Let’s start with a revelation shall we?
I realised about a year ago that I fancied women. I’m still not sure if that means that I’m gay or bi, but that’s my thing to figure out.
Also, an ex boyfriend of way back of mine has told me that he figured out that he was bi and another friend is now gay.
Now, out of all of my friends, that isn’t really a huge number, (I’m talking facebook friends here, so not my close real life friends) but it’s still much more than I thought I’d have in my friends.
Anyway, I had a conversation with my parents a while back about how being gay has almost become a ‘fad’ thing that everyone feels they should be. Like all women are saying they’re bi to be trendy or something.
But I’m not so sure.
I think it’s just that people are feeling more accepted nowadays and so they’re much more likely to be open about who and what they are.
And I think that’s great.
I mean, there still are a few people out there who aren’t so happy about it, but there are always some residuals from something like this that’s been going on for so long.
My mum is still not too happy about it, though more because she’s worried about how much harder this could make my life and she doesn’t want anything bad to happen to me, which I suppose is fair.
But we’ve come a long way in such a short period of time and honestly, I think maybe it just seems like a lot of people are coming out nowadays because we don’t realise just how many people 1 in 10 (on average) really is. And the fact that celebrities are coming out also makes it a much bigger thing.
There are some cases, however, where girls are saying that they’re bi-curious, just to get some guys attention. Now, I’m sure it’s not many cases at all, but it can marr it for the rest. Just like one false rape claim can cause people to be much more sceptical about real rape cases which just makes it harder for them to be processes properly.
So basically, that should stop.
But I think overall the mass coming-outs are just because we’re all being much more accepting of people’s freedom to find out their sexuality.
And I think that’s an amazing thing.
Always Rebecca 
Congratulations on coming out! I can imagine it would be a very hard thing to do, especially with our parents! I agree though, it does seem to be increasingly common. It’s such a good thing that people feel more accepted.
Thank you. 🙂 It wasn’t actually as hard as I had built it up to be in my head. I was more worried about my mum than my dad, he wasn’t even that bothered by it.
Sorry, do I know you in real life? The ‘our parents’ comment seems to suggest that. 😛