I'm so glad to hear that other people have felt more comfortable with "gay" than "lesbian" because of the sexualization of lesbians! I totally thought I was alone in that.
I think I might come out to either my parents or Facebook soon. Maybe, Idk. I'm friends with my dad on Facebook, but he absolutely never uses it, he doesn't even have a profile pic on it. I haven't been friends with my mom on Facebook for a while, because she keeps reverting to generic Republican rhetoric on most issues with hardly an individual thought. So the only people that will immediately see it on Facebook would be my sisters, other friends, and more distant family. As for my parents in person, my mom is the type of person who's somewhat nurturing, I'm her favorite child and she's very vocal about it, but she's somewhat irrational in her thought processes and tends to argue a lot. Whereas my dad is a lot like me in that he's very calm, analytical, we tend to have long in-depth conversations about a wide variety of subjects so long as my mom's not involved, and he only seems to get upset when either someone's arguing with my mom or when someone at work screwed up by failing to follow established procedure. I might come out to him first, maybe early in the morning while he's getting ready for work and my mom's not awake yet.
Hey, I have a friend that came out as a transgender man on Facebook, and was received well. If you think it'd be easier, then try that. I used my Facebook description to reveal I was an atheist. I know it's not the quite same thing but I thought it'd help.
This discussion on gender and sexuality identity makes me think about what I've not so recently come across. This may complicate things a bit more, but then it may help with identification. So, the acronym is GRSM (in a sense replacing LGBTQIA+, less letters and more inclusive) which stands for Gender Romance Sexuality Minorities. Romance is given an orientation in this sense. And, maybe some of you already have come across this already, but I'll explain anyway. So... -Gender is what gender you identify as such as cis man or trans woman, for example. -Sexuality is the same homosexual, bisexual, heterosexual, pansexual, etc. -Romance works in the same way as sexuality but putting romantic as the suffix instead of sexual, for example homoromantic, hetero romanic, bi romantic, etc. -Minorities works the same way in other contexts like racial minorities. So, for example, I identify as a cis-male (non-minority status), homoromantic, homosexual. Another person might identify as a cis-male, heteroromantic, pansexual or trans-man, biromantic, bisexual or non-binary, panromantic, asexual Of course, it can get a bit iffy when doing these combinations since romance and sexuality are based on gender identification... and some of these combinations may not make much sense, but can technically be possible such as someone who identifies as a cis-male who is heteroromantic homosexual. In fact, I have come across a heteroromantic cis-couple who both identify as homosexual - they don't have sex with each other but with others of their same gender (open-relationship), but love each other and committed to each other. Now, sexuality is very fluid for some and so this may not work for all. Some people identify as sexually fluid and maybe even romantically fluid. And, there could be a relationship orientation identifier as well like monogamous, polyamorous, open-relationship, etc. People's orientation is their own, for sure, but I like the idea adding a romantic orientation because that could explain certain people's behaviors like cis-males who are married (heteroromantic), but have sex with other males on the side (bisexual) - but they would say that they were still straight. This identification could work for them. Also, there are a couple of additional markers I've come across such as andro (male) and gyno (female) that could be used as prefixes in the romance and sexuality areas... for example, someone could be a androsexual (sexually attracted to people, regardless of sex, who present themselves as what society considers "male") or someone could be gynoromantic (romantically attracted to someone, regardless of sex, who presents themselves as what society considers "female")... and other terms like androgyno-sexual / androgyno-romantic may apply... I don't know what non-binary could be, but I'm sure it could be included. Yes, this gets me a bit confused as well just thinking about all the possibilities and yeah, there could be holes poked into this, but it's just something fun to think about. I find it interesting anyway. There are videos that talk about this here on RUclips. I first came about it by watching Mr. Atheist. You could just probably type in his channel name and GRSM to find those videos. He talks about his own identification as cis-male gynoromantic pansexual (with exceptions that you'll have to find out by watching him talk about it). Anyway, thought I would throw this into the mix. Have fun and keep on the discussions!
I would like to disagree with the "I already know" thing, specifically if you're coming as trans, it's great, because all trans people question whether they really are trans all the time, so the confirmation that even someone else thinks you're trans is great.
As someone that grew up in a very conservative small town if I came out to someone and they told me they knew I would have been terrified, I constantly wore dresses and made myself be really into makeup and stuff so idk
these need to be longer, im hooked. im 30 and since watching ive come out as Bisexual to 5 close people, its a super power
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I'm so glad to hear that other people have felt more comfortable with "gay" than "lesbian" because of the sexualization of lesbians! I totally thought I was alone in that.
I think I might come out to either my parents or Facebook soon. Maybe, Idk.
