Sounds like my kind of celebrating

So did anyone else drunkenly come out to their parents at midnight last night?

Everything has been going well since I told them last night. I was never worried about telling them, just never knew when to do it. Doing it on NYE wasn't the plan but at least it's over with now

how'd they receive it?

Hope you had a great NYE ^.^

LOL Mossy, I saw your tweet and insta-thought that this was what must have happened.

Hope it's going great!

What are peoples' twitters? Im wazzbert

protentialmn is mine. ^.^

@rcwillie1 - tweet tweet!

Come on, there has to be more story than this.

I just saw on Twitter that Vanessa just got engaged, and it made me want to pop itt to (a) share the good news with anybody who might have missed it and (b) reflect that, despite the many challenges that gay people still face in our society, from a historical perspective, we all are pretty darn lucky to be living in an era of relative freedom.

Happy New Year everyone, I hope it's a great one on and off the tables!

PS: totally in for some queer shenanigans at the series!

The past few days have had their awkward moments but everything has generally been positive. I think my mom is upset I didn't tell her earlier, she's beating herself up for me "not trusting" her enough to do so, but we've talked through that and I think she understands I just needed a lot of time to work out some things on my own.

I'm just ready to tell my siblings and then put something small on Facebook/twitter acknowledging my sexuality. I've written countless blogs/coming out letters over the past year that are all stored on my computer. After being an ass and texting my parents the "news" on NYE I think it's only fair to give them some time to accept this as well before announcing anything, though.

I promise to follow you again if you don't live-tweet every online mtt youre playing like a few months ago

I'll just tweet when i make ft's. Ever other mtt :P

I have my first date with a guy Monday!

idk what we're gonna do

Oh wait, wtf am I thinking? I hung out with a guy a couple times a few months ago. He wasn't my type imo.

... is hanging out a date?

Congrats. You guys could hang out.

I'd think not. Depending on how it ends.

Depends on what's hanging out.

What RJ said... Also, ime, if you end up really dating the person, then the first few hang outs get rounded up to dates... Otoh, if things fizzle out quickly, I usually just say, "we hung out a few times" and that implies something that was a little more than platonic friendship, but not particularly serious...

Of course, girls are notorious for bringing UHauls on the third date, so ymmv when you're hanging out with guys...

Don't know if there's much to comment on here, and I hope this isn't too blog-ish, but I don't really feel too comfortable talking about being gay with people in real life yet even though I really do want to have those conversations. So I have to do a little sharing here. And then LirvA can bring us back on topic with how his date went.

Since coming out to some friends/coworkers, three of the guys have, when alone with me and at a break in the conversation, started with a "so..." in a tone that makes me laugh because I know exactly where the conversation is going. Well, maybe I wasn't sure where the conversation would go, but I knew the topic at least.

One just asked when I was going to tell my parents (really, he started with, "So, when are you going to tell your parents?"). Another said he obviously didn't know I was gay before and wanted to apologize in case he had previously said anything insensitive (he hadn't). The third said, "What's this I hear about you being attracted to other men?" (in a cheerful tone). He's the first to say he wasn't surprised. He claims that he couldn't get a lock on my sexual orientation before, and that's normally his clue to someone being gay. I guess I can believe that.

In the end, everyone cared as little as they should have. And yet, tonight, I held off on coming out to 2 more people when the conversation would have been less awkward if I had just done it. I let everyone else continue in the conversation while I got up to get myself a drink at that point so I wouldn't have say anything or make eye contact. I'm a little mad at myself, tbh.

Sounds like the third guy is gay himself?

I'm the same way. ... I mean, I'm bi, not totally gay, but I don't think that's really relevant or changes anything. I've talked openly about all that stuff with just two of my friends ... and idk if my other close friends know or not. It's weird. I kinda hope the guy I'm going to hang out with tomorrow becomes my bf so I can just put him under my relationship status on FB and be done with it, but idk if that's good enough.

idk how to do this **** either man :/

No, I've heard him talk so openly about his life (with his wife) and also intelligently about homosexuality that I can't see him not having come out if he were gay. I just didn't know how to portray his tone adequately, but wanted to make sure you guys didn't think he asked that in a bad way.

That would be weird as **** if someone asked me that tbh and I wouldn't know how to react. But I'm pretty private and reserved about that kind of stuff.

I could almost see that making things a little worse temporarily as you would assume that some people must have read your FB and know, but you wouldn't know who's read and talked and who hasn't and still doesn't know. It does seem like it would force the conversation sooner, though.

Assuming you're talking about me and guy #3: It wasn't so weird for me, actually, and I am very private and reserved as well. By that point, the most gossipy person in our group knew, so I assumed (incorrectly, it seems) that everyone else knew as well. He was asking in more of a "I just found out and wanted to let you know that I know" sense, just getting it out there so that he wouldn't have to keep it a secret from me and to let me know that all was good.

Hangout went well! But I got stoned and kinda conked out. Weed has a tendency to put me out and I wasn't real talkative, but he's down for hanging out again.