How Important is coming out?

I feel sorry for people who are never able to come out to their friends or family.

It's like winning $10,000,000 on the lotto and not telling anybody. Sure it's none of their business where you got the money to buy that big house, I mean you can lie about it or hide it, but what's the point? You struck the jack pot and you're gay.

Learn to be proud of it, or you'll start making excuses.

 

Patch, you are unbelievably awesome~

 

Of course I want my close friends and family to know but I never make a big deal out of telling them, they know when they need to know, or ask, or point out some 'really hot bloke' and say "would'nt you like to 'ave 'im?"

 

I just care that my friends know so I know they like me for me. If they hated me for it I'de not associate with them anymore. I am not and never will be proud of me for many reasons, but I accept me....It is far from the lottery, being gay can fuck with job opportunities and stuff like that, then hate crimes in some places, like down in highly christionized areas like Jamaca, Florida, or the middle east which is not christionized, but still horrible to homosexuals.