Jake’s Life

A lot of the blogs I read everyday–and those I link to in my blogroll–feature bloggers who are in the process of coming out. Some are already out completely and some are documenting their own coming out as it happens. Many of them show the usual and normal emotions affiliated with coming out: fear of those close to them not being accepting, friends and family thinking less of them. One constant I’ve seen is that once they have successfully come out to one, others are nearer to knowing and most of the person’s fears are invalidated once the typical “Oh you’re my son/friend/cousin/grandson and always will be” talk happens.

I want to give a different side of coming out, and explain my history to those who read my blog. I have a feeling that once many read that they will understand me much better, whether it be my outlook on life, my views on social issues, my bluntness, etc.

While the story will start at the whole “gay thing” it will go beyond coming out, as that situation opened up several others that I want people to be able to peek into. I am going to be splitting it up into a few chunks, so this is mainly the precursor. Consider this the back of the book, telling you about a story of a boy in a single parent family who comes out, faces the challenges of several schools, homelessness, intolerance, and being the only one in his environment who is honest about being gay. All in all, I think he turned out to be an okay guy in the end.