A 20-Something’s 16-Step Guide To Coming Out As Gay

Thought Catalog
4 min readJun 18, 2020
Polina Tankilevitch

1. Exist. Be born. Do normal baby things. Cry a lot. Play with your toys. Start to learn how to talk. Gasp out some baby words and toddler phrases. Learn to walk, learn to play, learn to laugh, learn to tease your little sister.

2. Get older. Go to school, make friends, make enemies, make inappropriate jokes and ugly drawings your parents hang on the wall. Have a moment you…

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