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- From: scott@bbx.basis.com (Scott Amspoker)
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- Subject: Re: My 5-year HS Reunion... the results!
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- Date: 30 Dec 92 04:59:37 GMT
- References: <1hon97INNc79@sdl.Warren.MENTORG.COM> <1992Dec30.022504.18017@oracle.us.oracle.com>
- Organization: BASIS International, Ltd., Albuquerque NM USA
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- In article <1992Dec30.022504.18017@oracle.us.oracle.com> dgilly@us.oracle.com (Daniel Gilly) writes:
- >Amazing but true, isn't it? Many times, people are relying on
- >clues from us as to how to react. If you introduce the topic by saying,
- >for example, "I have something important to tell you," and then
- >whisk the person off to a corner, your announcement sounds like
- >you're confiding a terrible skeleton in your closet. I get a big
- >kick out of the various casual ways I've managed to clue people in.
-
- My own favorite coming out story:
-
- A close friend reported to me that a female friend of mine made a
- comment that "Scott must either be gay or really fucked up." Since
- I worked with female friend's husband (also a good friend) I decide
- to take the husband out for beers after work that day. (These are
- people I knew before I was out in any way - always the hardest to tell.)
-
- After a bit of superficial small talk I cut to the chase. I told him
- of the comment his wife made and said, "I apologize if I have confused
- anybody and I want you to rest assured that I'm not fucked up". He
- put on a big grin and let me know that everything was totally cool.
- We poured some more beers and had some good laughs. It turned out
- he was feeling as much relief as I was. Part of this was because
- I suddenly made sense to him and appeared to be a whole person who
- was reasonably happy (which he was concerned about). He also
- confessed that he grew up as homophobic as the next guy (and had
- been in the military) but had simply outgrown it over the years. I
- guess I was the proof he needed that he had developed a more mature
- relationship with the world around him and that our friendship was one of
- the rewards for it. It turns out the wife was also relieved to find out
- there was nothing wrong with me. Cool people.
-
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- Scott Amspoker |
- Basis International, Albuquerque, NM | Too bad ignorance isn't really
- | bliss. Then it could be outlawed.
- scott@bbx.basis.com |
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