My family knows now

My coming out timeline:

August 28, 2003: I first came out to Ann and Chelsea (and the bread-stuffing incident) under the big tree

October 25, 2003: I came out to Lily via her stupid little evil crush e-mail thing.

????: Ann apparently told Joanne (yeah, I know)

December 14, 2004: I came out to my mom. I remember crying so much.

2004: I almost came out to Dan Cashman in Math class if it weren't for that stupid girl obviously staring at me, waiting for a response to his "There's nothing wrong with being gay, you know."

2005: I sent out a quiz about myself and also included something along the lines of "oh, yeah and I'm gay" to my friends and a few family members.

June 24, 2007: I finally came out to my dad.


That's right, I finally did it today. I've been sorta putting it off for a while and Chels said something about maybe he knows already, since I'm pretty out right now, but it was more of the act itself. I was sure maybe he already knew, but it was something I think I needed to go through.

So we were sitting in his car after having lunch and he was talking about school, life, and everything in between (keywords: HE was talking... I wasn't really) Then, I felt we were nearing the conclusion of the conversation so I said, "I have something to tell you." And he said okay. I said, "I think you might know already, but... I'm gay." The words were still very difficult to say; I don't think it will ever be easy for me to say it. He sorta sighed and told me he had a feeling I was, all in a casual voice. I asked he had a problem with it, and he just said that he couldn't force to me to change, but advised me to not go out and "openly display" it because there are people there who will beat me up for it, who would kill me because of who I am. And that's the sad truth. There are some people out there that just really don't like people like me... but I can deal with that.

We didn't really talk about my being gay for very long. I thought it was funny when he asked, "So you don't have a girlfriend. Do you have boyfriends?" (yes, plural) I just smiled and said no. Then he said something about the fact that now there will be no "Chan offspring" and I could replied with something like, "Well, i can always adopt a kid or artificial insemination, and there are other options as well" but I didn't. I don't know if he really meant it because he sort of chuckled after he said that. I think that was about it. We went back to the topic of school and then I went in the house. There were no tears, no bad feelings, no feelings of guilt, no pleas to ask me to date girls... it was almost the opposite of my coming out with my mom.

I feel... not really different, but just a little happy that it went so well.

Also, Ann! Stop stealing my colour!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I will destroy you!!!!

I think it's interesting how Lily has not time to read a small post but yet has the time to post one of her own telling us how she has no time to read them. Very interesting...

Oh, before I forget, Ann, could I borrow one of your many microphones? I want to see if I can record stuff/song onto my laptop. I'm probably going to see you in 2 hours so I can ask you then, but... I don't know.

~~Aaron