How'd your family react to your coming out?

[Brem]

If you're someone who happens to be gay, bi-sexual, trans or anything else under the LGBTQ+ banner, how did it go revealing your truth to your parents, rest of your family and friends? How did they react to the news? I'm straight, but I know gay people who have told their family and friends about their sexuality. Some didn't go the way they liked, and some took a while to get through it.

I know not all families and friends are accepting of that, but I think it's good to let them know, because it will tell you if they're accepting or not. If they're not, you at least get an idea of the family/friends who don't like that news. So you can move on from them if you want to. Especially if you can't change their feelings on it.

 

[uptrendfinancialsignal]

It was not that easy to come out to my family. My mom did not understand, my dad hardly uttered a word. But with time, things changed. I continued to open up to them, explaining and letting them see from my perspective. Though, it takes time.

 

[Teri W]

The family that I am from would immediately ostracize anyone that publicly comes out as gay or lesbian. No one would freely associate with such a person and they would not even give them any form of assistance as a family.

 

[Ravenfreak]

My parents were super chill when I came out as trans. My mom already knew it, I would say things like "I wish I was a boy" when I was a kid. I always dressed in boys clothing too, and when I was in 8th grade I went by my last name in band class since there were a group of us and we all picked different nicknames and my last name is a first name for boys too. I remember there was another peer in my group who went by the name Chuck who later came out as trans too. My parents love and accept me as their son. Some of my extended family aren't kind though, they're disrespectful to me so I chose to cut them out of my life.