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how to tell your parents you're gay

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    #32
    DeVore
    Business & Finance Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 32,387 Mod ✭✭✭✭DeVore


    Congrats, and fair fvcks to you (oi! leeeeeave it!) :)

    I'm honestly impressed by the courage that some gay people I know display, it takes a moral backbone to stand up and say "this is what I am and I'm happy about that".

    I dont think that makes people who DONT want to tell their relatives or friends that they are gay, cowards. Some people feel a really strong need to tell others something like that. For other people they want to keep it personal and dont see it as anyone elses business.



    *evil grin*
    So now that you are out to your parents, why not post under you're real account!


    DeV.


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    #33
    DeVore
    Business & Finance Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 32,387 Mod ✭✭✭✭DeVore


    btw, obviously I'm just being an evil cnnt :)


    DeV.


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    #34
    yellum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,025 ✭✭✭yellum


    That was me :)


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    #35
    ozpass
    Closed Accounts Posts: 931 ✭✭✭ozpass


    Good work fella,

    I remember when my brother finally worked up the courage to tell us all he was gay. We were all like "Thank God for that!"- he went from moody stress-head to his old self in the space of 20 minutes. Our only regret was that he hadn't felt comfortable enough to tell us all sooner.:)


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    #36
    Talliesin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,314 ✭✭✭Talliesin


    True story:

    Me: Mum, there's something I have to tell you.

    Mum (misinterpretting tone in voice): OMG! You've gotten someone pregnant!

    Me: No, I'm bisexual.

    Mum: And you haven't gotten anyone pregnant?

    Me: No. (This was particularly unlikely at the time, for reasons that can probably be guessed).

    Mum: Thank ****!

    About 3 days later she got over the shock of thinking I'd gotten someone pregnant and became breifly concerned about the whole coming-out thing, but it had had some time to sink in.


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    #37
    leeroybrown
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,563 ✭✭✭leeroybrown


    Classic!


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    #38
    alanbrett
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1 ✭alanbrett


    Parents Support, a peer support network for parents who've discovered a child is gay have produced a really good booklet for parents... they also provide one-to-one telephone support
    I wish I'd known about them when I came out first...

    Details from any gayswitchboard

    Some parents (mine included) take a long time to get used to it, and it's been compared to 'grieving' in the worst cases...


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    #39
    yellum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,025 ✭✭✭yellum


    Good one alan, I'll make a Gay Resources sticky and add that to it.


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