Coming out to friends and family advice?

Today i finally plucked up the courage to tell my one of my best friends that i was gay, but am terrified about telling my main group of friends as their full on christians and am worried that they will reject me. ive heard what they think of gay people and how they think its wrong and doesn't work. the same is for my mum and step dad they hate seeing gay people on tv kissing. After telling my mate that i was gay i felt so happy about myself but the thought of telling the other people scares me so much. does anyone have any advice???Coming out to friends and family advice?
well, congratulations for having the courage to come out to at least one of our friends. this is a situation where when you come out to friends, you are going to find out who your ';real friends'; are. and that really a good thing. unfortunately, people that you thought were your friends will turn out not to be your friends, just because you tell them that you are gay. and if that is the case, were those ';friends'; really your friends in the first place? friendship should be totally unconditional. friends accept friends no matter what one friend tell another friend. and keep in mind that not everyone in the whole world is going to be your friend for whatever reason.





but the most important thing here is that you are wanting and starting to come out. and you will find that coming out is a thing of personal freedom. you might lose some ';friends'; but in the big picture, when you come out you will gain alot of new friends because you can totally be the real you with all of your friends and not have the worries of what your real friends think about you being gay. because you will find out and know that your real friends don't care at all about your sexual orientation at all. Coming out to friends and family advice?
Take it slow. You might not want to take on the whole group at once, maybe just a couple trusted ones (like your bf) at a time to have someone to help comfort you if things go bad. your friends may surprise you and be more open to understanding you than to stereotyping you since you are their friend. We can only hope though. Don't do anything mroe than you're ready to do.
Honey, i had the same situation, i told my best friend who by the way, was the most homophobe on earth LOL! He was shocked and didn't speak to me for a couple of weeks but he changed his point of view and he said that he loves me no matter what and guess what we've become bestest friends forever. And he supports gay rights now. About your folks, that's a completely different situation, i never came out to my parents, i'm just 20 but i knew they couldn't deal with it. But i will someday soon. All i'm trying to say is, if your parents really love you from the bottom of their hearts whch i believe it's true, then they will get along with this but it's gonna take a while and you should talk to them about the whole thing and tell me that there's no such a thing as CHOICES and it's genetics. Anyway you're living in the most industrialized country in the world after all, what about gay people who live in middle east? Thank god we're here. And one more think, if u think your parents won't handle the truth then don't tell'em untill you can stand on your own feet, my friend got his *** kicked by his folks and they kicked him out and he was living on streets for a while, so remember when you drop the bomb on them, there's no coming back if they're not supportive. But if they love you dear, those are the ties that bind and you'll have your family and friends forever. I wish ya the best of luck.
If your family truly loved you, then they'd accept that your gay.


If you friends really are friends, they'd accept that your gay.


As for me, I have no problem with you being gay cause it's about love, not gender.





Plus I think it's pretty cool.

laura mercier