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10 Teenagers on Love, Simon and What It’s Actually Like to Come Out in 2018

“Anyone who says a movie like this isn’t important is so out of touch, because I’ve had three friends come out to me since seeing it.”

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“Walking out of the movie, my mom understood me so much better”

Drew, 16, Missouri, gay:
Unfortunately, Love, Simon isn’t showing in my town — we had to drive an hour away to see it. And I was lucky enough to see it with my mom. Walking out of the movie she understood me so much better than walking in. We talked the whole drive home — like, about what it was like to want someone and how hard it is because you don’t know who’s gay and who’s not, and how hard it is to come out in the first place and how lonely it can be, and how once you do it it feels so much better.
I began to come out in October of last year to my closest friends, and then I came out to my parents. Before seeing Love, Simon I didn’t really feel the need to say “I’m gay” to the whole world, because people either assumed or they knew. But after seeing that movie I felt so proud of who I was that it was nothing to be ashamed of, so I tweeted it, and I got entirely positive responses. People I wasn’t friends with reached out to me saying I’m proud of you, and a lot of random people DM’d me saying I was an inspiration to them, and it made my heart so happy.

“If my parents watch Modern Family, they can’t be completely disgusted” —

Emily, Oklahoma, bisexual, 19:
I can very specifically remember the moment I was first like Oh man, I think I’m gay, and the first person I thought of was Mitch on Modern Family. My family grew up watching that, so I was like: Okay, if my parents watch Modern Family then they can’t be completely disgusted. I originally came out to friends in my sophomore year of high school. I just came out to my family last month. It was a little more intimidating to come out to my parents, because I was fully aware that I could be disowned or I might not be able to go home again, which made it a lot more high stakes. Their reaction was positive, though it took some coming around to.
I’m in college now, but my hometown was always kind of not a very accepting or open place, because it’s a small, very religious town in the Bible Belt. The attitude is like: Don’t talk about it. In Oklahoma we have these things called “no promo homo” laws, which are basically like teachers and educators aren’t allowed to talk about homosexuality positively, and you can’t talk about same-sex relationships in sex ed or education classes.
Anyone who says a movie like this isn’t important is so out of touch. I’ve had three friends come out to me since seeing it. I’ve personally seen it five times. The moment where his mom is talking to him and is like, You can exhale now, I was sobbing like a child — that was my favorite part of the movie. If someone had told me that when I was in high school it could have changed my world.