Does your family know that you are gay?

All of my family knows. It's kind of awkward, but they're completely fine with it.

 

I don't think i could ever tell any of my family that I'm bi. I'm not anywhere near decent terms with my parents. No one in my family is gay/lesbian/bi/trans. They are just, I don't even know. I couldn't do it and I'm perfectly fine with it. My friends are my realy family, they are what get me through and I told them, with no problem.

 

I've told both of my parents before through a Psychologist, and my dad didn't really care. He was the exact opposite of the statistic. Since then my dad has started going slightly senile, so I think he has forgotten already.

My mom is rather conservative, since she goes to a Fundie sort of church. She had people preaching to me about it being a sin and even my uncle joined in with his opinion about it's wrongness. Since then she has tried to get me to hook up with women, but I blatantly refuse every time.

My one brother knows and I think my other brother knows, and they don't seem to care. My sister-in-law actually likes the fact that I am gay, because now she has a male friend to take out partying with her girl friends. I have a gay cousin who is much older than me, and I think we are both relieved to have met a fellow family member who's gay.

As for the rest of my family, I don't think I will bother to ever tell any of them. While the people on my dad's side are open-minded, and that's where my cousin is from, I wouldn't care to find out how they'd react. And I definitely won't tell anyone on my mom's side of the family. Most of them are narrow-minded and wouldn't take it well. I'd be happier if no one knew. I'd rather keep to myself anyway.

 

sometimes i'm givin some clues to my family like starting conversation about all that stuff and once they've said that they're fine with all that gay stuff as long as it doesn't appear in our family... well... it sucks

 

Imagine if someones parents said
"WHAT!!!! _ YOURE GAY!!! - Oh No ! Next you'll be telling us Liberace was gay too !"

Liberace

 

hahaha

 

My two younger siblings know that I'm bi and poly....they don't have a problem with it. I explained the poly part to my mom, which she doesn't agree with, so we aren't getting into the rest of it.

 

My neighbor Lynne is SOOOO homophobic, she asked me tonight if I thought her son (who hangs out with a guy who is gay but doesn't know it) was gay and into him. She's really worried, which is so stupid. Even if he was what difference would it make? And when it comes to my sexuality she just thinks its a phase. One of these days I'm going to bring home a girl and she's going to have a poopy in her pants.

 

You Go Moonlight !!! hahaha

 

My direct family knows, and is pretty fine about it, though sometimes awkward. Some of my extended family knows... actually basically just a few cousins. I don't really care if the rest of my family knows. My grandparents are the only one's I'd be slightly worried about. Actually, at Thanksgiving, my two female cousins and my grandma were talking about some sort of fashion thing, and my grandma asked me because I "look at girls" and whatnot. Rachel and I exchanged looks and I just didn't answer. Quite amusing.

 

maybe because I don't have kids and/or I'm gay, but I feel parents should love their kids uncondtionally. so what they're gay, they are still YOUR children and should love and care about them.

((HUGS TO ALL ))

peace,
bob

 

there is only certain people that know and the reason for that is i do not want to tear my family apart.....but most of my friends know.....actually i think all of them do

 

Mom, Dad ! Ive Got Something To Tell You !



DOH !! WHO WOULDA THUNK IT, SON?

 

Most of my close friends know, but I doubt I'd ever be able to come out to my parents. They're extremely close minded and I'd definitely be shunned. If I ever did come out to them, it would probably be once I've moved out and have my own place.

 

Wow my mum is exactly like that. She suspects I'm gay, even if not even a year ago she was calling me a slut for sitting on a guy's lap. I was crying once...and she came up to me and started yelling at me saying that I have a 'problem' because I hugged my best friend(a girl, who I was actually dating at the time) too much & that I was 'too attached to her'. I never brought guys home because my mum didn't let me bring them home...even friends to visit. Even if they were a friend's boyfriend & the friend was there.

 

My dad doesn't know, I haven't gotten around to talking to him about it as my parents are divorced and even if I visit my dad regularly we're not very close. I guess he wouldn't be thrilled, but not desperate either, he'll probably be most disappointed about being the last one to know ... but I don't know, I just can't seem to bring myself to tell him, there are hardly any opportunities and it all would just feel so weird.

My mum knows and is absolutely fine with it. She likes my girlfriend, encourages me to wear my "reserved for girls"-t-shirt, jokes about it and is generally very cool. Then again, my mum is mostly cool with lots of things. ^^

My extended family on my mum's side probably wouldn't mind if they knew.
As for my dad's side, I brought my girlfriend along to the last family meeting and we got some really weird looks, my grandparents just didn't get it ("So, are you friends from school?"), sometimes the atmosphere was a bit strange, you could tell some people just didn't know what to say but generally speaking it went very ok, no really bad reactions. When my gf and me where reading a book to my little cousins my great-aunt even smiled and said: "That's fine, you should practice for when you have your own kids" which was funny in a way but at the same time a good feeling because it was exactly what she would have said if my gf would have been a boy.

So, not all families react horribly.

 

That is so cool....I am so verry glad things are going so well for you Baby sister !!

 

Most parents will be upset by ANY type of teenage sexual disclosure.
Teenagers are still viewed as babys by the parents.

This is a benchmark to judge your specific situation.

:smartass:

 

Not so...I raised 4...and they knew they could talk to me about anything because I saw them as PEOPLE...with their own personalities...their own natural desires...I knew when they began having sex...we talked about how to be safe..and birth controll...and My daughter didnt have kids till she was married...my sons have no children other than Davids..with his wife to be...and my youngest has had relationships that have lasted 4 years..and he is only 20....the key is seeing your kids as people...not a reflection of yourself....and talking ...and hearing them.

 

Oh...my youngest son is also Bi....and he wasnt afraid to tell me