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- From: latarra@camelot.bradley.edu (Lisa Ehren)
- Subject: Re: Tips for coming out to friends?
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- Date: 26 Jan 93 18:01:28 GMT
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- In <1993Jan25.224344.5405@Princeton.EDU> dem@cs.princeton.edu (Doron Meyer) writes:
- >I just need
- >to tell a few close friends. I'm sick of hiding it from them.
-
- Something that worked for me was having some of my better friends know and
- knowing myself that I had a support group that would care about me despite
- my being bisexual. I wish you luck in finding support of your own.
-
- <deleted part about being ready when gay jokes or homophobic remarks are
- made in presence>
-
- >What am I going to do if they ask if I'm
- >gay? Before, when I was lying to myself, I could always retreat
- >to the famous, "Oh, but *I'm* not gay," read as, "Leave
- >the fucking faggots alone, but thank God I'm not one of them."
- >Now I don't know what I'd do. I'm certainly not going to out
- >myself to the whole school.. so what do I do? Lie? That's
- >not me, and I can't do it convincingly.
-
- Well, you could always tell them that a very good friend of yours is gay,
- and that out of sympathy for him you'd rather not listen to that kind of
- thing...that's mostly the truth, 'cause I would hope that you are a friend
- to yourself.
-
- Lisa, wondering why she's offering advice when this is so new to her.
- --
- "Bondage can be fun when you use a lot of rope. Its better, though,
- when you use too much!" --attrib. Mae West.
-
- To bi or not to bi...that was a question. latarra@camelot.bradley.edu
-