I was thinking about what I should write about last night and then I decided to just wait til today. Then something came to my mind when I looked at the watch and realized that March is gone for like......12 days. Why I have to mentioned March is gone because this has to do with the fact that I am gay. I came out to Chuckie 4 years ago (to be more exact, on March 31st, 2007) and that is a historical moment in my life.
Once a while I would back and see what really happened in my life before. It seems that I am the kind of person that tend to look back rather than looking at the present or the future. Looking back is not necessarily that bad, is it?
It is hard for me to explain everything here as some of then happened back in 2007. Let me try to make a little time line here.
These all happened when I was in the U.S. as a high school foreign exchange student
2006- Read the Book "Geography Club" by Brent Hartinger and then started to realize the need of accepting myself as a homosexual
2007- Have emailed Brent a few time talking about my issue and whether I should come out to certain people, especially those I know who are gay
March - Went to NYC again for Spring Break and met Brent in person.
March 31st- Back from NYC and came out to Chuckie.... who were surprised to know and since then he has been very supportive to me
April - Came out to a few more person and they are all very supportive.
June - Chuckie brought me to the city and we had visited the gayborhood in the city as well as the gay support group
Below is what happened in Hong Kong
2007 June- Back in Hong Kong.... feeling weird and closeted back in home
.........lots of things happened since then, including some "experiments"
Somewhere in 2010 (probably Summer)
After "something" happened, I came out to my mom and she was fine with that. She never think being gay is a problem and in fact she more or less sensed that I am gay long ago.... we will talk about this some other time.
2010-2011- came out to a few friends of mine in the university.... they never think being gay is an issue either
As for now, I would considered myself as semi-closeted, only some of those who are very close to me know about it.
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PS. My English writing skill is getting rusty :(
Meanwhile I am trying to reduce the use of "I" in my writings and conversation with others. (At least not using them in the beginning of most of my words)
I have good memory, huh?
Hi Jon ... Found your new blog! Sounds like you have come out to quite a few people. Personally, I find it to be a liberating experience when you come out to someone. I only tell folks that I can trust because when it comes down to it, it's no one's business but yours.
ReplyDeleteI will put up a link on my site to yours, feel free to do the same if you want. I've already added you to my list of regular reads, so I will be by daily.
Take care - glad to have you back in blogging!