Powerful Shares: I'm Here To Connect
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Powerful Shares: I'm Here To Connect
Coming Out as Gay & Accepting It
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Melissa Busfield
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Season 1
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Episode 12
This episode features two stories with vastly different journeys coming out as gay in the early 2000s. Caylie, from a small religious town in Texas, shares how she found acceptance and put her gayness straight into action while me, Melissa, I share how I was full of self-hate and turned to harmful dangerous coping mechanisms to survive. We discuss the fear of coming out, the necessity of feeling accepted, and although the LGBTQ+ community has become more mainstream over the decades we still have a long way to go.