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Dan Howell: “Basically, I’m Gay”


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HotLikeMexico
41 minutes ago, PinkPop said:

ah bless :( no one should have to carry this for this long, no one in the world

 

I might get **** for this but agree to disagree. 

 

There are no right way to come out and everyone goes through their Journey different. I came out when I was 15 (2009 or so). I was actually outed by someone on my soccer team. He apparently saw me kiss my best friend. So word spread and I just decided to come out and just used the rumor as my way out. Anyways the person who outed me bullied me for the rest of time time we were in HS together. Thankfully I just ignored him. Anyways I always had a feeling he was gay and everytime I’d tell him he was gay, he get so angry and attack me. He would get so offended and call me the F word and everyone sided with him everytime they’d see him go at me. It wasnt till way after HS in college that he came out and then had the nerve to hit on me, never once did he apologize for trying to make my life miserable in HS all still while being on the same sports team with him that whole time. What pissed me off was that he got so much praise for coming out and while teenage me got made fun of for it. 

 

I know I should forgive him, but whenever I see videos of someone getting so offended and angry at being called gay and people saying aww poor them, I get angry and think about my situation in high school with that boy and how he took away my own experience to properly come out. I know it’s not the same person and it’s not the same situation but it’s something I usually don’t back on those kinds of videos or feel bad for them, and it could quite possibly be wrong of me. 

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StarstruckIllusion

well you don’t have to be rude by being like “sis we could tell, no ones surprised” but also teehee it’s more shocking he actually came out... feels like he’d never. I hope this improves his mental health <333

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Zander

Glad to see him talk openly and freely about it and authentically living his truth now- definitely a huge weight off your shoulders. 

I do feel for him trying to have the private life he wants because his fans are known to be crazily obsessed, invasive, and kinda stalkerish. I think it goes for anyone well known who intentionally wants to keeps their private life private its seen as an invitation for some people to invade it. 

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Tycho

Really proud of him for coming out! I imagine with a growing empire based on mostly teenage girls as a fanbase coming out as gay must've felt a bit of a risk. Glad he doesn't have to hide himself anymore and I hope it brings a lot of positive change for him. A couple of minutes in right now but relating hard already, schools a bitch.

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1 minute ago, HotLikeMexico said:

I might get **** for this but agree to disagree. 

 

There are no right way to come out and everyone goes through their Journey different. I came out when I was 15 (2009 or so). I was actually outed by someone on my soccer team. He apparently saw me kiss my best friend. So word spread and I just decided to come out and not lie and just used the rumor as my way out. Anyways the person who outed me bullied me for the rest of time time we were in HS together. Thankfully I just ignored him. Anyways I always had a feeling he was gay and everytime I’d tell him he was gay, he get so angry and attack me. He would get so offended and call me the F word and everyone sided with him everytime they’d see him go at me. It wasnt till way after HS in college that he came out and then had the nerve to follow years later to hit on me, never once did he apologize for trying to make my life miserable in HS all still while being on the same sports team with him that whole time. What pissed me off was that he got so much praise for coming out and while teenage me got made fun of for it. 

 

I know I should forgive him, but whenever I see videos of someone getting so offended and angry at being called gay and people saying aww poor them, I get angry and think about my situation in high school with that boy and how he took away my own experience to properly come out. I know it’s not the same person and it’s not the same situation but it’s something I usually don’t back on those kinds of videos. 

i was talking about the whole 'coming out' situation in general.

 

do you know what's peculiar? i know EXACTLY how you feel. When I was in school, I was the camp 'girly' gay one and I wasn't even out. Everyone took the mick out of me and I got bullied for not even being gay, but just acting camp. My situation wasn't as severe as yours but for me, this guy who was friends with me went to the 'cool group' and joined in with the gay jokes.

That same guy told me was gay two years ago and he was applauded for it. All of his homophobic friends who teased and bullied me and used to say 'go on, let's hear you talk' because apparently i spoke like a female were fully supportive. now i'm glad they are no longer homophobic, because i don't want homophobic people around, PERIOD. but there's that part of me, that young boy that remembers how i felt when i was isolated and i had no one fending for me but now it's all of a sudden okay to be gay. i confronted the guy and he completely denies ever being homophobic.

I'm sorry this happened to you and I'm sorry it happened to me, but we have a story to tell and when we tell our story - it's our voice that is hopefully one day gonna have some effect to eventually make some significant change; so no one has to feel like this.

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ferretti

Dunno who this is, but he can have it 

hot ice cream GIF

 

Edit: I did watch (most) of this video and it's really sweet and sad and beautiful. Love him, whoever he is.

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TimisaMonster

Oh wow? Really? No way...:awkney:

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TimisaMonster
1 hour ago, RAMROD said:

Same Mendes foreshadowing? :oprah:

Of course...most gay people deny before coming out...idk why people are shocked a Male pop star run by label heads and with 99% girl fans would also not do the same 

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