LGBTQIAP+ Milestones: Book 4

Coming Out Can Change Someone

Anonymous

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I was out of the closet at school in the third grade because of the boy that used to like me. Lasted for two years and sometimes now. I just graduated tenth grade (woohoo) and in the past years of being out, people looked at me differently. Some were still the same like nothing changed except they would ask me "Is this girl pretty?" Or "What do you think of him? Should I ask him out?" I would say just go with their guts and sometimes say "yeah, she's pretty but not my type." Then there are those who looked at me at a very different way.I had a friend, she was great in arts and anything related to that. She tried guitar and ukulele and does covers on her Facebook and sometimes on Twitter or her stories in Instagram. (Not a great singer) Anyways, this girl... she was kinda homophobic because well, another friend of ours was also bisexual (let's call her Patrice). She liked this homophobic friend of ours.On my birthday, ms. Homophobic gave me a letter and wrote that I was the reason why Patrice became bisexual. Being bisexual is not a disease, you can't control love or what ever emotions you are feeling. Ms. Homophobic thought that after the letter she gave me on my birthday we were cool. Yeah... NO! In the fifth grade, she asked me to defend her on my birthday because she got into a fight with someone. She tried to flirt with me, so that I could defend her. She thought I liked her because I told her I was bisexual. I didn't helped her.In conclusion, there are some people who would still treat you the same and there are others that will use your sexuality as a way to get what they want or change their perspective about you. So, what happened to my relationship with Ms. Homophobic? I ended our friendship in the eighth grade and she keeps on coming back asking for advice about boys but I keep on declining her.-Author of What Love Does to Us and Openly Bi