(September 2, 2016 at 5:44 pm)drfuzzy Wrote: My brother and I told our parents were were gay. They told us never to darken the door again . . . unless we got married and begged the church for forgiveness.
I was told it would help if I also showed up pregnant. This was 1988. I spotted them briefly at my Grandfather's funeral. They left before it was over.
My Father died. I didn't learn about it until 4 months after it happened.
But ATHEIST???? Oh, that's much worse. Much, much worse. After all, true belief in SkyRapistDaddy is supposed to cure the nasty queers of their demon possession.
(I wondered more than once what would happen if I showed up pregnant and told 'em I was still a virgin and god was the father.)
That must've been hell... and maybe still is
It just makes me so angry, not to mention confused, how parents could do that. It reminds me of a storyline in the UK version of Queer As Folk where the extremely camp Alexander is completely ignored and blanked by his parents, and when they are forced to talk... when his father dies... all his mother wants to talk to him for is so that he can sign over his share of the will. It made my blood boil watching that and your story makes it positively molten I don't know how I'd ever deal with that situation without hating them back, it would tear me apart otherwise.
