LGBTers - How did you come out?

[Swedish Rainbow Capitalist Cheese]

I never had a single big coming out occasion, it happened gradually over several years with different people.

The first person I told was my closest childhood friend, during summer break while we were out walking in the woods just outside my hometown. I was 14 at the time and just sort of decided to tell her, since I knew she was one of few kids in our school who was supportive of gay people. Then during high school I came out to a few other friends, my siblings and my mum. When I started University I decided I'd be completely open with all the new friends I made there. 

The last person I had a real coming out to was my dad five years ago. Since my parents have been divorced since I was 7, he didn't find out at the same time as the rest of the family. He's a socially conservative person and used to be quite prone to homophobia and I've had a strained relationship with him growing up, so he was the hardest one to tell. But at the time me and my current boyfriend was starting to get serious and I wanted to start bringing him home to family gatherings so there was no keeping it from my dad forever.

He was driving me to the train station after I'd been home on a visit and I told him that I'd met someone who I was planning to bring to my brother's birthday party and that it was a guy. To my big surprise, he took it quite well and didn't seem particularity surprised (he might have had his suspicions), but told me it was important that I didn't allow the relationship to derail my studies and a future career.

All in all, it was a 9 year long process, but I've been very lucky in that not a single person has had a problem with it.