I'm friends with my dad on Facebook, but he absolutely never uses it, he doesn't even have a profile pic on it. I haven't been friends with my mom on Facebook for a while, because she keeps reverting to generic Republican rhetoric on most issues with hardly an individual thought. So the only people that will immediately see it on Facebook would be my sisters, other friends, and more distant family.
As for my parents in person, my mom is the type of person who's somewhat nurturing, I'm her favorite child and she's very vocal about it, but she's somewhat irrational in her thought processes and tends to argue a lot. Whereas my dad is a lot like me in that he's very calm, analytical, we tend to have long in-depth conversations about a wide variety of subjects so long as my mom's not involved, and he only seems to get upset when either someone's arguing with my mom or when someone at work screwed up by failing to follow established procedure. I might come out to him first, maybe early in the morning while he's getting ready for work and my mom's not awake yet.
Good luck! I wish you well.
Hey, I have a friend that came out as a transgender man on Facebook, and was received well. If you think it'd be easier, then try that. I used my Facebook description to reveal I was an atheist. I know it's not the quite same thing but I thought it'd help.
This discussion on gender and sexuality identity makes me think about what I've not so recently come across. This may complicate things a bit more, but then it may help with identification. So, the acronym is GRSM (in a sense replacing LGBTQIA+, less letters and more inclusive) which stands for Gender Romance Sexuality Minorities. Romance is given an orientation in this sense. And, maybe some of you already have come across this already, but I'll explain anyway. So...
-Gender is what gender you identify as such as cis man or trans woman, for example.
-Sexuality is the same homosexual, bisexual, heterosexual, pansexual, etc.
-Romance works in the same way as sexuality but putting romantic as the suffix instead of sexual, for example homoromantic, hetero romanic, bi romantic, etc.
-Minorities works the same way in other contexts like racial minorities.
So, for example, I identify as a cis-male (non-minority status), homoromantic, homosexual.
Another person might identify as a cis-male, heteroromantic, pansexual or trans-man, biromantic, bisexual or non-binary, panromantic, asexual
Of course, it can get a bit iffy when doing these combinations since romance and sexuality are based on gender identification... and some of these combinations may not make much sense, but can technically be possible such as someone who identifies as a cis-male who is heteroromantic homosexual. In fact, I have come across a heteroromantic cis-couple who both identify as homosexual - they don't have sex with each other but with others of their same gender (open-relationship), but love each other and committed to each other. Now, sexuality is very fluid for some and so this may not work for all. Some people identify as sexually fluid and maybe even romantically fluid. And, there could be a relationship orientation identifier as well like monogamous, polyamorous, open-relationship, etc. People's orientation is their own, for sure, but I like the idea adding a romantic orientation because that could explain certain people's behaviors like cis-males who are married (heteroromantic), but have sex with other males on the side (bisexual) - but they would say that they were still straight. This identification could work for them.
Also, there are a couple of additional markers I've come across such as andro (male) and gyno (female) that could be used as prefixes in the romance and sexuality areas... for example, someone could be a androsexual (sexually attracted to people, regardless of sex, who present themselves as what society considers "male") or someone could be gynoromantic (romantically attracted to someone, regardless of sex, who presents themselves as what society considers "female")... and other terms like androgyno-sexual / androgyno-romantic may apply... I don't know what non-binary could be, but I'm sure it could be included.
Yes, this gets me a bit confused as well just thinking about all the possibilities and yeah, there could be holes poked into this, but it's just something fun to think about. I find it interesting anyway. There are videos that talk about this here on RUclips. I first came about it by watching Mr. Atheist. You could just probably type in his channel name and GRSM to find those videos. He talks about his own identification as cis-male gynoromantic pansexual (with exceptions that you'll have to find out by watching him talk about it).
Anyway, thought I would throw this into the mix. Have fun and keep on the discussions!
pianomist definitely an interesting read
I would like to disagree with the "I already know" thing, specifically if you're coming as trans, it's great, because all trans people question whether they really are trans all the time, so the confirmation that even someone else thinks you're trans is great.
I think that depends on the person
As someone that grew up in a very conservative small town if I came out to someone and they told me they knew I would have been terrified, I constantly wore dresses and made myself be really into makeup and stuff so idk
There should be a drop out show where ally finds a bf for Grant and Grant finds a gf for ally
But i think Ally is in a relationship. (I might be wrong)
@@m.4645 if she is, I'm so proud of her sob.
Ally is dating someone
@@shellshockali5165 ally is non binary and prefers 'they/them' :)
ShellShock Ali ally literally says their pronouns in the first ten minutes
How would this work for an atheist? My guess is after I month the people trying to reconvert them would be atheist themselves.
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