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That lasted until I could no blacker deny that I had this deep unexplored desire to be with the same-sex. Find a Black Pride near you. In an effort to shed light on the bright and dark sides of being true to yourself about being attracted to the same sex, LEVEL spoke with eight queer men of color to share their coming out journey.

Most people were accepting and loving. The official Black LGBTQA+ Pride Celebrations around the world are an alternative to the largely white mainstream LGBTQ+ movement. I was closeted into my 20s, until my girlfriend coaxed me into accepting the part of me that liked men.

It was like a weight lifted off my shoulders. I was only five years old, but I will never forget that feeling. I knew I wanted to marry a guy when I met my straight high school crush. Everyone in my life at that time knew I was gay except my family.

That is unless your coming-of-age era coincides with internal struggles around coming out, which opens up a whole new set of emotional challenges. Most of my family did great with hearing the truth about my sexuality.

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I owe a ton to her when it comes to shedding internalized homophobia and gathering the courage to come out. He became one of my best friends and the first person I ever actually came out to. I had to do some soul-searching to figure out who I was in terms of my sexuality.

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My gay is an alpha male and needed some time to process the news. I used to walk around the hallway like a little baddie when he came to pick me up from my locker to show me around the school. Neither one of us were out but we were hanging out at his house and wrestling around like teenagers do.

While in college, I eventually told various family members in stages until I was completely free and open. One thing led to another and we started fooling around. In fact, I ended up in a relationship with my female best friend at the time. You have to decide when and how to come out to the various circles in your life—school, family, friends, workplace, etc.

He was the running back on our school's football team. The best part was feeling free and no longer holding in a secret. At the time, he saw homosexuality and masculinity as mutually exclusive, and he esteemed masculinity so much that any threat to that concept was repulsive to him.

The next morning he asked if [me being gay] was [his fault].