Shandelle Kendraa
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Dear Mom, I'm Gay.
Dear Mom, I’ve never told you this before but it’s time that you knew. I’m gay. Well, not gay as in I just like women. I like men and women. I’m bisexual and non binary. I’ve kept this from you for so long because I was always scared of disappointing you. As your eldest child, I always felt an incredible amount of pressure to keep you happy and live up to whatever expectations that set out for me — get a job and get a decent post secondary education. While I was never the best with my grades and schooling, I was always scared of disappointing you. Your constant comments about the LGBT community and how anyone who wasn’t heterosexual was constantly going through a phase were never met with deaf ears. I would hear every snide comment and passing joke that you would make at the expense of a community who is constantly bashed for something that they can’t control hurt a lot more than I would ever admit to. Knowing that you held a disdain for people who are just trying their best to be accepted in the heteronormative society and just try and get by in their day to day lives while facing discrimination purely based on their sexual preferences, what gender they were or the gender of their partner made me all the more afraid. Afraid of disappointing you further.
By Shandelle Kendraa2 years ago in Families