I keep being an on-again, off-again poster, I know.... More of a lurker, rarely anything to add. Just totally happy about something that's happened recently and wanted to share, but most of my friends are totally uninterested in knowing! :lol: As some of you know from other posts I've made, I got to college recently. I spent part of the summer doing some research on LGBTQ resources in college, but I didn't tell anyone outside of the people I presented to (i.e.: total strangers for the most part) what the topic was. For the first week of college, the school hosts a welcome week. It's totally gay-friendly to the tenth degree (Tucson = so incredibly gay-friendly, I love it), so one thing mentioned was a meet-up of any LGBTQ students one night to learn about what the college has. WELL, I went (and met some awesome people!!!), I met up with my mom for lunch the next day. She asked how classes were, yadda yadda. I'm taking Gay Studies this semester (needed a diversity course anyway), and I finally told her about that. She actually seemed interested, surprisingly. (Another thing I've mentioned in my posts: I used to live with other relatives before being disowned for being gay. Hence, I've always made a strict policy to never use the g-word in the house since I'm so scared it'll happen again. It was pretty hard to even mention the class I was taking.) After that, I told her some friends "totally forced me to go to some meeting" (total lie -- I went alone, by choice, eagerly) and then recounted everything about it. Her reaction: she starts telling me about all of her gay friends, and a story about one friend who was totally closeted but everyone knew, and how maybe I'll bump into my step-sister at the meetings from now on (she's gay, but I didn't come out then since my stepdad is a total homophobe and has banned her girlfriends from ever entering the house, hence the reason I ain't coming out to him!), and... how she used to have a girlfriend. :roflmao: So, I felt incredibly dumb for a short while. Apparently I have stalled telling my mother for the four years I've known I'm gay, have gone through hell being disowned over and over by family and keeping the reason I keep moving a secret, just to find out she's bi. The gods of irony are smiling down upon me!! Next step would be my sister, but I know she'd go totally berserk and try to convince me I'm straight and just confused. We're not that close anyway, so I figure, why bother? I'm happy.
