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Growing up Gay
I have always wondered why I never had any problems with my sexual orientation. When I was about 8 years old I started noticing that i was different. At first I didn't pay much attention really. I thought girls had cooties and didn't want much to do with them. During recess my routine was playing soccer or whatever game was being played. I did boy things and always hung around my guy friends. But one day I over heard my aunts talking about how they think I was going to be gay. I had a vague ideas as to what gay meant but did not fully understand what that meant. So me being me walked into the middle of them and asked why they were saying that. They told me it was because I was showing gay tendencies. Which in short was for the way I talked. Which now being older I still don't like to hear myself talk on a recording or video. But back to my point, I knew I was different and when I was around 11 years old i had figured out I liked guys. I was just starting out in middle school around this time. Now growing up with my family was like any other family for the most part. My mom and dad split when i was still in diapers so I did not get to meet my mother until much later in life. My dad and grandma raised me for the majority of my childhood. I had a few stepmoms throughout the years but naturally they never stayed long. The main reason for that was my dad liked the sauce a little too much. His choice was whisky or Bud Light.
By John Barlow4 years ago in Pride
Stephen King vs J.K. Rowling
Much like what I’ve said about hot button issues with well-known people, everything I have to say here is my own personal opinion based on information available online. I don’t know any of the parties mentioned, nor do I have any first-hand knowledge about this situation.
By Chloe Medeiros4 years ago in Pride
The Curse: A Love Story
Nobody calls their bank because they’re having a good day. This was the chief reason that I hated my job as much as I did. Eight hours each day, Monday through Friday, is a lot of time out of one’s life to be screamed at by irate clients who somehow had the idea that I possessed enough power to undo their late fees and bounced checks. And it was one of the reasons why, on the morning I first heard your voice, I was so startled by it.
By Sophie Colette4 years ago in Pride
In Which the Mother of a Queer Person Continues to Fail at Irony
My mom’s homophobic, even if she doesn’t realize it. But not…like…a Homophobe, you know what I mean? She’s a “love the sinner, hate the sin” homophobe. A “marriage is between man and a woman, but if they want a civil union, that’s okay” homophobe. A “I use my one lesbian friend as a rhetorical shield for my weird takes on queerness” homophobe. Someone who I genuinely don’t think harbors active malice toward the LGBTQIA+ community, but genuinely struggles, intellectually, with how gay people fit into the “order” of her universe. And while this obviously isn’t good, it’s at least fixable long term. There’s a chance for some reprogramming. Of the various, increasingly cumbersome conversations we rehash regarding progressive issues, there’s one that we always drift back to. I call it the “I liked it until it was gay, but I won’t admit it” conversation.
By Ashe Thurman4 years ago in Pride
This is the best one so far
In this video this lovely young boy told his father he was gay. I have seen many videos where the parents blow up at their child, yet again kick them out of the house. The father in video did everything in my opinion the right way. He asked non threatening questions like are you sure? When that was confirmed he sits on the bed next to his son and starts talking to him. He does as a father giving advice to his young son, while showing his son he loves and supports him. This is lovely and just what this boy needed at that time. You could tell he was nervous and even backed himself into a little corner.
By Lawrence Edward Hinchee4 years ago in Pride
The Start of it All
Recently I've been starting the arduous task of self repair. Over the last year, the amount of trauma and growth I've made would cause anyone to double over in a depressive gut punch. Not to toot my own horn (not that anyone would ever want to deal with this shit), but I've experience a pandemic, leaving and abusive asshole husband, became a single mom, left a cult, came out of the closet, and managed to not do the unalive thing. Yeah you read all of that right. That was my 2020-2021 in one over run sentence.
By Candace Burningham4 years ago in Pride
