I didn't have to announce to my family that I was straight.
Not because acceptance issues. It's because it dosnt concern them at all.
Why do gay people give such a forget about family acceptance. Yet most of em will declare gay pride.
You can't do both
Because being straight is socially acceptable and even preferred in a lot of cases. Everyone assumes you are straight until proven otherwise. Many parents think "Oh well my child will hopefully grow up one day and have kids and continue our family line." Being gay is kind of an end of the natural line thing. Not unless you get something like in vitro fertilization.
I think you also forget that parents control a lot of the child's future, in the sense of funding. There are numerous times that teens have come out and their parents have essentially disowned them. How do they continue on with education when their source of funding no longer supports them? The person will have to start from the bottom of the barell, accrue all their own funds and
maybe scrape enough to get to college to
maybe get better jobs than the stuff ones they have already. The fear of coming out is that the parents make the remainder of their time together in the household a living hell.
Also how can you not do both? Cases where they are prideful and unaccepted by their family, they are out on their own already. "My family doesn't accept me because they're bigots. I'm going to be proud of who I am because it's a natural and normal thing." More respect even to those who
aren't on their own but still openly prideful.
