THE CRAZY THINGS OUR MOM'S SAY

"is it because you don't like boys?" me and my friends love to laugh at that especially when I impersonate the tone, the volume and her body language when she said it.

my dad said with a really funny voice , hun i do understand why you're gay . some guys are just way TOOOO retarted, and then he ended it with wow atleast i know you wont get pregnent by sleeping around lol :p ..

Well at lease you dont have to worry about grilling any potential bf's she would have brought home. 

when my mother found out we sat down to chat about it, i remember one thing she said was...

"oh my god, Anton (my dad) shut the windows the neighbours can hear!"

we're over it now, but it was rocky for about 6 months

Not that funny unless you know my mum.

But she's in the habit of making terrible jokes, and once in response to my rather sarcastic, "Ha ha you're so funny." she said "Well you're queer, so shut it."

I was left rather speechless lol.

My parents and I aren't as close as we once were but we are on decent terms. A few months ago, we were discussing my future and this was the conversation:

Mother: So, you are moving out at the end of June?
Kaitlin: Yes.
Father: With who?
Kaitlin: Kyra.
Mother: I thought you two broke up.
Kaitlin: We were never together.
Mother: Yes, you were.
Father: Kristine -
Mother: - I heard you hurt her.
Kaitlin: From who?
Mother: People talk.
Kaitlin: And?
Mother: So, she doesn't love you now?
Father: Of course she still loves her. They are in love.
Kaitlin: She will always love me and I will always love her.
Mother: Well, Jennifer said -
Father: - They love each other.
Kaitlin: We do.

I smiled.

I probably wont say it  better then she would but this is how it happen for her. She was already involved with a man and married and pregnant and had very strong feelings for me. So she decided to tell her mom that she was a lesbian. so any way she calls her mom and tells her mom she needs to talk. so her mom comes over and they start talking  and before she can even tell her mom. Her mom was like " what do you have to tell me that you finally realize you where gay; She then said I knew all along you are gay just look at who you been best friends (which is me) with ever since we moved to Florida. So Jessi ask her mom then why did you never come to me and talk to me; it would of solved a lot of problems for me. her mom said well being you are only child we wanted to be grand parents. So Jessi thought about it for a minute and goes well now your going to be grand parents you can let me live my life the way i want it now.  Although Jessi did have 1 more child with her then husband; She eventually did leave him and she had to wait for me to finish my cheer-leading duties before I was able to move. And we been together ever since.

My mom said, 'maybe you haven't found the right guy to have sex with yet.'

Yeah. that's it.

Dream little darling, dream

my mom everytime we go out and shes sees a pretty girl that has a short hairstyle or if she dresses punk she goes is she gay do you know her you should find out if shes gay you would look cute with her. she seriously thinks that i know every lesbian that lives in this state lol

brother- when i came out to him (he was one of the first people i came out to and hes my best friend) but anyway im like dude im gay and he was like so is this why i could never go after sam, jess, and jen? dude you took all the hot chicks!! That sucks that means i actually have some competition for girls now i thought i was in the clear only having sisters i had all your (meaning my 5 sisters and my) friends to pick through. Oh and since you are into chicks gia thinks your hott i told her you were straight but i can give you her number if you wanna set things straight or gay or whatever you wanna say now .

everytime my mom and i go out i seem to get hit on (by girls)...this is how the convos with her after those "incidents" go

Mom: seriously you must give off some scent so the girls know your gay

me: eh what can i say im just hot stuff (jokingly)

Mom: maybe if you didnt walk like your gay you could get the boys too

Me: i dont want boys

Mom: oh yeah your gay...

shes a funny lady but she doesnt seem to understand why i dont want to date boys and girls and why i dont want to have multiple relationships...oh mother!

One of my mom comments were how can you be with someone who has a period like you do. I thought that was funny.

A co-worker said how can you have a baby like that.

About 5 years ago I was walking with a friend and we passed a homeless guy asking for money we ignored him. He called after us I"m gay too. That was so funny to me.

Her comment was "well at least your happy and does she know how important your family is to you?"She does..and my sister is amazing!! she runs interference at the family functions and will be the first to put someone in their place if they get obnoxious...

My mom is still trying to convince herself I am not gay...I got a wall decoration from her in the mail to go into my new house that read " No boy is worth crying over. And the one who is wont make you cry"

It should have just read " No boy is worth crying over".

My grandmother however has started to watch Ellen ( i think she thinks it will help her understand??) and has been quite supportive and was even upset that I didnt feel comfortable with myself and was married miserable for so long...She says how hard it must be to not know who you are and even harder still to not have those around you to help you feel safe enough to find out." 

