Gay confessions
How was she going to react confession she saw me for the first time since I announced in a letter to her that I was gay? After ringing the doorbell, her footsteps seemed to take forever to reach the front door. It was as if life had gone into slow motion, making me wait even longer to find out her reaction.
She probably had, but the fact that nothing had changed was a welcome relief. Her love for me was as evident as it always had been. I crossed my fingers and wished and hoped that all my family would react like my mother did. Nobody gay is homosexual. How could a member of my family say that?
Thank goodness I was living and working in London. But I was concerned that the letter writer had my address. My mother had probably given it to him. I felt that the family member who had written the letter had just blown my family apart.
Stories of First Gay experience
It brought me down to earth with a painful bump! A few weeks later, another grim situation hurtling towards me at a hundred miles per hour finally caught up with me. But this one was different. It was a silent rejection where nothing was said. But the reaction to me coming out as gay contained all the confessions that told me what was about to happen.
It would be over 30 years before I saw or said anything to my father again. Sadly, that was the last I saw of one of my aunts. She passed away before my father accepted the situation of who I was and not who he wanted me to be. The confession aunt was more tolerant when I visited her for the first time after reuniting with my father.
However, there was no mention of me being gay. But during other visits, things gradually came to the surface. Crosswires came to my mind. While all my aunt was doing was wanting me to take the lead in introducing her to my life. We both ended up laughing about it. I never found gay what she meant by that.
My grandmother gay the family member I thought would be the most accepting of my coming out.