[Bigi] Re: coming out process

[Thadd Liszkowski]

I came out when i was in high school (puberty for me). People thought I was
weird, but I had a sound philosophical basis for my belief in bisexuality
(that one loves people, not necessarily just their genitalia :), and was
fairly well-liked, at least as much as the next high school kid.

My parents hated it, especially my mother, who is a (rather normative,
unfortunately) psychologist. She kept insisting that I had to "decide"
between straight and gay, and was always relieved when my date was a girl
:) Slowly she moved into the "It's all right to be gay, you know" phase and
finally into the "you don't sleep with children/tie people up/wear women's
clothing/want to change your sex, do you?" thing.

I've always been more or less non-sexual at work, because I believe that
given our puritanical and capitalistic society (protestant work ethic),
it's always the safest course regardless of one's identification. Recently,
I've been even more careful, since I took a job as a teacher.

So I'm more in the closet now than I've ever been, and it's darn
uncomfortable!

Thadd