'I was so scared of what it actually meant to call yourself gay so even the first man I dated, I still thought that afterwards I was going to eventually meet a girl and get married because that's what men did,' he said. It took until age 21, even after dating someone for the coming out to occur. 'I grew up in an Armenian-American community and I grew up in a divorced family so I feel like I had to come out twice,' he said.

Ramzi's story was more complex than some.