"OH SHIT!" Moments

An Oh Shit Moment is defined as, 

"The moment or moments,  you realize or come to terms with the fact that you might be queer, gay, or in anyway part of the LGBTQQIA+ community."

--My friend Stevie

A couple of my friends and I were at the beach the other day, sitting in the sand, and my Stevie asks, 

"Hey, what are y'alls 'OH SHIT' moments?"

Of course all of us burst out laughing, but we knew we had to share our oh shit moments. 

The moments we knew we were a little different. 

That we were special. 

Maybe moments that scared us.

 That excited us. 

Moments that we look back on and see how much we've grown and changed.

Anyways, 

Here's a couple of OH SHIT moments for you :)

(All of these moments have been brought to you, word to word from the source)

Hey there I'm Asher!

 I use he/him or they/them pronouns. 
I'm panromantic, agender, asexual and a whole lotta fabulous!

Soooo I have a few oh shit moments but I'm just going to focus one one. My first ever oh shit moment and the start of my journey into queerdom was in third grade. My best friend and I had this thing called talk time where we would go to the be during class and chill. So one day we're in the bathroom and I tell her that I have a crush on someone (a third grade crush, pretty serious stuff y'all). Of course being 3rd grade me I wouldn't say it out loud, because it was her! She goes through a list of names and finally says "wait... Do you have a crush on me?!" I didn't even say yes I just awkwardly giggled and nodded. So long story short I ended up having my first queer relationship in 3rd grade with my best friend. Adorable right? I know, I do that well.

Name: Elliot Gray Boodhan

Pronouns: He/Him/His and They/Them/Theirs
Identification: Asexual&Panromantic
Transmasculine/Genderqueer
Oh Shit Moment: When I was in kindergarden I remember always hating my name. I was never into the things that society said I was supposed to be into as a "girl" either. In fact, I considered myself a tomboy because of the things I liked being things that boys my age liked. My eldest sister once heard me say I was a tomboy, and laughed at me and said "No you aren't. You don't even know what a tomboy really is." This statement confused me until I was 10. I was at an age where I was flooding my brain with the cultures and languages of so many other countries. I was particularly interested in Thai culture, so I'd been learning the language and slang. I was watching an LGBT themed movie from Thailand, and one of the characters was called a "Tom". Off to the side of the screen was the word "Tom*" and what it meant. It was short for tomboy. The meaning of the word tomboy orignially was a female born person who's gender didn't conform to their sex assigned at birth, and it was noted that they typically had female lovers. The moment I read that I understood what my sister had meant, and I realized that it fit me. Knowing the definition made me realize that everything I had been feeling about my name and, after hitting puberty at age 7, my body was because I wasn't identifying as female. I was kinda just like, "Well shit, it all makes sense now."

Name:Kayla

Pronouns: they/them

Identity: gender queer/pansexual

Oh shit moment:

I was always subconsciously attracted to my best friend from when I was three. But this one time we were a little older, between 7-12, and we were swimming in her pool. I noticed that I was focusing more on her in her bathing suit than I was on swimming, and at some point my bikini top had come undone. So I asked her to help me tie again. And when she was tying it she'd accidentally brushed against my chest and I got the weirdest shiver, and I couldn't get rid of the feeling till she moved away from me. And that's when I was like "holy shit I like when girls touch me. That's definitely not straight."

Name: Kimberly

Pronouns: she/hers they/them

School: Snowden high school
Identity: Pansexual

Oh shit moment:

One oh shit moment is when I found myself staring at my brothers girlfriends boobs they looked so nice 😍😍😍

This next friend is from California :D

Name: Elsa Sandbach

Pronouns:She/Her

School: Santa Catalina School

Identification: Lesbian

Oh Shit Moment: There was a girl in my class who used to come into my room (I go to boarding school) initially to talk to my roommate and eventually to discuss her problems with me. She spent most of the days she was in my room talking about questioning her sexuality and how maybe she was bisexual. Up until this point I hadn’t even considered bisexuality as an option. Eventually I began to realize that, wow I have a big-ass crush on this girl I’m probably less than entirely heterosexual… And I sat myself down and emailed my parents, “I think I’m bisexual.” And about a week later, “I’m definitely a lesbian.”

My oh shit moment was really more specifically when she got in my bed and snuggled with me one day and I kind of lay there like holy fuck I want to kiss her. Which scared me but eventually I did and it worked out nicely.

Name: Kiana Solivera
Pronouns: She, They

Identification: Bisexual
(Names of other people in the story will be change)
 One Of my 'OH SHIT!' moments was when i was younger and would get home after hanging out with a group of friend my cousins would tease me about Justin being  my boyfriend....my response one day was "I like him but i would perfer Jenna to be my girlfriend."

 Name: Katraya Wier
Pronouns: She
School: AMDA NY
Identity: Pansexual/Agender
Oh shit moment : 

Sexuality- I was in 3rd grade and my two girls were walking in front of me and I started checking them out and one of them noticed and turned around and was like "are you a lesbian" and I was like "what does that mean" and she said "it means you wanna kiss girls" and I was like "oh, um I don't know" but in my head I was like 'there's a name for that?!'
Gender- Okay so my Senior year of High school I took journalism and I wrote a bunch of articles about feminism and the stereotypes around femininity and masculinity and the more I tried to discover what masculine and feminine meant outside of societal BS the more I realized I that I didn't identify with either

And here is a special surprise, its me :D

Name: Kyle or Ky
Pronouns: He/him, They/them, Xe/xem, Feel free to mix it up!
School: Lesley University

Identity: Queer as fuck. But if you really wanna know the specifics:

Transgender

Panromantic and Pansexual

Polyamorous as fuck.

Gender Fluid or Non Binary maybe?? Gender fluid for sure.
Oh shit Moment:
One of my oh shit moments is when I kissed my best friend when I was five. She was my first kiss. 

Her name was Carol. 

You rock Carol.