We are Human: Coming Out Colorful

Support is Great

My coming out story... I came out a little over a year ago. Originally it was just a few friends. Then I decided to come out to my school over social media. Generally everyone was nice and supportive and happy for me. Even some teachers found out and congratulated me. So january comes around and I came out to my parents. It was a bit of an accident because they took my phone and saw some screenshots between friends of me talking about my sexuality. So I admitted it to them and they flipped out. They screamed at me and told me they hated me and that god hates me and that when I turn 18 I am no longer their child. They couldn't understand that this wasnt a choice. Within the next week they had me signed up for conversion therapy at my church, which they basically told me every single time I went that being gay is wrong and I'll die if i stay gay and my favorite reasoning from them is that there is no such thing as a homosexual since everyone is born straight. After about the 3rd month of being in conversion therapy i decided that I need to pretend to be straight for them to lay off me and leave me alone. So I started slowly pretending i was straight. A little less than a month later one of the men from the church took me in their car and raped me. So I used that to my advantage. I told them that after that experience I realized that being gay isn't what I want. They ended up graduating me from conversion therapy after 5 months. So now I'm only out at school but at home im straight. I have about 2 years left before i can file for emancipation and I plan on doing that. The endless support ive gotten from school made this all worth it tho. If i could do it all over, I would come out the exact same way.