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Far-Queue posted...

Sorry, I'm at work and there's a lot to address but I'll try to.

She was in her late 20s when she came out (she's in her early-mid 30s now). It was after our very religious, very anti-gay grandmother passed away. We've spoken about that, and she said she didn't come out because she didn't want to upset or disappoint our grandmother. She was a wonderful woman, just from an era and a religious background that looked at homosexuality as a sin, end of story.

Didn't mean to be insulting insinuating she was solely seeking attention, as if her coming out was any less valid. But I don't completely shy away from that insinuation. If you find that insulting, I apologize, but without going through her history and patterns of behavior and her personality, which would take a lot of time, I couldn't properly frame what it is that I meant. Suffice to say, you'd have to know my cousin to understand.

Thanks for the explanation. That's pretty common to stay quiet about sexuality with religious family members. Plenty of people post about gay rights even if they're cis/het, clearly your cousin isn't straight. Whether she's fully lesbian or not she is still part of the LGBT spectrum. I don't see why that is surprising or confusing that she would support those things publicly now even dating a man.

Though some of these other posters have no excuse for piling on rude assumptions about bisexuality and sexual attraction.
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