Me and another guy came out of the closet around the same time.
He got a lot more shit for it than I did, though. I actually had people apologize for previously calling me queer, faggot, etc. Except for one instance of me getting punched in the face, the other guy had it way worse.
Where do you live? Sounds like a pretty backwards town to me.
One of the computer lab monitors who was also who had the presidential scholarship(full tuition ride, etc) was caught stealing titan black video cards from the computers after hours and selling them.