No, I don't because it was totally accepted by my parents. There are some times I sort of wish they didn't know about it (simply because it's such a intimate detail; but they would have to know eventually), but it doesn't create any kind of a problem in my life.
I regret it sometimes. Mostly because, since I'm young and I am bisexual, many people don't take me seriously because a lot of people nowadays are saying they are bi as a trend. And I agree about wishing my parents didn't know, not because they don't accept it, but because it's such an intimate detail.
Not at all, I have to be out to everyone to feel comfortable, I get really uncomfortable when I have to pretend to be straight doesn't feel right
I regret nothing about my lifestyle and that my friends has brought me the happiness I was longing for.
No Regrets Whatsoever.... I Never Really "Came Out" As Such...(big announcement to the world), But I Have Always Just Been Myself.. Have Never "Pushed" My Sexuality In Anybodys Face, Even On The Intertubes. If The Subject Comes Up, Then I Will Be Totally Honest With People. In Closing........I Have Always Found That Just Being Your Natural Confident Self, Worked Heaps Better In The Longrun, Than Bashing Down The Closet Door With A Sledgehammer, As Some Gays Seem Intent On Doing.......(to each his own i guess)... Cheers Glen.
Out and the degree of being out are all relative to geographical location, what % of straight people can read you without you telling them, their comfort level/experience around gay guys
Why would the greater, wider world care about my sexual orientation? Those who need to know, certainly do. The others are very happy to mind their own business as I am, when it comes to their sexual orientations, practices, etc. . KD
When I came out everyone was very supportive & not at all judgmental. The only people who were unfortunately not as understanding were my parents. They still to this day try to pretend that I never told them. While it makes me upset that they can't understand, I definitely don't regret coming out. It was a huge weight off my shoulders when I first came out & now I'm just glad everyone sees the real me.
What's a closet?? I've been out so long everyone of my family, friends and co-workers (before I retired from the US Postal Service) knew I was gay. Have been with same partner for 35 years and now married to him for 1 year (I live in CA and we got married the 1st day it was legal). People you care about knowing your gay is like them knowing your a vegan!!
I've only come out as bi to my wife. There are times when I regret it, but it's also nice sometimes to watch MMF porn with her and to talk about what turns us both on
I've only come out as bisexual to my wife (with mixed results. Sometimes she's really into it and thinks it's hot, and other times, she thinks I'm "more gay" than not). A gay friend of hers also figured it out without either one of us outright telling him (apparently I set off his "gaydar" LOL) The only other person I'd willingly come "out" to as bisexual is my wife's boyfriend.
I'm gradually coming out as gay to more and more people, most recently to two female friends in my spiritual group last Saturday. They were, as totally expected--as has everyone that I've come out to so far--very accepting, loving and supportive. The more you come out to others, the easier it becomes for sure. But for me anyway, it's a process. As for who can know the truth about me, I'm at the point where I actually can't think of anyone that I would care if they knew, except my parents and brother. Unless I actually fall in love and become boyfriends with a guy (so far it's just been sex with hundreds of guys (mostly oral, some anal)), I have no intention of ever coming out to my parents, who are quite elderly and will die within a few years at most. But of course they've had to contend with my total failure with women, having never gotten married or given them grandchildren, though they've seen or heard of me dating women, including two long-term relationships for three years each. I'm very close to my brother, and I've heard some homophobic remarks from him in the past, so I don't know about coming out to him without my having a boyfriend. That one I'm still scared about. But with all my other homophobic relatives I'm not afraid to perhaps coming out to them someday, but of course I couldn't do that before my parents die, unless, again, I have a boyfriend I want to live openly with. You know, part of me has always said that I don't want to come out to others because it's just been a sexual thing with me, and it's none of their business. But as I experience being out to a few people, the more it becomes a part of being yourself without having to hide that part of yourself. Even though no one sees the homosexual part of my life right now, there's something about the freedom you feel with honesty. In the last couple of years I've been socializing with lots of gay men, doing lots of nonsexual things with them, so I'm owning my homosexuality more and more, and feel comfortable in my gay skin. In fact, part of me just wants to scream it from the rooftops: I not only accept my homosexuality, but I love it, and I'm very proud of it, and I don't wish that I was straight in the least. It just feels so right, and who I am. God, the freedom you feel with that understanding! I love everything about men, and having sex with them is so much fun and fulfilling, especially because I'm a man myself. Men being together is just so beautiful. So I'm definitely a huge proponent of gay and bisexual people coming out, though I am very slow in doing so myself. OK, I'm a hypocrite.
