'I read the book and I'm still gay': Man recalls how he accidentally came out to his ultra conservative college roommates via voicemail from the bookstore

 Kevin Thornton, an online personality and an Internet comedian, recently shared a story from his youth that is absolutely cringeworthy. For context, Kevin was an 18 year old college kid who was struggling with his sexuality at the time. Since he grew up in an extremely conservative home and was a student at a strict Christian college, he did what any kid would do and he tried to do some research because it probably would have made his life easier in that community if he weren't gay. 

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He had heard about a book that was supposed to teach you how not to be gay and it was called, “Coming Out of Homosexuality”, which almost sounds like a spoof, but again, it was the 90's and that's just how people talked. With high hopes, he went to the store to buy the book and give this whole shebang a shot. 

Kevin went to the local Christian bookstore on campus and ordered the book (since they didn't have a physical copy) and they said that they would mail the book to his home address. However, that's where are story really begins because Kevin lived in a house with a large number of other guys. This dude ranch house was full of conservative fundamentalists who, quite frankly, intimidated the heckin' heckity heck out of him. So, being gay, he was pretty much automatically in a camp set against their values and beliefs. Oof.

Weeks after he'd ordered the book, Kevin came home to a house full of his college roommates all gathered in the kitchen chatting. Remember that answering machine schpiel from before? Well, here it comes. One of his house mates clicked the ‘play’ button to start the waiting voicemails on the machine to play for all to hear. 

The bookstore called to tell him that his book had been shipped to their store and that he can come pick it up anytime. However, the clincher is that they included the TITLE of the book, so all of his roommates heard his deepest darkest business that he was still hiding at the time. The answering machine fast tracked Kevin's coming out party. 

Everyone froze and did what anyone would do if they were super uncomfortable and trying to make an embarrassing moment pass quickly— they avoided eye contact and pretended it never happened. What's funny is that nobody ever talked about it, they moved on with their lives, and Kevin is left with a hilarious, ridiculous sitcom-level embarrassment story. The book however, did not work. It turns out, Kevin is still gay. 

Oh and by the way, the entire video is recounted in song.