Coming Out Vigil -- October, 2005

Every year of college I read something at the Coming Out Vigil. My senior year, one of my best friends, Allie, and I read something together. We told the story of our journey as roommates, friends, and becoming each other's families. The part of "other" was read by another good friend, Erin. For the right/center/left portion, I read the right column, Erin read "Tonight I come out as," Allie and I read the other center items together, and Allie read the left column.

Other: July 22, 2003
Me: Mom, she likes Norah Jones!
Allie: Mom, she likes to sleep naked, too!
Me: Mom, she's BRETHREN!!
Allie: Mom, she's the secretary of United Sexualities!
Other: Maybe she is a lesbian...
Allie: Oh...
Me: Mom, what if she hates gay people?...
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Me: That night, I came out to her.
Allie: I came out as hating president bush.
Me: I came out as liking to sleep naked.
Allie: I came out as brethren.
Me: I came out as a lesbian.
Allie: I came out as an ally.
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Me: Tonight, we come out, in front of all of you, yet again.

Tonight I come out as

Being open to possibilities

Tonight I come out as

A lesbian

Tonight I come out as

Being comfortable with finding women attractive

Tonight I come out as

A democrat

Tonight I come out as

Preparing for heartbreak 2005

Tonight I come out as

Wanting children

Tonight I come out as

Having the babysitter's club movie nearly memorized

Tonight I come out as

Having 7... or 8... tattoos

Tonight I come out as

Usually being naked

Tonight I come out as

Liking lima beans

Tonight I come out as

Craving yogurt and granola

Tonight I come out as

Confused

Tonight I come out as

Simply loving the movie Dirty Dancing

Tonight I come out as

Moving on from my past

Tonight I come out as

Liking country music... and knowing most of the words to quite a few songs

Tonight I come out as

Often sitting in my underwear, eating Chinese food

Tonight I come out as

Pierced

Tonight I come out as

Liking Usher. No... loving Usher.

Tonight I come out as

Liking gay people. No... loving gay people.

Tonight I come out as

a feminist

Tonight I come out as

Being proud of my orange hair, even if it makes me a target of hate.

Tonight I come out as

Loving our Canadians AND their gay bars

Tonight I come out as

A goddess worshipping pagan

Tonight I come out as

Having a weakness for waitresses

Tonight I come out as

Despising wal-mart, yet still going there once... or twice... a month

Tonight I come out as

Liberal

Tonight I come out as

Craving friendship and acceptance

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Allie: Tonight, we chose to come out together.

Me: We come out as comfortable in our own skins. No matter the form, sexuality, or sexual orientation.

Allie: We come out as different... yet very much the same.

Me: We come out as the same... yet very different.

Both: And in a world where labels didn't matter... we could come out as exactly the same.