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For me, I haven’t really ‘come out’ yet. There’s been no massive moment or anything like that. Yet. I guess I’ve come out to a few people individually but for most of my friends they’ve just kind of got the idea without me saying anything or learnt from rumours spread a few years ago by who I would’ve considered my best friend.
I told her whilst we were discussing celebrity crushes that aside from Pete Wertz and Fred Weasly I also really fancied Krista Stewart and Bellatrix La Strange, which she then took to mean that I was telling her I was a lesbian. She then proceeded to tell the whole school I had come out to her as gay, which at my school didn’t go down very well and soon everyone was looking and laughing at me. The 11 year old year 7 lesbian. I had never even considered questioning my sexuality before then, but afterwards I began learning about all different labels covering gender and sexuality and the LGBTQ+ community and its history.
One of the good things that came out of everyone thinking that I was a lesbian is my best male friend then coming out to me as bisexual. I wasn’t entirely sure what that was at the time but he soon told me, which then resulted to us both coming out to each other within the same 10 minutes.
Now, four years after the first incident I’m surrounded by other LGBTQ+ people, taking part in this project and have come to accept my sexuality and who I am. Gender on the other hand…. What a confusing subject. Honestly I will get to that bridge later. Right now I’m just having fun being an androgynous bisexual confused girl. Nice.