Out on the street: we asked a sampling of LGBT people in Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill, N.C.: "What's your coming-out story?".[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Brad Oaks, 31 programmer (1) A hardware device used to customize a programmable logic chip such as a PAL, GAL, EPROM, etc. See PROM programmer. (2) A person who designs the logic for and writes the lines of codes of a computer program. "I was 16 and reading a gay magazine article about k.d. lang and how she came out at 17. There was a school-wide assembly on diversity, so I decided to come out in front of my school then. The reaction was a lot of support, and even some homophobic ho·mo·pho·bi·a n. 1. Fear of or contempt for lesbians and gay men. 2. Behavior based on such a feeling. [homo(sexual) + -phobia. students came up and said 'That was pretty brave.'" [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Jennifer Jennifer became a common first name for females in English-speaking countries during the 20th century. The name Jennifer is a Cornish variant of Guinevere, deriving ultimately from Proto-Celtic *windo-seibaro- "white ghost", via Brythonic *wino-hibirā (cf. Varani, 25 fishmonger "I was 20 and wrote a five-page letter and sent it to my grandfather, who raised me. A week later he wrote back, 'I don't care
"Don't Care" is a 1994 (see 1994 in music) single by American death metal band Obituary. who you are or what you do as long as you're happy-you will always be my kid.' It had me bawling in the mail room at college." [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Christen chris·ten tr.v. chris·tened, chris·ten·ing, chris·tens 1. a. To baptize into a Christian church. b. To give a name to at baptism. 2. a. Weeden, 26 teacher "I'm still coming out. I was born and raised a Jehovah's Witness Jehovah's Witness Member of an international religious movement founded in Pittsburgh, Pa., by Charles T. Russell in 1872. The movement was originally known as the International Bible Students Association, but its name was changed by Russell's successor, Joseph Franklin , and it's really difficult losing family and gaining new family and friends." [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Tammy Carmack 38 marketing manager "I was 19 and my parents were divorced and I used my mother against my father--I told her it was a secret between us. Years later I told my father, and he said he knew." [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Nicholas Helm, 25 sales associate "When I was 18 my mother found some printed e-mails to--what's a good way of putting it?--tricks, and she decided to have a conversation with me." |
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