Sometimes coming out isn’t exactly as glamorous as Diana Ross sang about, but each story is unique and offers its own insight, writes UCD LGBT Auditor Jack Carolan.
When I was ten-years-old, a boy in my class told me that “gay” was the word you called a boy who liked other boys. That was when I realised I was gay. I had known before then that there was such a thing as being gay, but only when someone said the word to me did it become real.
Looking back now, I don’t understand how it took that long. I had to be Princess Peach every time I played Mario Kartand I knew, and unashamedly still know, the words and choreography to the majority of Britney Spears’ greatest hits. Lady Gaga clearly was singing about my personal experience when she said, “I was born this way.”
Despite the ease at which I accepted my own homosexuality at ten years of age, it wasn’t until I was thirteen that I even discussed with other people my attraction to the same sex.
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