OT: What was the oddest thing said to you....

[Kat77]

After coming out to a friend or relative? And I do not mean rude comments, just the odd ones....

 

[Kat77]

'I am so glad you're gay'. I know it must have sounded really odd because he repeated the statement back to me

 

[ConcKahuna]

'I am so glad you're gay'. I know it must have sounded really odd because he repeated the statement back to me

RFLMAO!! That's a great one!!

 

[smartestnumber5]

The morning after I came out to my mother, she told my father over breakfast. She reported to me that his response was: "Do we have to talk about this over breakfast?"

 

[Accentuate+]

Are second hand stories ok?

My friend's son recently came out to her. It's probably funnier if you know her, completely down to earth anything that pops in her head comes right out of her mouth.

Son is 16, comes in one evening. Gravely states, "Mom, we need to talk". She panics, mind goes in a million directions. "What's wrong?!?!".
He takes a deep breath and dramatically pronounces, "Mom, I'm gay".
Her response - "Well, yeah.......but what's wrong?".

He has no memory of the time when he was about four or five and first heard the word gay used to describe a person. He asked he what it meant and she gave him the "that's when boys like other boys" explanation. His little face lit up and he said "Momma, that's me! That's me!". She's pretty much been waiting for him to come out ever since.

Right after he told her she made him call the entire family. Told him he may as well get it over with. She then mentioned condoms and told him to always use them but that she didn't want to ever talk about them again. We have a lot of gay male friends so she told him that some things would be harder because he was gay but that he'll have it a whole lot better than 'those that have gone before' and that he needed to save his money because egg donors and surrogates were expensive and she expected grandchildren.

I'm not sure what reaction he expected but he was pretty surprised by the one he got.

 

[lillielil]

From my father: That cool! I used to fool around with boys a lot... [drifts off into a very detailed story].

Sorry, but EEEWWWW! No 16-year-old wants to think about her father's intimate moments with anyone.

 

[Kat77]

RFLMAO!! That's a great one!!

But I was thrilled (silly me)! I worried for so long that he would live a lonely life... He did not date girls, was not yet dating boys and I honestly began to wonder if he was asexual.....

OMG- I have heard of the 'I experimented when I was young' schtick before but a dad elaborating is just TMI! He should pay for all future therapy.

 

[MickeyDee]

After a ditzy manager of mine met my girlfriend for the first time, she said, "so, are you supposed to be the girly one?" This was asked in all seriousness. And my girlfriend isn't butch by any stretch of the imagination. I guess that stuck with me, because it irritates me how so many people think that all lesbian relationships are of the butch-femme ilk.

 

[mickeysaver]

When I came out to June, who was my stepmother at the time, she said that it was ok that I was a lesbian, but that she didn't want me to be bi.

I found that to be even more odd when she in the process of divorcing my dad made a pass at me and proceeded to go off dating men and women. Maggie

 

[brendrek]

I came out to a co-worker. He said that's cool my sister is gay, then proceeds to tell me about how his parents threw her out of the house at 16 because of it. Nice!

 

[easleygrls]

I came out when I was 19. When I was about 25 my GF at the time had a conversation about me with my Mom. My Mom told her "I knew since she was about 13". I thought, yo, why didn't someone tell me??? It would have saved me years of hassle!

I don't know why she would've said she knew when I was that age. Maybe it was the 8X10 glossy of Kate Jackson on my wall?

 

[mickeysaver]

Oh, I have to tell you about this one!!!! I will try to keep this brief, but it takes a little set up......

Gabby and I met on the internet. So, it took some time before we actually moved to the same state, FL. I gave up my job and moved down to an apartment that she picked out for us. I attempted to find a job as a medical assistant down there, but OMG, they pay nothing and act like they are doing you a favor. So, when my former employer called me and offered to fly me up, put me up in a hotel, and still pay me to fill in for a few weeks, I jumped at the chance.

Well, in the 6 weeks that I had been gone, they had a huge turnover in office staff. Like there were 5 new faces out of 12 employees. One of the new faces was an LPN named Barbara, who was older and I soon found out had only been out of the psych ward for a matter of a couple of weeks when she was hired to work at our office. Barbara had issues. She cried at the drop of a hat. She was in her 50's, twice divorced from the same man, had just been kicked out of her HIV+ son's home, and was just having a lot of stuff to come to terms with.

Everyone was glad to see me return to work. I had patients telling me that I couldn't go back to FL. Near the end of the day, Barbara comes into the lab where I was working doing my usual gig of telephone triage and just starts sobbing. I asked her what was wrong, had I offended her, or what?

Barbara told me "Everytime I look at you, it reminds me that I can turn any man gay!" and just boo hoo'ed.

It took everything I had in me to behave....I really wanted to look at her and say "ISSUES!?!?!" It turns out that Barbara's twice ex hubby was gay and her son was bi. Maggie

 

[ConcKahuna]

I came out when I was 19. When I was about 25 my GF at the time had a conversation about me with my Mom. My Mom told her "I knew since she was about 13". I thought, yo, why didn't someone tell me??? It would have saved me years of hassle!

That's similar to my situation. My mom's friend had a daughter moving into town, and my mom wanted me to show her around. She asked me to bring her around to the clubs and what not. I said, "You're not trying to hook me up are you?" My mom said no. I said "Because you know I'm gay, right?" Her answer, "David, I've known that for years what do you think I am, stupid? I'm your mother!"

Barbara told me "Everytime I look at you, it reminds me that I can turn any man gay!" and just boo hoo'ed.

 

[dkostel]

Years after high school I came out to my best friend from high school after not seeing her for years. She asked if I was dating anyone, and I said yes and them hemmed & hawed about expanding on that. She pushed & I finally told her it was a woman. Without missing a beat she said "thank god, I thought you were going to say that you were dating some loser that we went to high school with."