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Well well well...finally a topic I can REALLY say something about!
Long story short, I'm the son of a lesbian, and I lived with my mom and her partner for the past 3 years (sophomore, junior, and senior years of high school). That's not when I found out, however; mom let the cat out of the bag between my 6th and 7th grade years, so it was summer of 1997. At first, I didn't know what to feel, but something in the back of my mind was telling me that I should've suspected this already, considering my mom's minor lack of feminine behavior and appearances (her hair was shorter than mine at more than one point in my life!). That and the fact that sex stopped for my mom and dad shortly after I was born, hence both she and my dad were growing pretty irate from lack of, uh, yeah...
OK, as if the fact that I'm the son of a lesbian wasn't weird enough, here's the bigger twist: honest-to-God, my mom has actually felt this way for almost as long as she can remember. She told me about the time when she was a little kid asking my grandpa why she wasn't a boy. My grandpa being the intellectual that he was, wasn't at all befuddled by this and accepted her homosexuality as a normal part of life. She always brought her girlfriends home while in high school, heh.
It gets better: The typical stereotype is that these gay parents come out for the first time to their spouses after years of marriage...not true in my parents' case. I have a hard time convincing people that my dad already knew of my mom's orientation quite a while before they were even married, yet the married nonetheless...and for 15 years too. My mom's main goal was to start a "normal" family and have her own children born in heterosexual wedlock (even though my older sister was techincally concieved out of wedlock, she was BORN in it, so yeah). Hence, both my older sister and me are around today.
Both my mom and dad hoped they would "change" her to heterosexuality, but alas it didn't work, and it never will, because my mom's the way she is and always will be. No football-watching-good-ole-boy-macho-man bubba will ever convince me otherwise. So now hopefully some people on here will understand why I take great personal offense whenever anyone says something along lines of, "Oh, that's gay!" or "That's for homos!", etc. If you insult homosexuals, you're insulting a member of my family, and that ain't good on your part. Not to scare anyone, but I wish that I was able to beat the living sh*t out of anyone who even innocently says something of a homophobic nature in that sense...honestly, that's what I feel like doing EVERY time I hear, "That's so gay!", yada yada yada...
Therefore, and trust me, I really regret having to say this, but anybody on this board I've actually gotten along with very well in the past who have now given their "old fashioned" opinions about something: congratulations, you just lost my respect for you....permanently. And this won't be like the way I said when I said I tossed away my respect for NTN...nothing will get it back now. Good day.
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