Well earlier today, my father was trying to go to a website that had started with the letters EMP. But because of his slow typing skills he had stumbled onto the Empty Closets sight because even though we use two different computers, our chrome accounts are linked for some stupid reason. He got skeptical and I blamed it on Google suggestions. He shrugged it off and then came to the conclusion that my 7 year old brother must have clicked it accidentally from a youtube link or something. After that shit hit the fan, he began talking about how the gay community has changed. How if you were gay in the 60s-80s you hid that shit. And there were alot of gay bashers in his area. Nothing I already didn't know, but damn was it hard to keep a calm tone without looking like I had something to hide. Anyone else almost get exposed for your sexuality by your parents?
Loads of times. I've had a few close calls with my gender. One time asked my mom what she would have named me if I was a boy. Cue her asking "oh, you getting sex reassignment?" "no mom...I'm pretty sure I'm cisgendered..."
Eh, I had a good cover. I'm supposedly a lesbian LGBT/feminist advocate with trans* friends and trans* characters in her fiction.
You might want to turn on private browsing when you use this site or other LGBT related sites. And clear your browser history as well.
Yeah, but I did get exposed, my dad found porn on my computer when I was younger and he confronted me, can't describe how embarrassed I was:icon_redf
I tried to come out, but they shrugged it off and said try wouldn't accept it, so I dropped it as well. Now they sometimes ask if I'm "doing okay."
He did, said he watched the whole thing, which is kinda weird now that I think about it lol. We never spoke of the matter again.
My security is too good for my parents to get through, but if they ever did catch me doing something like that, I'd just embarrass them until they shut up about it and repressed the memory.
Oh, my father occasionally walked into the room while I was typing certain things into Google. I would just have to drag the window to the corner of the screen as fast as possible and hope I wasn't being too obvious.
Shame you missed an opportunity there to explore you dads feelings on the subject. Not knowing the tone in his voice he may have been try to offer an opening, or was he saying it as a homophobic ??. Before my son came out to me I dropped some subtle hints to try & open him up but unfortunately it went straight over his head. When he came home from a party covered in love bites He said I think it was one of my old girlfriends I don't remember. So I came back with hey you never know it could of been one of your boyfriends. I did not say it sarcastically either but no over the head it went. :eusa_doh:
I personally don't have a situation, put I am quite paranoid about this thing. Although I'm out I still don't want my parents seeing my history.. I highly recommend using "Google Chrome : Incognito". It opens a window that doesn't save any history, so after using it you just exit out and there is no trace (history wise) that you have been on any sites.
Trust me, I know all about Google Chrome and incognito mode. I use it every time I feel like it *wink*. But as for this site, I keep it on my normal browsing history because I use incognito mode as sort of my browse of sham type thing. I don't consider going here to be shameful. The only problem was that my dad's Chrome was connected to my Chrome and our histories linked up.. So, awkward.. But I removed the account the exact same night.
That's what I do. I'm out to my parents, but I'd still feel a little uncomfortable about them seeing all of this. That's what tabs are for. Just leave one "normal" one open to switch to.
My parents are clueless. My grandfather might cause were talking about gays,lesbians, and bis once. Everytime we talked about the girl I like, in a friend like matter, he always had this knowing look in his eyes. All I thought was oh s***. hank God he never called me out on it that would be embrassing
Other day, mom walked in on me using EC. Don't think she saw anything because I switched windows and closed the laptop but still... Installed the panic button on Chrome just to ensure I never have another close call.
A couple of times my dad caught me with a boy making out. I told him we were wrestling. Maybe he believed me. Maybe he didn't. He didn't say one way or the other.
My father walked into my bedroom and caught me watching porn on my cell phone while lying on my bed. I panicked and instantly turned ir off, and after a lot of silence, I told him the truth, but not that it was gay porn. We had a nice conversation about how I shouldn't be scared of his reactions all the time, and he still thinks I'm straight.
