COMING OUT STORY: HOLIDAY EDITION
Anyone else feel a little anxious around the holiday season and spending time around family?! No? Just us? Cool cool cool. Ha. We were thinking…there is no better way to embrace seasonal depression and awkward family get togethers than to share some coming out stories. FUN!
Whether you came out 45 years ago or last week - we are HERE FOR ALL THE TEA!
It’s kind of like sharing your favorite hometown murder. If you have one you would like to share please email us at hi@queerdenverliving.com - they can be anonymous or not!
Our friend Megan shared their story and it’s a perfect read for the holiday season.
From Megan:
“I never really had an official coming out, I just always knew I was bi (my first kiss was with a girl in my neighbor’s pool when I was 8 ). But the first time I acknowledged it out loud to my family was actually during the holidays; every year my dad puts the lights on the Christmas tree (a very long, arduous, artfully done process; we’re talking many layers of lights) and my mom makes a big pot of her mom’s spaghetti recipe. That year, I think I was 13 or 14, I was watching my dad do the lights and my mom called out “you know Meg, one of these years you’re gonna have to watch me make this sauce so you can make it while your husband lights the tree,” and without thinking I just called back “I think I’d rather do the lights and my wife can make the sauce.”
And both of my parents paused what they were doing for a second, looked at me, and then just shrugged and said “yeah, that works too,” and that was that.
And they’ve been totally unphased by and supportive of my intensifying queerness ever since! I’m very aware of how lucky I am to have been born into such an accepting family.”
