For some people, like Eleanor, coming out is a process that takes years of slow realization and approaching the truth like a nervous animal. Sometimes you have to come out more than once, even to yourself, before you can really truly come out at…
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Coming Out: Stories Out of the Closet
Whether you are in a similar situation or want to read about someone going through it, there are a lot of great options out there now of stories on coming out, both fiction and nonfiction, comics and novels. Hopefully there's an option just for you!
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- Alice's last relationship ended when she confessed to her girlfriend that she was asexual. Her family only knows she's bi, not that she's ace. Alice decides it's time to call it quits on romance until she meets Takumi, and can't stop thinking about…
- Not exactly your typical coming out story, since it's about life after a spouse dies and living with the family that disowned your spouse for his sexuality, but it does cover how coming out can be a process and how it can take time for people to…
- Hani's coming out as bi doesn't quite work as planned and suddenly she finds herself claiming to be dating Ishu, a girl she doesn't even like as a person. They work out a deal to help each other with this lie, but feelings might change with time.
- Far from a how-to, the title is a joke Rebecca Burgess is making about how hard it can be to know what the feelings you're having mean. This is a story of Rebecca's experiences growing up and learning that there's not something wrong with her and…
- Pony's tired of the spotlight he was put under at his last school when he came out as trans, so for senior year at his new school he's keeping quiet. Similarly, Georgia has decided senior year is the one to focus on school and skip on dating. And…
- Maia Kobabe discusses what the experience of being genderqueer is like for em, and how that was a process of slow realization over time. E covers life from childhood all the way to adult, including some painful and difficult doctor visits, first…
- Ramona thought she knew at least some things for sure, like how she likes girls, loves her family, and is determined to get out of this town. But then an old friend returns, and with Freddie comes a newfound love of swimming and possibly, feelings…
- Kabi Nagata started writing journal entries to herself as part of trying to figure out her life, and her honesty towards her struggles not just with her sexuality, but her anxiety and depression including eating disorders and self harm. She peppers…
- Jake wants to know about the ocean, so much that he plans to go to university in Florida to study oceanology. His mom wants him to stay in Arizona, far away from water. Then there's Kenny, the swimmer at school he's quietly crushing on. Soon he'll…
- Sana knows and keeps a lot of secrets. When her family moves to California and she meets Jamie, she thinks it'll be hard to tell people she wants to date a girl. Turns out that's not actually the hard part, and secrets aren't that great anyway.
- This is actually the followup to Julia Kaye's collection of comics about coming out as trans and going through transition, but this book follows her life after that, showing that transition and coming out is a process that can be long and continues…
- Things seem pretty simple to Mady; she goes to church, she watches minor league baseball with her Dad, and she hangs out with her best friend Cat. Then it turns out her dad is hiding a secret, and Mady can't figure out why she doesn't want to kiss…
- Juliet is pretty sure she only likes guys, but telling her family that is much harder than having that realization. Right before she leaves for an internship in Portland with her favorite author, Juliet comes out to her parents. They stop speaking…
- At Boy Scout summer camp, Aiden just wants to escape everything from his life. But he finds himself confronting feelings for his tentmate Elias and his beliefs from how he was raised, things only get tougher until he hits a breaking point and comes…
- Growing pains can also be the pain of realizing things about yourself, and that's definitely what Tasuku is encountering as he deals with the fact that he's attracted to boys, what life is like for other queer people in Japan.
- Morgan is out as gay, to the point that she had to transfer from her previous Catholic school. At her new school, she meets Ruby who is bi but in the closet, forced to compete in pageants when she's not working on her pet project of a 1970 Ford…
- Told somewhat backwards from the present, Chii goes through how transition worked for her in Japan, meeting her now husband, dating, and eventually getting married. Heartwarming for sure!
- George explores aspects of his life, from being a kid all the way to college, as a way to celebrate Black queer boys and highlight the difficulties they face.
- A coming out of a different kind, in a future where body modifications are the norm, some people have immune systems that reject them. Austen is one of those people, and as she and Sunati start dating, they have to work together to understand each…
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