My Big Night Out ^_^
Ok so it wasn't really that big, we just went to a pub for a few hours, but it was still a big thing for me. I've been out dressed a few times, once where I pretended it was a bet, once for Halloween and a couple of times where I've met up with a fellow crossdresser who doesn't live that far away, but until last night I had never just gone and had a night out with some friends. It was so liberating to come home from a boring lecture at university and then get all dressed up ready for a night out ^_^
I should first mention that I recently came out to my house mates and their other halves and they have all been fantastic about it and have already seen my dressed loads of times in the last few weeks. I have also come out to two close friends since then (one of whom I've known longer than anyone except for my SO) and they've been equally as great about it. Not all of the people I've recently come out to could come unfortunately due to illness, distance, work etc but there was still two of my housemates (one girl and one guy) the boyfriend of the girl, and another GG friend of mine.
The pub we went to is the only gay pub in our whole town (and we live in a pretty big town, it's like a small city) and as none of us had ever been there or too a gay pub before we weren't really sure what to expect, but we loved it. It was a really funky place with it's own individuality, the drinks were really good (they sold slush puppy cocktails 0_0) and it had a great atmosphere.
My friends were all really great to me as well, one let me borrow one of her coats for the night as I don't have any yet and they were all referring to me as Ria (well most of the time, they are still new to this world but I love them for trying) and I even got to use the girls toilet. And on top of that I made two new friends. One of them is actually someone I have met a couple of times before as she used to work as a barmaid at my uni, heads up the uni's LGBT group and is a warden with one of the girls I went with, and she didn't recognize me at all (although she still didn't know who I was after I told her anyway) and a friend of hers who is doing masters at the same uni as all of us that we hadn't met before. Both of them were great to me and we got on really well, and they even expressed quite openly about how jealous they were of my legs and nail polish and lipstick and how much they loved my dress, which was a little bit embarrassing for me but was also extremely flattering. One in particular really made a point of saying she felt I looked a lot better in a dress than she did, even though she had a great body herself. At the end of the night I even went to the pizza place with the two friends that had managed to stay for the whole night.
I can't believe how far I've come in a such a short space of time. The amount of fear regarding what others might think or do compared to a complete lack of that fear I have now is amazing. I can't wait till the next time I get to go out ^_^
Originally Posted by MarcellaMcNul
