Current Events > How did your family members react when you came out as gay/bi?

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I got the "whole" spectrum from my family when I told them back in high school.

My brother was really positive and supportive. The only change was that he began asking me about boys instead of girls (I almost tear up thinking about my awesome big bro).

My father had this neutral "use a condom" response.

My mother on the other hand did not take it well at all. She told me it was a phase. She said "good" and left the room when my first boyfriend broke my heart and I was really sad over it. Her handling of it all was poor as fuck. We have a good relationship now though.
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Mixed to negative. I'm not very close with any of my family really
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fine
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BalanceLost posted...

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It was awkward and we havent talked about it since :-/

Mom didn't care and my cousin who knows is gay so
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BalanceLost posted...

My father had this neutral "use a condom" response.

My mother on the other hand did not take it well at all. She told me it was a phase. She said "good" and left the room when my first boyfriend broke my heart and I was really sad over it. Her handling of it all was poor as fuck. We have a good relationship now though.

I feel like these two would probably be reversed in most cases
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My parents took it well and supported me, same with rest of family. Mom knew I was hiding something and was just happy I told her, dad thought I was hiding some major disease so he was relieved. One of my sisters just said "yeah I know"

Then I kinda came out again when I told about me liking partners being older, parents support me, same with 3 of my sisters others dont know? But they will when I bring David home to us.

My family is awesome tbh
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I never had to announce it to my family, they figured out I was bisexual based on who I spent a lot of time with. We've never really spoken about it. They seem a little uncomfortable with it, but mostly because they want grandchildren.

I have no interest in telling my extended family. I've seen how they talk about my lesbian aunt, and they can all fuck right off with that bigot bullshit
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Didn't got a chance to come out, at the time I was 16 and had to live in a living community. One of the lads there saw me out smooching this boy and told the group leader. They called my mum lol
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My mom was really supportive of me coming out, though she kind of assumed it tbh. I was never close with my father so it wasn't really surprising when he took it poorly. To this day I'm at odds with him and his side of the family to where my daughter barely even knows he exists and he's only met my wife a couple of times which were all during funerals.

Also doesn't help that he's racist as hell and my wife is Turkish-American and grew up Muslim.
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my mum didn't take it well when I told her. similar to you BL, she said it was a phase and that I still liked women since there was no gay signs from me previously

when she met my bf she didn't talk to him or give him much attention which was awful on her part

it took her a few months but she eventually grew to it

my older bro was awesome throughout, told me that nothing has changed and that he's happy i'm happy. which is great since I thought he'd handle it the worst
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Mom: No youre not... well I don't care anyways so whatever. Hows that new video game?

Didn't really come out to my sister and her husband but they decided to say something when they found out too.

Sister: Well that's okay, I mean I've thought about girls before.

Bro-in-Law: (Separately, trying to teach me how to use CraigsList) so theres all the women in California and you can narrow it down by city, and um... they have uh... guys on there too... whatever you're into...
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