Coming Out to Myself - 14 Years Later

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  • เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 ก.พ. 2025
  • It's LGBT+ History Month, and October 11th is #NationalComingOutDay. After pondering this video idea for a few years, now felt like the right time to relive my first #comingout - by re-reading the journal entry I wrote at 19 on a raw, tragic night in 2006. I hadn't looked at these words in 14 years. T'was the night I came out to myself and to God: a same-sex attracted or gay or queer Christian. Soon after this, I'd come out to my parents too.
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ความคิดเห็น • 17

  • @fojo1184
    @fojo1184 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Thanks for sharing Tom! Love seeing God's faithfulness play out in your life all these years :)

  • @jerandzanes3455
    @jerandzanes3455 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The loss of a beloved pet is so painful. I feel your pain as I have been there with one of my dogs.

    • @thomasmarkz
      @thomasmarkz  4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Aw, I'm sorry to hear that. It's so rough. I didn't say much about it in this video, but I was also a pretty lonely kid with few friends. Certainly none that knew about my sexuality at the time. So losing Annie amidst all that loneliness and isolation was deeply wounding. Took me a while to come out of that brutality.

  • @فنكجَلِيدٍ
    @فنكجَلِيدٍ 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The "these stupid democrats!" entry made me chuckle.

  • @courtneychupp8427
    @courtneychupp8427 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanx for sharing man I came out as GAY God made me this year!! I came from the Conservitive Mennonite!!

  • @nate8932
    @nate8932 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    as a "person faith" i acrually ended up leaving the church lol. There was too much of a disparity between what i believed and reality. Scripture doesn't dictate reality, it explains it and when its explanations are wrong it loses its authority to dictate how a person should live or react to reality

  • @pepperco100
    @pepperco100 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I am puzzled by those who say that they didn't realize their homosexuality until well into adulthood. Did they, for years or decades, fantasize about the opposite sex whenever they practiced onanism?

    • @thomasmarkz
      @thomasmarkz  4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Can't speak for them certainly, but I'll say this about my first 19 years...it's more than tempting to shove aside something you don't want to see.

  • @anthonyzestley3980
    @anthonyzestley3980 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Keep looking to the Lord Jesus 🙏

  • @isaachaynes1832
    @isaachaynes1832 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    You mentioned your are an enneagram 4, do you know your myers briggs?

    • @thomasmarkz
      @thomasmarkz  4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yeah! I'm an INFJ.

    • @isaachaynes1832
      @isaachaynes1832 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@thomasmarkz That makes a lot of sense, actually

    • @ChanceyS388
      @ChanceyS388 ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@thomasmarkzI'm an infj too

  • @Garv_Sachdeva0
    @Garv_Sachdeva0 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Hey

  • @bobbyserrato1949
    @bobbyserrato1949 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I'm a 64 year old gay male who came out n 1975....I was liberated..never, ever had a second thought...came out and n the gay scene n tulsa, ok at a dive/awesome neighborhood gay bar call..friends lounge..anyone out there ever go..we were a blazing trails gay group..we were fearless in t town.. hallaluyah 🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈
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    • @ChanceyS388
      @ChanceyS388 ปีที่แล้ว

      That's so not true. People like you lead people astray.