{"id":240,"date":"2008-01-25T00:40:51","date_gmt":"2008-01-25T04:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kuma2.net\/blog\/?p=240"},"modified":"2008-02-06T08:42:25","modified_gmt":"2008-02-06T12:42:25","slug":"kuma-project-2-coming-out-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kuma2.net\/blog\/?p=240","title":{"rendered":"Kuma Project #2 – Coming Out Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"

Deadline: March 15, 2008<\/p>\n

Tell us your coming out story. Not when you decided to tell someone else–but when you first came out to yourself.<\/p>\n

Things to Consider<\/strong>
\nHow did it happen? Was your sexuality a question you were wrestling with for a while? What it “aha!” moment? Maybe it wasn’t something you had to struggle with at all–just something new you discovered about yourself when puberty hit? What was going on in your life at the time? How did you come to the realization that you weren’t the straight?<\/p>\n

After you came out to yourself . . .<\/strong>
\nHow did the realization change your view of yourself? What happened to your self image? How did you reconcile this new information with the old assumptions you had of yourself? Were you immediately able to embrace your whole self or did it take some work? Are you still working on self acceptance?<\/p>\n

Other things to pounder . . . <\/strong>
\nDid you have to come out to yourself more than once? Maybe you thought you were a lesbian, but discovered down the line that you were actually bisexual–or transgendered?<\/p>\n

Email your story to kumaxtasy2@kuma2.net<\/a> and put “Coming Out Story” as the subject.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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