Hey LGBTQ+ Pandas, In Honor Of Pride Month, How Did You Come Out? (Closed)

I yelled it at my parents from my room😂

I talked to my therapist first and then told my parents that I maybe liked a girl.

i came out on christmas by giving them a card. not going so hot…

I was signing up for therapy with my mom. I told her that I was pan but I’m pretty sure she thinks I’m a lesbian, idk.

Second time I came out to her as trans and that I’m agender, idk what happened though. Her and my dad have been really accepting which I’m thankful for.

I'm out to everyone but my family. I have no idea when I want to come out, but I do know that I want to do the cake thing. I want the cake because my flag only has 3 colors so it would be easy to make and because I'll have cake to celebrate if it goes well and if it goes bad then I have cake to cry eat.

I told my mom and 2 friends I'm was bi.
Wore a subtle bi shirt to my dad.
Will post a bi pin that I own on Facebook for the rest of Friends/family.

Honestly it was a rollercoaster for me
I'm 20, pan and nonbinary, with a transfem older sister

I wasn't the "miserable trans child", I was the "oblivious about gender stuf" (probably because I'm on the spectrum, because sometimes I still can't process it)

I was 14-15 when I fully realized I wasn't a girl, and it was because my friends said it'd be fun to dress up as boys one day for school.
It wasn't because I ended up with the biggest existential crisis I'd ever had.

Then I told them, because I wanted to experiment with male pronouns (I live in Spain and the language sadly is very gendered so I was clueless about neutral pronouns), the accepting friends I kept, the dumb ones I learned to ignore over time.

I cut my 24 inches hair and rocked an undercut for a year till I discovered genderfluid and nonbinary was a thing, and met the greatest egg I've ever met, who later came out as agender and who's family has been one of my main supports.

Then I told my psychology class when I was 17 doing a presentation with my best friend, where she asked if they would recognize a trans person even if they hadn't been told (they were so full of lies because none of them knew except my friends) and then me sitting on a table called them out, followed by a big group hug (I'm touch averse but it was so emotional and nerve wracking that I didn't even care) and proceeded to gaslight the rest of the class into using my preferred name without having to explain anything because they just copied the others (I told them when they asked but really I was just happy to enjoy the interactions bc it was my last year on that school and didn't feel the need to explain my existence to anyone).

Now, everyone knew but my family, and even knowing that they couldn't react wrong (my sister had come out a few years prior to me and everyone was happy for her) I still had anxiety and depression to keep me from saying anything.

After 3 years and 2 failed attempts at telling them (it's hard to get attention when there are 7 siblings) I finally ended up having a really bad panic attack one day on the shower and ended up telling them (-15/10 experience, wouldn't recommend at all)
Some took more time to get with it because apparently my sister had been very obvious when growing up, but i was just a quiet drawing animals kind of kid.

It's been almost 3 years since that and while some people are really confused I'm mostly good with everything, because I have a really supportive family and group of online and irl friends that help me ignore idiots.

Hope everyone has a Happy Pride Month and a reminder that you don't need to come out to be you, and even if your current situation is not good, you can get to a better one. 🏳️‍🌈
(Sorry if this was too long)

I didn't really come out, tbh.. A school counselor outed me to my parents and it sort of went from there. I'm pan, and nonbinary. Lol they did NOT take it well.

Well to one of my friends and my mom I just told them, but the interesting one is actually how I accidentally came out to my friend which I had a crush on (She doesn’t know that though).
We were in our chemistry class room looking at a periodic table and I point at bismuth and said it was me. That’s how she found out.

Was in the car, coming back from my karate class. I had planned on telling my mother (who was the only other person in the car) for a while—I sure as hell wasn't planning on coming out that night—but maybe the leftover thrill from the class gave me a bit of confidence. I think what I said was something like "So, I've been meaning to tell you this for a while; I'm pansexual." She didn't actually know what it was, and I had to explain it to her afterwards. She totally understood. That's pretty much it.

When I told my mom she was like “okay, that’s chill- but you’re too young” WHAT?

as a nonbinary pansexual it took me a while to figure it out but i just kinda told my parents and they accepted me

I believe it was roughly 10 years ago to my mom. My birthday is Dec. 30, so I usually wait until the 41st to get really drunk (if I have no work the next day). I can't quite remember what I said, but I did come out as not entirely straight. Still not sure what I would really consider myself to be.

I've done it twice so far. The first time was a bit of a mess: I played "Girls Love Girls and Boys" by Panic! at the Disco, but my mom wasn't quite listening so I had to explain the lyrics to her. I was so nervous that I told her "I'm the B", as in LG(B)T, but with no context - she thought I was telling her I was a trans boy and started saying she was surprised as I was a very girly kid. Eventually, we cleared things up and after some crying, I calmed down and she accepted me.

The second time, we had just finished a certain episode of One Day At A Time (the one where Elena realizes she never felt anything for a boy she kissed), and I just explained to my mom that I thought I felt the same way. She was supportive then too, and she asked if I wanted her to tell the rest of the family. I said yes, which I kind of regret because nobody else asked me any questions about it and I still don't know who she actually told or not. But all in all, I'm a lot more confident about myself now and it pretty much all worked out.

I haven't come out officialy, but I think everyone knows.

I'm still in the closet to most people, but one of my friends, who is out to her parents, they told her it was just a phase and are sending her to a christian school.
I know that it is not really coming out, but it is the aftermath of coming out.

I was walking with friends in the local gay men's chorus during a Pride March in the capitol. Little did I know I walked right past a reporter. My aunt saw me on 48 Hours that night in a clip focusing on marches in state capitols. She lives on the other side of the country. Got an interesting phone call that night. She was curious and supportive. Less than 10 seconds on a news montage and my family knew.

Drunkenly! My friend and a family friend was telling my mom how he was going to officiate his first gay wedding and how excited he was and my response was, “Well if I ever get married you can make it two!” And they paused, seemed mildly surprised and we talked about other things.

I came out as non-binary the day before my birthday. I sent an email during class time and ended up mostly getting comments on my writing skills. It's not always easy (my parents keep forgetting to use my preferred pronouns), but they've mostly been very supportive.

My tip for coming out is that there's no right or wrong way to come out. You can make it a big thing with cupcakes, just let it slip in a conversation, or even just send a text or email if you don't want to see their reaction in person. Whatever you think is best is good!

I am bisexual, Was talking about my current partner with my mum (male, I am female) and about past partners and casually said I had been with women too, it took until this year to tell my mum (I am 35) but she seems ok with it, she just carried on the conversation as though I hadn’t said anything and nothing has been mentioned again.