David Coote Suspended

[Audrey Horne]

But the headline was about him coming out as gay, and the thumbnail photo was a picture of him crying.

Doesn't really sit well with me that. Kinda like it's portraying coming out as gay as depressing.

But it is depressing?

I can not tell you the amount of crying I did as i grew up confused and scared because i liked girls. I HATED myself. I willed myself to be 'normal'. I cried myself to sleep most nights.

I didnt come out to my family, as bisexual, till i was 20, because i was so scared to admit it to myself and i was scared to disappoint them.

This is our reality. Its sad and difficult and scary. Depending on where we were born, it can be a death penalty.

Him crying is likely the release of emotion at finally being honest to himself and others. When i came out to my family, i cried in bed for 2 days, even though they were very supportive.

I am unsure if people who are straight, realise the absolute range of emotions throughout our childhood, our teens, young adult and adult. It is constant as well.... meet new person, in my head thinking, if i mention my girlfriend, do i say my partner so they dont know ... or just say 'she' so they know. What if they are homophobic, what if they dont want to work with me anymore etc etc

It is exhausting.

[TheRam]

Is that what’s happening here though?

Feels like he’s going to the sun to stop them releasing more stuff on him.

Hard to have any sympathy for him colluding with that newspaper and who knows what else was going to come out.

[Escalator]

Is that what’s happening here though?

Feels like he’s going to the sun to stop them releasing more stuff on him.

Hard to have any sympathy for him colluding with that newspaper and who knows what else was going to come out.

If the Sun have more stuff on him they would release it anyway, you can’t make a deal with the devil.

[TheRam]

If the Sun have more stuff on him they would release it anyway, you can’t make a deal with the devil.

They wouldn’t. This happens all the time.

[Deano Blue Boy]

But it is depressing?

I can not tell you the amount of crying I did as i grew up confused and scared because i liked girls. I HATED myself. I willed myself to be 'normal'. I cried myself to sleep most nights.

I didnt come out to my family, as bisexual, till i was 20, because i was so scared to admit it to myself and i was scared to disappoint them.

This is our reality. Its sad and difficult and scary. Depending on where we were born, it can be a death penalty.

Him crying is likely the release of emotion at finally being honest to himself and others. When i came out to my family, i cried in bed for 2 days, even though they were very supportive.

I am unsure if people who are straight, realise the absolute range of emotions throughout our childhood, our teens, young adult and adult. It is constant as well.... meet new person, in my head thinking, if i mention my girlfriend, do i say my partner so they dont know ... or just say 'she' so they know. What if they are homophobic, what if they dont want to work with me anymore etc etc

It is exhausting.

I appreciate everything you must have gone through.

But how the media puts images across is really important.

It'll be great if they attempted to change the narrative and show him happy and proud to come out. So little girls and boys see it, and get inspiration that it can be a happy and proud thing to do.

[Silas]

Bs nice if this wasn't something that needed to be a thing but the reality is we are so far aware from that still. Coming out is a unique individual experience, I know people who have had positive experiences but many who haven't. Make no bones about it though the media can do better with this and many other cases