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Ok, this is kind of embarrassing.
I put up an ad on craigslist and got a reply from someone with an obviously fake name. He asked to trade face pics and I said OK but he'd have to send his first.
He sent it and it turned up being someone I knew and someone I had suspected of being gay ever since I was a kid. My cousin!
I didn't reply back but this was just really shocking, even though I and everyone who's ever met him had suspicions. He and I have always been cool with each other as friends even though he is a total queen. In my family, anything feminine is looked down upon if you're a guy and many of our male family members disassociate themselves from him or made fun of him as a kid. I and some others though are still friends with him and even though we probably all suspect he's gay, we've never asked him or put him on the spot.
He is not out at all as far as I know. The kicker is he's described himself as straight acting in his email, but his behavior is extremely effeminate. His voice, taste in music, walk, sense of humor, style of clothing etc. I honestly don't think he's aware of this at all though.
This really creeped me out for another reason, and that's that I could have been sending my pic out to people in the past who might have very well knew me. In fact I once traded pics with a closeted guy and ended up seeing him at my church. He was one of the priests assistants during mass and he saw me and I think realized who I was. Talk about being creeped out.
Anyway, back to my cousin. I just do not know what to make of this. In person he has made many comments defaming gays. He's said many times about how he doesn't believe in gay marriage and things of that nature, so I don't know if he's trying to make some cover for himself or is just in some kind of deep denial.
Part of me wants to talk to him but that would mean I would be coming out to him myself and I don't have the nerve to do that. Especially since I think he's had some kind of weird crush on me ever since we were kids but also because I don't think I'd have the guts.
Anyway, has anyone ever been in a situation like this before or anything similar?
Discuss.
I put up an ad on craigslist and got a reply from someone with an obviously fake name. He asked to trade face pics and I said OK but he'd have to send his first.
He sent it and it turned up being someone I knew and someone I had suspected of being gay ever since I was a kid. My cousin!
I didn't reply back but this was just really shocking, even though I and everyone who's ever met him had suspicions. He and I have always been cool with each other as friends even though he is a total queen. In my family, anything feminine is looked down upon if you're a guy and many of our male family members disassociate themselves from him or made fun of him as a kid. I and some others though are still friends with him and even though we probably all suspect he's gay, we've never asked him or put him on the spot.
He is not out at all as far as I know. The kicker is he's described himself as straight acting in his email, but his behavior is extremely effeminate. His voice, taste in music, walk, sense of humor, style of clothing etc. I honestly don't think he's aware of this at all though.
This really creeped me out for another reason, and that's that I could have been sending my pic out to people in the past who might have very well knew me. In fact I once traded pics with a closeted guy and ended up seeing him at my church. He was one of the priests assistants during mass and he saw me and I think realized who I was. Talk about being creeped out.
Anyway, back to my cousin. I just do not know what to make of this. In person he has made many comments defaming gays. He's said many times about how he doesn't believe in gay marriage and things of that nature, so I don't know if he's trying to make some cover for himself or is just in some kind of deep denial.
Part of me wants to talk to him but that would mean I would be coming out to him myself and I don't have the nerve to do that. Especially since I think he's had some kind of weird crush on me ever since we were kids but also because I don't think I'd have the guts.
Anyway, has anyone ever been in a situation like this before or anything similar?
Discuss.

