Is it normal to fear how others will react to your sexuality?

Well how old are you? If you're comparatively young, I'm sure they will think it's a phase. That's how my family is. Although my oldest brother is gay. When i was 14 I had a crush on one of my friends and she asked me out. I tried talking to my mom about my different crushes throughout the years and she says they are "friend crushes". But you know who you are. And maybe they just don't need to know. Or if you feel they should know, all them. Who care what they think?

well, i can give you this advice, just be your self, you should try to tell your parents no matter how hard it is because you dont want to spend the rest of you life wondering if they would accept you right? Also if you family cares about you which i am sure they do,they will accept it even though it will be hard at first, they will accept it because the care about you and want you to be happy and well their your family. i am not trying to be happy go lucky with all of this or anything but, it comes down to this, really they care about you they will respect your decisions because in reality they care about your happiness as well. you see what i mean? you can take this how ever you want, i just like to give advice to people.

You may be surprised; my parents religious background is part of the reason why they still consider me their child, regardless of the choices and decisions i've made in my life. I'm in the bible belt too; was raised in a strict religious environmnet. I'm definitely the black sheep in the fam, but they still love me. We will NEVER see eye to eye on things. My mom every once in a while will remind me she prays for God to spare my soul and that I will come to my senses. But i still visit them every week and we're always there for each other.

It's easy to negatively judge or shun decisions your friends and family makes, but they may feel a little different if its their own son. Not saying it will be sweet and easy because it definitely wasn't for me (i didn't talk to them for about six months. But eventually, everyone calmed down. Good luck to you!

I can't imagine what it feels like to live in such a closed-minded environment. I live in what is popularly known as the gayest city in Europe (although Hamburg runs us close). Where most cities have a Chinatown district, we also have a "gay village".

I don't understand the level of ignorance you may be confronted with and I wouldn't know how to convince people against the word of God for these "horrible" proclivities. In short, I really don't know what you do next. I wish there wasn't such hate in people. I can only wish you all the luck in the world.

I can understand this. I graduated from an all girls Catholic high school last year and it was only this year that one of my close friends told our group she was bisexual. I was completely shocked that she hadn't told us earlier as she said she had known for a while. None of us are in any way close minded and our school had it's fair share of lesbians/bisexuals so I was kind of hurt that she didn't tell us earlier. I'm not too sure about your family but I think you should give your friends a little more credit. True friends could give a rats ass what gender you're attracted to; they'd just want you to be happy ^_^

Its not a big deal