dawlin' ....in my teens/early 20's i am ashamed to admit i was just as much of a rabid, god fearing, self ritcheous homophobe as glad is now.
hatefull words that i said, good people whose feelings i went out of my way to hurt...these actions will haunt/hurt/embarass me until my dying day.
gradually i came around.
i'm only sorry it took me so long.
It's so sad that our society is so fucking repressed that we have to be made to feel dirty/ashamed of WHO WE ARE just because "somebody else" said so.
I watched my ex-inlaws with this utter bullshit and sadly none of them have changed. My ex-brother-in-law, to me over 20 years ago it was OBVIOUS the man was gay. Yet his entire family denied it. The only reason that my ex had any semblence of a relationship was due to MY URGING to get to know his brother regardless of whether he was gay or straight. I mean, really what difference would it make?
Oh Gladiator - guess what? Even though he later confessed to me and my husband (his brother) that he ALWAYS KNEW HE WAS GAY he still got married in his early 20's and had a son. duh... think for a minute outside of your silly little bubble. Gay people have children all the time.
He watched a loved life partner shrivel and slowly die from aids but because his entire family were such fucking homophobes he was not allowed to acknowledge his pain and devastation the entire time, not even after the funeral where the only words of "comfort" he got from his own mother (none of the family attended the funeral) were, "Thank goodness he's dead and won't be a burden to you anymore." That man was "just a housemate after all" I mean, it wasn't like my exbro-in-law could have POSSIBLY LOVED HIM.
So then lo and behold, my exbitchsterinlaw has two sons, the second of which was flamingly obvioulsy gay from very early on - we are talking 4. But of course, just as her older brother (who finally succumbed to aids a few years ago) "was just going through a phase" when he came out of the closet to his siblings bout the age of 40 something there was NO WAY HER SON COULD BE GAY.
Fucking morons.
My daughters' cousin finally came out to them recently. The boy is bout 18 now.
Don't worry gladiator, regardless of what your christian homeys in prison told you god will love you regardless. And even if he don't there are non-haters in the world who will accept you for your merits and wont give a damn about your sexuality.