How Did You Come Out to Your Parents?
I think as LGBT people, coming out to our parents is about the scariest thing we can ever do. We don't know how they're going to react and we fear we will somehow lose their favor.
Parents can surprise us. We may expect them to take it badly, but instead they throw open their arms in an embrace. Or we might expect them to just be fine with it, since they always taught us to respect differences in others. But then they freak out about us.
There is no one formula for how to come out to your parents, but we can learn from each other.
Twenty-two year old "PsycheDyke" came out when her mother confronted her and asked her if she was gay. She shared her story with us.
How about you? How did you come out to your parents? Share your story so that it may help others.
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I came out to my mom a week ago and shes cool about i still dont know how to tell my dad and brother though
I was 25,my family was getting togther for the weekend in Austin TX and my girlfriend stayed home ( Tucson AZ ) well as the first night of all of us together (10 all together) the drinks were going down real well and I just had it with all the gay jokes and whatever thay wanted to say about gay people, that I just came out and yelled that I was gay and that I didn’t want to hear about how thay could not deal with gay people and it turned into a mess I didn’t remember very much after that. Not the best way to come out but I was out. To this day there is some in my family that just can’t except it but Iam who Iam and thay have to deal with it. I still put my pants on the sameway thay do(if u know what I mean) We have come along way,we are everywere and can be anyone.