Erika Geiger
17 Year Old CSDF Student, Fremont, CA
October 11, 2000


I have always knew that I was a bisexual person along with the 5 kids I enrolled to California School for the Deaf with in 6th grade, but we never really found a reason to announce my sexuality business to everyone.

From time to time some of them would come to me and ask me, if I still was "like that" and I would say "yeah... Your point is?" to just like yeah? So what? Until I got into this camp called Lions Camp, it was my 5th year for my going to that wilderness camp, I met this counselor who was a lesbain over time in the 6 days we were together, we finally found each other to talk about how I feel, how she felt before she came out and after we found each other, it was the two of us, wherever you saw me, you saw her, and vice versa, then when I came back to school, nothing changed, then in December she gave me a call and we talked about it more...

Counselor: So, why don't you just come out?
Erika: I don't know... Because I still like boys?
Counselor: Well then come out as a bisexual person?

And that converstation went on, and the more it went on, I was stuck in a corner. The next day when I came to school, I came out. And when people ask me when my best moment occured in my life, I would tell the hearing people six days after I was born, because that's when I became deaf. And I guess you could say that that story could be something that beats that story, and it is not only about telling everbody about who you are, but also about you feeling better, it's for you and not for them and how much information you give other people about yourself that should be what coming out of the colset is about. I think.



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