Wasted day

[desperance]

Apparently - according to esmeraldus_neo - it's National Coming Out Day over there. I don't think we have it over here. Just as well. I don't think I've got anything left to come out of, y'know...?

(Come to think of it, I don't believe I ever did come out. I was just, y'know, there...)

Comments

[esmeraldus-neo.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was never in. I mean, I wear my leather trousers and to class.

[athenais.livejournal.com]

I am happy to hear it was not troublesome for you. Would that it could be that way for more people. I hate to see anyone living in fear.

[fjm.livejournal.com]

A Student Union meeting. First week of my first year. In the middle of a packed debate. So much for "keeping a low profile".

[julesjones]

I found out about it this morning when one of my fellow erotic romance writers sent me a very sweet and romantic picture of nekkid men to mark the day.

I'm that rarity, a genuine Kinsey 0. But an awful lot of my friends aren't...

[esmeraldus-neo.livejournal.com]

Tri-county newspaper article. Thought nothing of it until J. started hearing about it at work.

[deborahjross.livejournal.com]

Someday, no one will think anything of it, and all flavors of love will be celebrated. But I sadly suspect that this time will come later to the US than to other, more enlightened, places.

My small contribution to acceptance: When my children were growing to that age, I encouraged them to date both boys and girls, to see which they preferred. But then, we live in California, so this wasn't so shocking.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

When my children were growing to that age, I encouraged them to date both boys and girls, to see which they preferred.

I like that. How did it go down with their peer group? Or was everybody doing it?

[samarcand.livejournal.com]

Chaz. I hate tell you this... I like girls...

Although I like their clothes as well.

And it's actually mostly one specific girl.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Noooo...!

(She is actually quite specific, though, isn't she...?)

[deborahjross.livejournal.com]

Both of them were quite public and confident about their choices. My younger daughter went around wearing a T-shirt that said, "Let's get one thing straight, I'm not," in high school, was active in the Gay-Straight Alliance (even lectured the faculty on tolerance). Both girls have had short-term girlfriends, long-term boyfriends, and are now happily with other women. I'm delighted with my daughters-in-love.

No, as to whether everyone was doing it. They both had straight friends, who -- as far as mom could tell -- were not particularly bothered by it. Both got hassled from time to time, but not as much as they did for refusing to shave their legs. Teens are so conformist. But I think that's interesting that fuzzy legs created more of an uproar than choice of dates.

(Prejudiced mother adds that both girls are drop-dead gorgeous.)