Another family disagreement on sexuality

My sister started a conversation with me the other day about me not being ashamed of being gay. She said she doesn’t want any of her customers to know that I am gay. I told her that wasn’t any of her concern that I could tell whomever I wanted to tell. She said, “I don’t know what it is with gays in this family, you, my second oldest son, my daughter, your granddaughter and you all act like it’s something to be proud of.” I told her; she wasn’t putting me back into the closet no matter how hard she tried.

I was telling her how I met one of my boyfriends. I explained I was mowing yards in the neighborhood and this boy came over wearing clothes that were two sizes too small for him. Then I was told to meet him at his back door when I was finished. I knocked on his door he was naked, and he pulled me into his house. I was fourteen he was eleven. I asked my sister what I was supposed to do. She told me I should have run, I said “hell no he was gorgeous.”

Imagine the beautiful boy in the picture above is your son. You love him, then he tells you mom, I’m gay, I’d really like it if you bought me a dress. The he comes out to his classmates as gay. He is bullied and harassed at school all week, then he hangs himself. It has happened in Colorado. A nine-year-old boy hung himself in just that type of scenario.

My sister wants to gay shame her daughter, but I won’t let her. She is very hateful towards us who are LGBTQ+ in the family. She doesn’t want me discussing my sexuality at her job. Nor does she want her customer knowing I am gay. Sorry, but I will live my life without fear or favor. I don’t need her approval.