Gus Kenworthy Shares His Coming Out Story with Teen Vogue 

Rameex Khan me too lol

+Art Stricklen You're right. I never really thought of that. It couldve been worse. Thank you.

+Elijah Torres That can be true. I meant that society in general is much more open to it. Thirty years ago, the AIDS epidemic was making it very hard for us to be out of the closet. We could get fired from our jobs, lose our apartments, and get beat up in the streets. Much progress has been made.

+Art Stricklen I'm 55. I was there. Now is a much better time to be young and gay.

I came out at 10 but I fucked up

A sincere thanks for paving the way Art!

Omg, three ?? 👁️👄👁️

well, you are right unfortunately

Think of it as a 'face' that represents you and your community so that others will have a more positive outlook as opposed to the rampant negativity of homosexuality that have been generated over the years.

Your point?

Just know that although your religion is important to you, you should always recognize finding yourself and who you are. I'm not that religious, but I know that no matter what the Bible says, God will love you. So many people are going to tell you differently but when you have a whole community lifting you up, it just will validate you so much more. I haven't come out formally, some of my friends know but accepting and embracing who you are is so important. If your family and friends really love you, they will accept you for being gay/bi. As a society we've come so far in accepting those who come out and even if you were taught that "being gay is a sin", so many other things are sins, too, but we have grown out of them in society. It is ok to "grow out" of the standard that being gay is a sin. You cannot change who you are. And it's ok to be who you are. Sorry if that was confusing :/

avery wagner thank you for your answer but I think I'll just need to think this out on my own. My religion and love for God is more important to me than anything else so I don't want to stray away from that but I also don't want to live a life full of denial. Thank you

Millicent Brown of course :) good luck 💕

Yep if he was ugly or feminine it wouldn’t have been so easy.

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Gary Gans yikes was his comment that big of a deal

The norm in society is that you're straight unless you tell people you're not. It's his choice and that in no way makes him weak. That makes him strong, because he is a figure of representation for so many people which is what a lot of young people need.

+skatersaxman Listen up, you fucking moron. People in this society are obsessed with who is gay. It's not like there aren't any punitive repercussions once the knowledge that you're gay is found out. This often happens inadvertently, and people's romantic interests become apparent one way or another. Then when this happens, many people in this world seem to think it is fit to cause you all sorts of anguish. One significant way, among many others in which this happens, is that people collude to make this official through passing laws that discriminate against you in employment and housing. Affecting a person's basic needs. Another is verbal harassment that is direct or indirect(saying something's "gay" that means it's rubbish in e.g,) People aren't exactly ignoring that fact people are gay in our world. So, what really is it you're trying to say, dipshit? Homosexuals don't have to "advertise" anything. Many people deliberately put their noses into it, and given the harmful consequences of this, gay people need to confront this to stop it. It's the only good choice for them to make when dealing with the world. Get It?

It's not about advertising it. It's about representation. I am gay and I feel so alone in it. Seeing other people talk about it openly makes me feel less alone in who I am. And that's why gay people come out publicly and talk about it: to represent it in order to make others feel less alone.

skatersaxman lmao at home? you're not just gay at home, you're gay everywhere. to advertise? for what so people like you can hate. Make things better in the bedroom? If that isnt single handedly the dumbest thing i have ever read. What kind of ignorant idiot comments that. You i guess.

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