"Just Out Of The Closet"

"...Just Out Of The Closet..."

I have just come out to everybody, not even one and one-half weeks ago. I told my parents (well my dad and step-mom) on my step-mom's birthday. They took it well I thought, but then after about a week it began to change. My dad told me I was doing something dangerous and told me I was going to get infected with AIDS. Well since my stepbrother (straight) is the one having all of the sex with the girls that have had it with every boy at school. I figured he would get that talk, not me. But I also got the "psychiatrist" talk. My father wants to make me see one, to change me. That won't happen. I went through therapy on my own coming out, and I have made my decision. My friends were all okay with it except from one of them. The one was a boyfriend of mine who doesn't accept me...

He just ignores it and pretends it isn't there. But I love my friend, my best friend. I love him more than anything in the world. He means everything to me. When I told him I was lesbian, it didn't even phase him. So I confessed my feelings for him. But now he doesn't talk to me as much, or hang out with me, and we have grown distant. And now my friends are starting to think more and more about it and are starting to reject me. I have been lesbian for a very long time, it is just that no one ever knew it. And now people act as if I am a completely different person. I am no longer Angela (that's me!). I am some weirdo faggot who is probably raping young girls and trying on my cousin's clothes (imagine!). Okay, I like girls, so why would I want to be a boy? And I like girls, so why would I want to date a girl who acts like a boy? Then I could just date a boy...!!! No! I don't wear pantyhose and high heels. I wouldn't even think of it...!!! 

But now people automatically assume that I do or will. If you are reading this, please be more accepting of lesbian girls. They are probably more normal than you, and I guarantee you know someone who is, you just don't know they are. But that's okay, it doesn't mean they're a different person. And if you are a parent, don't try to change your child. Leave them alone. If they want to be straight they will, but if you try to force them, they'll hate you. Oh, and don't force them to go to college everyday, that's what made me hate my father. You are who you are, and you don't chose to be that way. Make sense? Well the same applies for lesbian people. Lesbian isn't a life-style or big change. It is a characteristic, just like the fact that you may have big ears! If you are not lesbian, you will never fully understand it. So just accept it knowing that you won't be able to understand it, but you can learn from it...