lot of likes as well as several sweet comments.<\/p>\n
The feeling I had after sharing that status was indescribable. It was exhilarating: I felt lighter. My family and friends were all very proud of me and happy that I can now be my complete self without hiding it.<\/p>\n
Most of my close friends weren\u2019t surprised and admired that I finally got the courage to be out and proud.<\/p>\n
I knew I\u2019ve liked girls since I was about 10 years old and I lied to myself and my boyfriends about my sexuality for years, so I was done with keeping it in.<\/p>\n
I didn\u2019t find it necessary to go about telling everyone separately that I am attracted to women. It really wasn\u2019t a big deal to me; I was just happy to get it off my chest. My straight friends didn\u2019t sit me down and tell me they were straight. I\u2019m gay: so what?<\/p>\n
Several friends and some family members asked me questions that I was happy to answer and a lot of people addressed me later to tell they were happy for me.<\/p>\n
A couple were confused\u2014maybe more than a couple\u2014but for the most part people were just happy. They were happy that I could be myself, and that\u2019s all that matters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
My experience coming out to my friends and family just before the holidays was unique. Rather than talking to everyone personally, I posted on Facebook to spread the word loud and clear to all those online. Not everyone I am close to is on Facebook, but most are, and I knew a lot of people […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-columns","category-january-22-2014"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8498,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8497\/revisions\/8498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}