I had to be told, at 17, that a relative was gay, and she lived with her partner! we had stayed at their house quite a few times. I remember just one high school classmate coming out as bi. I had gay teachers whom I did not know were gay.
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My best and only friend in 5th grade was also a troubled queer kid. He had a boyfriend in malibu. The bad boy in 5th grade I'm sure was gay too and years later he did drag routine in front of his mirrored closet for me during a school project. That guy became hardcore Catholic though.
I didn’t fully understand I was gay until the middle of highschool because of how deep in the closet I was. I was clearly attracted to men but whenever I felt it I was like “no no, I’m projecting onto them and that’s why I feel that way” It was until I genuinely dated a man I realized that I was gay
Not one, but TWO of my childhood best friends have also come out as trans. And we all grew up in conservative religious households. It's honestly very fascinating to me how we managed to just naturally find each other even if none of us had any clue what was going on at the time.
