Oh Everlasting, I know that situation very well!
That's how only in the final year of my graduation people started to know I'm gay (besides my high school friend I got to come out to 2 years before that). And how practically all my family still doesn't know.
I'll certainly tell everyone once I get a boyfriend, but until then, I'm fine.
Also, if anyone ever questions me because some eventual support on LGBT people, I'm secure enough to tell the truth (almost eager, but not yet).
Well people if any body gives you any crap for who you are, just know ya'll got a trigger happy Arcanine to help shove happiness up their noses
I have not come out at all with my family but I dont care now, I'll just tell them when im an adult.
To every one else I wear my stuff like a badge because no matter what you do, act like , look like, You should be proud of who you are because there is no one quite like You.
* starts humming in the name of love and hands everyone cookies *
Thanks guys!
And you know what's funny ? Today, only a day or two after making this post... I came out to my mom. Almost accidently. It was a reveal made in the spur of the moment. I was asking her about her night with her friend and she, obviously, made a sexual joke. But then she was like 'I'm kidding of course. I'd never do it with a woman.' and somehow the conversation flipped to 'I mean, would
you do it with another man ?' and instead of replying the usual 'of course not' I've been spitting at everyone for 2 years, I just said 'You know what ? Yes I would mom. Because I'm into both. I'm bisexual.'
I regret saying that. My mom has a hard time 'relating' apparently, as she, a heterosexual, could never imagine making love to the same gender. She says she understands and was guessing I had a thing for guys in a while, but she began talking about - and I am not joking - possibly every d*mn stereotype associated with bisexuality: you can't be interested in both the same way, in the end you'll have to choose, you might have sexual pulses that will lead you to cheat on your partner because you need of the other kind of sexual experience, you can't just go from girlfriend to boyfriend to girlfriend because the girls you'll date will be 'emotionally disturbed', you have time to grow up and change, you need to try it in bed before 'claiming' that (even though she didn't need to do it with a woman to know she wasn't into it, which I replied harshly) and so on...
I love my mom and she has made it very clear that she loves me no matter how I label myself. But seeing her embrace all these hurtful things I see on the internet that people say because they don't know what bisexuality is... I was heartbroken. I knew I couldn't expect her to understand at first, but it still hurt me...
*sigh*
For the time being, I won't bring it up again. I'll see if her behaviour changes. There's absolutely no way I am telling my father about this: I already feel uncomfortable in my own house not knowing if my mother is comfortable. My father is not nearly as open as my mother so it's out of question. The next one to know is likely going to be my brother, which I expect is going to be the most understanding family member. We'll see.
