Happy National Coming Out Day!

Today is National Coming Out Day, and I wanted to share my coming out story with The Locher Room community.

I met one of my first gay friends in high school—Jorge! Yes, we both knew we were different, or at least that we liked boys. I’m not sure if I fully understood what being gay meant at the time, but the feelings were there. I was two years older than Jorge and went off to college first. We lost touch during those four years, but in a random twist of fate, someone I met in college had also met Jorge and invited me to my first gay bar, where we reconnected. We've been best friends ever since—over 34 years now! We even stood up as best men at each other's weddings, something we couldn’t have imagined back in high school.