Are/were you out to your grandparents?

[Yooper]

Maternal Grandparents never knew. Mom's Father passed before I was born, and her Mother passed when I was 12.

Paternal Grandparents had to know but it was never discussed. My Father, their only child, was divorced from my Mother just after my first birthday under the grounds (back then, there had to be a reason) of 'Cruel and Unusual Treatment' which he pleaded No Contest to (my Mother, when she was pregnant with me, found him in their bed with the Best Man from the wedding).

Before my Paternal Grandfather passed in the early 90's, he helped me buy a new car under the stipulation I was to drive it from Michigan to Colorado to come visit. I brought The Partner with. Nothing was said, although instead of staying with them, we stayed at some other friends in order to avoid unnecessary questions.

The last 5 years of my Paternal Grandmother's life, she knew, but never said much. It just wasn't discussed. I took over her affairs due to failing health, and the last year and a half of her life The Partner had joined me in Colorado. He was with me the night I got called up to the Nursing Home when she passed.

 

[Rickrock]

No, I never told them and I don't believe that they knew even though I was in my twenties when my paternal grandparents died, and was in my thirties when my maternal grandmother died. My maternal grandfather died before I was born. I never told my parents either, but believe that my mother figured it out later and my father might have later as well. We never discussed it.

 

[HoodedRat]

Yep. I came out to my family in the mid 70s, when i was about 14; my grannies already knew.

 

[eddielee]

I was out to my Grandmother. She was born in 1909, so she has long past away. She was a sweet, wonderful lady and a superb cook, I did not have to tell her I was gay, as her keen perception told her. She was very liberal in thought and we talked a lot about different things and she asked me a lot about my boyfriends. She was old fashioned about wanting me to date good upstanding boys, and to leave the "riffraff" alone. She practiced Wiccan a little, and some afternoons we would gaze in her crystal ball. Her death hurt me badly, but somehow, I know beyond a doubt, that she is always with me.

 

[eastofeden]

No...because they died before I knew I was gay....

The both would have been OK with it...because they both hated religion...

My one grandma's lifelong best friends were a lesbian couple....they took care of each other because my grandma was bi-racial and people...white and black... were pretty mean to her....and they were openly lesbians in the 1920s and all their lives. I called them my aunts and they also put up with a lot of shit...so their friendship with my grandma was great....

 

[jbrown329]

No...because they died before I knew I was gay....

The both would have been OK with it...because they both hated religion...

My one grandma's lifelong best friends were a lesbian couple....they took care of each other because my grandma was bi-racial and people...white and black... were pretty mean to her....and they were openly lesbians in the 1920s and all their lives. I called them my aunts and they also put up with a lot of shit...so their friendship with my grandma was great....

I'm pretty sure that my great uncle (grandma's brother) was gay. It was never discussed though. Wish I'd have asked grandma if it was true or not.

 

[Agent Provocateur]

I'm not sure if my mother has told my grandparents that I'm gay. My father's parents both died when I was a child. It's going to be an unavoidable subject if there's ever a family gathering, because it's not like I'm going to hide my boyfriend from them.

 

[72-Jay]

Nope I wasn't.

One set of grandparents I never met (or if I did I woulda been very young)
The other set of grandparents who I did meet a couple times as a kid:
grandfather.. I was still fairly young when he passed
grandmother.. I woulda had some idea about myself before she was gone, but certainly was before I accepted it or anything.