My parents think im gay but im not
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Congratulations on coming out! It can take a lot of nerve because, as your case shows, it's hard to predict how people will react. Many people grow up entity told implicitly or explicitly that they're straight and that's the “right” way to be. There are plenty of people who also assume that almost everyone else is linear, too — except maybe that really flame-y hairdresser or the butch female who's a car mechanic. But those are stereotypes, and the reality is that you can't explain if someone is heterosexual or not just by looking. In that equal way, plenty of parents may also assume their kids are straight, but that assumption can be wrong! It sounds love your parents need a little Sexuality
Even though being bisexual has been a part of who you are for a while now, your announcement may seem to reach out of the cerulean for your parents. Your parents could probably apply some help understanding the possible reasons you didn't tell them about your sexuality earlier. Many people who identify as female homosexual, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer/questioning (LGBTQ) may come across it confusing that their feelings aren’t in line wit
My Family Cannot Accept That I Am Gay
I told my mum I was gay when I was 16 and her reaction was “Don’t tell your dad”. I was really surprised; I honestly consideration she might already suspect and be fine with it. I told Dad a year later and, not knowing I’d already told Mum, he said ‘It’ll kill her”. For me; it was a relief to get things in the open, but for months afterwards, it was as if someone had died. I felt really guilty – no one wants to damage their parents. But the worst reaction was my sister’s. She said it was disgusting.
I am now 33 and living with my partner, I assume my parents are okay with this and like him, but we’ve not had a free conversation about it. My sister’s getting married this year, and there’s been no mention of my partner of three years being invited. My parents haven’t protested or even mentioned this. I don’t want to not leave, but I feel disloyal to him, and to myself in a way, if I go without him. In the drawn-out term I think ‘what does it matter?’ But on the other hand I also think the tension between me and my family may never go. Calum, Borough
There is an anti-homophobia poster in many public places saying, “Some people are gay, earn over
Coming Out to Your Parents
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'I'm 26 and my family doesn't know I'm gay'
'I am gay.' Three words I can say to myself without hesitation, and when written down come across so simple. But when given voice in certain situations they suddenly develop weighty, charged and actual. I'm a few years shy of 30 and I am yet to come out to my family.
But only to my family. To friends and colleagues and in actual fact anybody else I meet that isn't directly related to them, I am completely myself. I am a gay man.
Undoubtedly so. In some respects I've always known, (I was 8 or 9 when I requested an equestrian doll set for Christmas. Female rider, of course), but it was at the age of 14 when I made a resolute decision about myself.
My secondary school trial was a largely positive one, which I am very grateful for as it made the process of coming to terms with being gay a very natural one.
Having been at school in the early 00s, it had become a more usual occurrence for a young man in the upper years to come out. Even one of our Leader Boys was openly gay.
That's not to say that growing up in this way was without upset and hardship, but anyone's opinions outside of my circles didn't matter to me then. I imagine this was
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