A gay bloke at uni
We'll call him Steve. That wasn't his real name and I don't really know why I'm bothering with an alias, because his name is entirely irrelevant to this story and you probably wouldn't even have noticed if I hadn't used a name at all.

I don't know if he was a one-off or there are other people like it but he seemed to have trouble deciding whether he was pissed off at people treating him differently because he was gay or pissed off at people accepting his sexuality as if it was no more important than anyone else's.

I know it must be a hard thing to come out to your parents but he seemed annoyed at how difficult it had been to do so and also annoyed at how they seemed entirely unphased by him being gay.

I assume he was partly angry at being persecuted by idiots he didn't care about but also disappointed at missing out on some potential melodramatics that he'd worked himself up for if he got persecuted by his family and friends.

Either way ,"Wah! My dad doesn't care that I'm gay!" seems a slightly self-indulgent thing to complain about.
( Afinkawan Yes I can hear you Clem Fandango, Fri 2 Mar 2012, 12:43, 8 replies)

Just sounds like he's
a grumpy bastard.
(username failed moderation, Fri 2 Mar 2012, 12:47, closed)

Nah.
He was a good bloke.

Perhaps coming out was just a bit of an anti-climax when his folks turned out to be entirely reasonable about it.

Mitchell's behaviour with Jay in Modern Family reminds me a bit of it.
( Afinkawan Yes I can hear you Clem Fandango, Fri 2 Mar 2012, 15:13, closed)

Reminds me of the gay couple on here
who gave me shit when I told a story about a guy I used to work with who thought just because someone was gay it made them a paedophile. All I wrote was that it made me facepalm and they went off on some rant about how they don't need defending by faghags.
( Peej, Fri 2 Mar 2012, 12:54, closed)

I bet his parents were a bit more fazed
that he may have realised
(TheManWithThePlan cussed your mum on, Fri 2 Mar 2012, 13:28, closed)

Possibly.
But unless his personality radically changed after he came out, I suspect he wasn't fooling them for an instant.
( Afinkawan Yes I can hear you Clem Fandango, Fri 2 Mar 2012, 15:17, closed)

was he the only gay in the village by any chance?

( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 2 Mar 2012, 14:05, closed)

I never investigated
but I would assume Bristol has more than one.
( Afinkawan Yes I can hear you Clem Fandango, Fri 2 Mar 2012, 15:18, closed)

Heh, the ex and I weren't upset when our son came out to us either, and I think he was a bit disappointed too.
It's no big deal though. He's our son and that's it.
(Juan Quar is clinging to her front teeth on, Sat 3 Mar 2012, 8:51, closed)