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How many close family and friends have outright rejected and/or disowned you because you are gay?

How many close family and friends have outright rejected and/or disowned you because you are gay?

  • 0

    Votes: 17 73.9%

  • 1

    Votes: 3 13.0%

  • 2

    Votes: 1 4.3%

  • 3

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • 4

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • More than 4

    Votes: 2 8.7%
  • Total voters
    23
I voted 1, representing a former friend who never said anything about WHY the rejection, but circumstances point to the coming-out thing. About four years ago. He's a strong [STRIKE]Catholic[/STRIKE] Baptist**, etc.

**I initially had it wrong...

On the other hand, a friend who adores Rick Santorum and is also a very strong Catholic, respects me entirely...and he knows that I'm gay. I'm entirely welcomed to stay with him and his wife when I'm in that part of Oregon.
 
jdcnow said:
My mom and I no longer speak. And I haven't seen my brother in years. Oh, well, their loss. I'm spending far too much time trying to better myself and put myself through college to care. I've come to the realization that I don't need people in my life who are just going to hold me back, and make me feel less than.
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That's a great attitude! I agree, we do not need people who hold us back.
 
The ones who I thought were my close friends who rejected me because I'm gay were apparently not true friends to begin with.

No one in my immediate family or my mom and dad's immediate family has rejected me or disowned me. There are a few people in my dad's immediate family who don't agree with it (my mom's dad doesn't support same sex marriage but doesn't hate gays) and an uncle by marriage (dad's brother-in-law) who hates me because I'm gay (but he doesn't count). There are however many people in my dad's extended family like his first cousins and so on, a few from his mom's side but mostly from his dad's side, both sides of his are from Southeast Georgia who may or may not be religious but hate me because I'm gay. Many of those described are definitely conservative Republicans and at least one of them is Pentecostal. Most of them including some friends of these families have unfriended and blocked me on Facebook.

I voted 0 on the poll. The people that love and accept me are who count and anyone else who doesn't approve and can kiss my butt (not that I'd want them too. lol).
 
I came out to my dad at age 21. He wasn't crazy about it at first and it took him a while to get used to it, comfortable with it, and accept it but he's always been tolerant and never treated me any differently because of who I am. He didn't always agree with same-sex marriage but he eventually came around to accepting it and that times have changed and that was going to become and is now a reality.
 
People that don't accept you don't matter, even family. If they don't love you for who you are they don't deserve your love in return. Say good riddance to people who reject you because they are NOTHING BUT GARBAGE! THEY DON'T MATTER! There will be many out there who will love and accept you for who you are. Of course it hurts when family and friends reject you but you'll get over it as time passes for if they are truly meant to be in your life they'll accept you as is.
 
In the early 2000s I lost many "friends" but like I said they weren't really friends so they really don't count. I came out a few times in different ways: 15, 17, 18, 21. It's complicated. But I officially came out to my family and many others at 21. When Facebook came out after a few years of being on it after it became popular everyone knew that looked me up because my profile said Interested in Men but I did the same thing on MySpace after a while before Facebook took over more.
 
frankfrank said:
I voted 1, representing a former friend who never said anything about WHY the rejection, but circumstances point to the coming-out thing. About four years ago. He's a strong [STRIKE]Catholic[/STRIKE] Baptist**, etc.

**I initially had it wrong...

On the other hand, a friend who adores Rick Santorum and is also a very strong Catholic, respects me entirely...and he knows that I'm gay. I'm entirely welcomed to stay with him and his wife when I'm in that part of Oregon.
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I'm glad your friend respects you. Keep in mind that respect doesn't always mean accept or even tolerate. Sometimes people are nice to your face. I don't know him and his wife though. I don't see how any self-respecting person could like Rick Santorum though. That's just my two cents.
 
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