Reply #14: I never came out to my dad, and didn't have to with mom [View All]

[Lilith Velkor]

Dad and I didn't speak to each other for 20 years, over something unrelated to my sexuality. I got back in touch with him 5 years ago, and since then, we had one very oblique conversation about it, in which he indicated that he would rather not know. He's 80 and a staunch social conservative, but resigned to the fact that society has changed and is still changing, and gay people will be fully integrated sometime very soon after he's dead, at which point he will not be in a position to care.

With Mom, the conversation was like: "I'm bisexual." "Yeah, I know. Can you help me find my reading glasses?" and that was that.