Girls (and Boys Sharing Their Coming-Out 'Glo Ups'
In the tweet below, 17-year-old Caitlin Crowley appears on the left with a boy Dylan at a Freshman year dance, and then on the right with her current girlfriend Kirrin Chew, a girl she met at a college prep program a few years ago. She posted the photo to Twitter with the caption, "Freshman to senior year, does this count as a glo up???" and it quickly went viral, with almost 35,000 retweets and over 130,000 likes.
Caitlin told BuzzFeed she and Kirrin have only been "completely out of the closet" for six months, but they've been dating for a year now. She said they've received an overwhelming "outpour of love" from friends and family, and also from the internet. Because of that, her post inspired a bunch of adorable copy cats and I love the internet sometimes.