Smart Lady

"Don't tell me how to be, because I like some suffering; Don't ask me what I need, I'm just fine finding me"

My dad tries to point out every girl he thinks I would like, or if he introduces me to a girl (he works at the college I go to) he always adds, "And I know what you're thinking. Sorry, she's straight." 

My grandmother always asks if I'm 'over this nonsence' and tells me that she's worried about my soul.

"Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth. ~Benjamin Disraeli"

not my mom (who remains silent) but my sister said that very seriously after I came out:

"How cool! I always wanted to have a gay brother!"

Maybe someone should explain her the difference...

My Mom said.. "so what?" when I told her I was gay.

My Sister said.. "I always knew you were my little brother!!"

My cousin said.. "Soo.... How do you guys have sex?"

And a few years ago my Dad randomly asked if I was a lesbian before I even thought I was and his reasoning was "Well. Atleast you wouldn't get pregnant that way"

Hahaha. Oh family.

Tutto Succede Per Una Ragione

My mother has this clever tactic of getting me alone in the car every time I come home from school. She'll usually lure me with a trip to the mall or something and before I catch on I find that we are sitting in some empty parking lot with the doors locked and windows up. And then she wants to talk...

On one of these occasions she got it off her chest that she loves me and all no matter what, but that she just wasn't ready to start marching in parades and "burning her bras!" I had to explain to her that she was confusing lesbians with feminist again. 

Another gem comes from my college roommates mother (who I love!). She and her husband came to visit and took us out for a nice dinner. The next day my roommate tells me that her mom loves me (she usually says this and asks about me all the time) and complemented my slightly boi style, saying "Nicole wears her sexuality well!"

Thanks mom. 

So, in the car one day my mom says:

"gay people have a mental disease, a mental disorder.  you don't understand now, but when you are older, you WILL. Thank GOD we were born normal (she doesn't know about me HAHAHAH!) "

So so hurtful =[  How is being gay bad in any way? 

I've been dreaming of her~

When my mother actually started talking to me again (about 2 weeks after I came out), she had some odd questions. 

One:  How could you possibly know?  (I'd never dated guys) and Two:  Do you honestly think you could have sex with a woman, you know how they have sex right??

Really???  Come on.  They covered that on like page 5 of the "How to be a Lesbian" handbook, right?  Honestly, though I don't want to know about her sex life and she shouldn't be picturing mine. 

My dad figured I hated men or something.  I explained it by equating sexuality to having a favorite color.  Yeah, way to go me.  I said "well, it's kinda like having a favorite color.  It's not that I hate the color red, it's just that, for whatever reason, I prefer green."  Yeah, that cleared it up.

Maybe we should start a thread on our weird responses to questions?

My parents are actually doing a lot better with my coming out two years later.  They say they love me regardless, even if they don't really understand.

dont' have a good story about my mom..BUT when i came out to my best friend and told her i was dating a girl...she looked at me with a serious face and said "if she's ugly i'm gonna KILL YOU"..haha..

'your sarcisicasity is verbacious to my intellectioniosity.'

Catches sooo much heat from her mom about being gay.  She came out a few years ago and her mom is always telling her how much of an embarassment she is to her and how much of a pain she is.  Her mom treats her like shit and it seems that our whole side of the family has written her off.  They always talk about her as if she's the black sheep and it's all such a big shameful secret.  I love her to death because she was the first person in my family i came out to (which of course she knew just never said anything) and she's now one of the only ones I will hang out with on that side of the tree.  After i came home from the active side of the Navy, I was hanging out with her alot because she was one of the few people here that I could actually relate to.  One of our cousins had the nerve to say to me "well atleast she's hanging out with you....*pause* she needs a GOOD influence in her life." i'm getting mad "how do you mean?" "oh, well, you know." now i want to kill her "huh...because she's gay right.  Oh yeah, nobody wants to talk about it right, ya'll would rather treat her like shit instead of accepting her for who she is.  You know, I know now why the sees so upset most of the time.  I have to go, have a good night." *silence on the other end as i hang up the phone*  Needless to say I have not been brave enough to come out to that side of the family but I will not stand by and let them treat her like that!!

~Tabby~

Mom: I heard you tell Tim you had a girlfriend.

Me: Oh...about that...

Mom: Have you been "down there" on her yet.

Me:...uh

Mom: Just make sure everything is clean down there on her. You could get sick if she has an infection.

Me; I'm going Tim's...

(my brother had already apparently told my mom I was gay. i think that is why she just go to the point so quickly and awkwardly. Lol!)

Kassie = ]