You’d think that by now that I’d have a lot less coming out to do. This is especially true since I’m pretty comfortable telling most of the people that I meet in non-professional environments about my sexuality from the get go.
Given that I now work full time however, it in undeniable that many of my friends (present and future) will come from professional environments where I’m definitely not AS comfortable. As mentioned before I am out to one or two people here but that was pretty much it.
I am however now completely out at work here in London. I came out to my gym buddy 2 days after that freak London snow storm happened and then I did it en masse last week when a group of us were heading out for lunch.
It was really funny because one of my friends who had already known was there and she found my nervousness really hilarious.
Sitting at that table, I grew a pair and I pretty much said “I’m dating a guy.”
There was no weird reaction of any kind. In fact, everyone said “That’s great” and then asked the dreaded “So what’s going to happen with you leaving soon?” I pretty much changed the topic once it got to that point because I’m in denial about the fact that I’m leaving.
In fact, I even invited DT to my work going away party last Friday and he got along really well with everyone. At the party, one girl was like “You should have told me so much earlier. I would have shown you all of the hotspots!”
With regards to DT, they all really liked him and he thought they were pretty cool people. In fact, one guy asked me how he was doing just yesterday.
This is the first time I’ve felt comfortable enough to do this and I’m not sure whether my new found confidence will travel with me across the pond but I do think I’ll be a bit less secretive overall within the work environment in NYC.
Perhaps I’ll come out to a few close colleagues but probably not take the en masse route I did here in London.
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