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I Came Out Over Thanksgiving

The last Thursday in November is the real National Coming Out Day

It's one of the few days of the year the whole family gets together, so it's not surprising many LGBT people choose to come out over Thanksgiving.

Ideally the spirit of togetherness smooths over any bumps—but, at the very least, you get it all out of the way all at once.

One redditor, the Savage Norwegian, shared his story of coming out to his Christian family on Turkey Day.

Came out as gay today, to my very religious family: parents included. About 15 of us there. Cousins already knew, and they're cool with it. They egged me into doing it really.

I wanted to do it today, so I can bring my boyfriend of one year to Christmas.

They were all shocked. We went about our thanksgiving business afterword, but I can tell it hurt them. Got a ride back home with the cool cousins, who were proud of me. Small comfort, since I call Mom an hour ago, and she's sobbing.

They're fundamentalist Christians, and I was too, for years and years. (I'm 22 now.) So she's in denial, saying I'm making a mistake. She didn't tell me to my face that I'm hellbound, but that's what she was thinking. And now I'm crying, too.

Even if they can become comfortable with me again, I'm afraid that soon they'll see me as their cross to bear. Isn't it awful that even your son can be corrupted? My heart is broken that they can't accept me.

To makes matter worse, his uncle handed him a letter before he left, a "plea" for the redditor to change his wicked ways.

"He mentioned a couple verses I should look at too. (A couple in Leviticus and a chapter of Romans. I could probably quote them without looking them up)," writes Savage Norwegian, who says he can't even hate his uncle because the guy is so thoroughly indoctrinated.

"The only thing keeping them from speaking their mind and casting me out is how 'Minnesota Nice' (read: passive aggressive) we all are."

Well, isn't that special.

Did you come out over the holidays? How did it go?

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