Thursday Afternoon I made a speech to my class about myself being gay. As well as this I came clean to my whole class about how I have struggled with depression and have done self-harm. The speech was 8 mins long about my struggle with sexuality and hiding who I was. After my speech the class gave me a standing ovation. Some of my closest friends were crying and some who I'm not even close to were crying. After the speech people came individually to me hugging me and talking to me about it. I had never told a guy I was gay and the guys came up and hugged me and said I have balls. No one even cared I was gay they were more concerned about the depression. Obviously news spread throughout the school and literally no one cared and now a huge weight feels lifted off my shoulders. I now feel completely clean and re-newed. I've been pretty inactive on here recently because of this because I have so much stuff happening irl. My female friends now want me to come over for a sleepover next weekend LOL. But yea it feels great and just felt like posting this even for myself so I can look back at this and remember how good I feel right now ^_^
I mean, grats regardless! Just never heard of something so public to come out. I just told my close friends and I told them they could tell other people and soon everyone knew after a month or so lol
good on ya bro, you are a strong person to have done that, but not only have you helped you self, you have helped others who are hding away in your school aswell. i hope you are truly proud of ya self, i know i proud of you for standing up and being heard :)
teamjacz keep in mind that, although i do not know, you probably graduated a few years ago. times are different now even though it's been a very short amount of time. and dantez lives in a upper-class city in canada filled with stereotypical white girls who LOVE gays.
That's a huge thing to do, and to be able to speak about it for 8 minutes isn't even a quarter of what you went through, so to get those reactions.. I say you've done well!