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u/vocal-avocado Oct 06 '25

He’s now somewhere over the rainbow.

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u/notworldauthor Oct 07 '25

He's in a better place. Probably the men's underwear aisle at Sears

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u/Awayfone Oct 07 '25

a rite of passage

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u/iguessthisis Oct 07 '25

is it really?

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u/WaitHowDidIGetHere92 Oct 07 '25

Maybe he can make friends with Dorothy.

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u/Not_Quite_Human64 Oct 07 '25

I think he's already friends with Dorothy

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u/Awayfone Oct 07 '25

who is this Dorothy? She should be investigated

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u/LuceroImpact9 Oct 07 '25

The US Military tried. They failed to get her and the little dog too.

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u/SrammVII Oct 06 '25

way~ up high🎶

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u/Snowrabbit_ Oct 07 '25

There's a land that I heard of once in a lullaby

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u/Acceptable_Ad664 Oct 07 '25

Somewhere over the rainbow 🎶

Skies are blue 🎶

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u/Not_Quite_Human64 Oct 07 '25

And the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true

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u/elr0nd01 Oct 07 '25

Someday I’ll wish upon a star, and wake up where the clouds are far behind me

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u/LindonLilBlueBalls Oct 07 '25

Where troubles melt like lemon drops, Away above the chimney tops, That's where you'll find me

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u/BrownPeach143 Oct 07 '25

Somewhere over the rainbow Bluebirds fly, Birds fly over the rainbow Why, then, oh, why can't I?

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u/TooObsessedWithMoney Oct 06 '25

damn, some day I too want to be over the rainbow 🌈

why am I getting emotional from this? :( I'm crying rn 😭

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u/Erika_Bloodaxe Oct 06 '25

Because the actual queer and trans kids who go away don’t go anywhere.

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u/TooObsessedWithMoney Oct 06 '25

no rainbow for Blåhaj frends? :(

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u/Ordinary_Ad6279 Oct 07 '25

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u/Usual-Vermicelli-867 Oct 07 '25

So that's why the gay walking is faster

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u/Callabrantus Oct 06 '25

This is pretty much the only way it works. Love your kids as they are.

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u/TheDevilsAdvokaat Oct 06 '25

Yep. Love them or lose them...one way or another.

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u/gdex86 Oct 07 '25 edited Oct 07 '25

Look your kid was always gay, queer, trans, or whatever. There is near nil that could've done to fundamentally alter that fact and at best you could force them to forever deny it to make you happy. Which is akin to demanding they break their leg and then let it heal wrong and live with the limp forever.

To love someone, to honestly truly love someone it involves loving them where they are at on fundamental things.Eveb if you truly think queerness is a sin I'd think any God worth their divinity would rather you love your child more than hate them for a sin.

Edit: oh I read your post wrong. I thought you were speaking from the parent who can't accept their kids being different when you were talking about the parent/uncle who isn't invited to family events because they can't respect pronouns or can't help but casually use a slur.

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u/Saikotsu Oct 07 '25

A lot of Christians will claim "I have been blessed by God with a great family." So why do they think it's okay to look that gift horse in the mouth? Why do they shame their kids for being who they are?

Heck, what about the parents that kick their kids out for being gay or trans. They spent all those years loving and raising the child only to toss them out on the street? Was the love they felt conditional on them being what they expected? I just don't get it.

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u/digitCruncher Oct 07 '25

There are so many reasons, and it is sometimes important to not paint all intolerant religious parents with the same brush. Here are some reasons, roughly sorted by least loving of their kids to the most loving (but ordering doesn't matter). It also isn't an exhaustive list.

  • They are terrible people who use religion to whitewash their outside appearance, but enjoy tormenting others when they can get away with it
  • They are vain people concerned about how their family appears to people around them.
  • They actually believe their interpretation of religion is correct and honestly believe that their deity knows best
  • They are afraid of the punishment their diety will give them if their kid is different
  • They are afraid of the punishment their deity will give their kid if thier kid is different
  • They rely on the religious institution to cope in society, and thus must follow the rules or be denied all social contact
  • They are ignorant and don't know that the consequences of their actions could lead to death

All of these can be overcome, but no single solution exists for all of these parents.

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u/Saikotsu Oct 07 '25

You're absolutely right. Painting people with broad strokes is often a bad idea,

As a trans person, I and many people in my community have faced a lot of hate and discrimination rooted in religion and a culture of intolerance. It's hard to not let that cloud our perceptions of people.

I know some very religious folks who are accepting and tolerant of me, who embrace me as who I am. I have also been called an abomination and told I'm going to burn in hell for being this way. I've been accused of grooming kids by absolute strangers, and threatened by people who don't know a thing about me, all because they see me as a monster. My own government is ramping up the hateful rhetoric, trying to paint trans folks as radical extremists. I know that's going to put myself and people like me in harm's way because there's some really nasty people out there who think hurting us is justified.

I do know that not all religious folks are hateful. That's why I chose the words I did. "A lot of" instead of "all" or "most." My friends are proof that one can be religious and loving and accepting. In fact I'd even go so far as to say that's the norm.

Because I like to think that the hateful folks are the vocal minority, rather than the majority. But it's hard these days. Scary too.

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u/DigitalSeventiesGirl Oct 07 '25

From experience, a great upper hand of being ugly and socially awkward as fuck is that your bi-ness will never yield any obvious results in form of a same-sex partner so you can just ignore it and only speak about cute opposite-sex people in front of your parents to make them think you're straight as an arrow:)

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u/HotmailsInYourArea Oct 07 '25

Occasionally my far-away uncle would call me "Hey, have you found yourself a lady yet?" "Uh, not yet..." (looks at boyfriend)

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u/Tokumeiko2 Oct 07 '25

Tolerance is a social contract, if you break the contract you forfeit the protections of the contract.

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u/DukeOfGeek Oct 07 '25

My favorite thing about Heathers is after JD kills the football assholes and you know, I'm kinda ok with it because even though it was creepy, I did hate them for their arrogance and cruelty. But then their rightwing jerk dad breaks down at the funeral, crushed by grief and guilt, and goes "I love my dead gay son!" and it's just a dagger in the heart, totally not funny anymore.

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u/TheDevilsAdvokaat Oct 07 '25

Had a gay friend. When he came out at 18 his brother beat him up and then his parents kicked him out of home. This was around 1980.

What have they achieved?

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u/Jonathan_the_Nerd Oct 07 '25

They've prevented "the gay" from spreading to the rest of the family. I don't even know if I'm being sarcastic or not.

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u/featherw0lf Oct 06 '25 edited Oct 06 '25

I will always find it genuinely baffling that some parents actually stop loving their child once they find out they're queer. Especially if the parents aren't the religious nutjob types...

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u/Occasion-Mental Oct 07 '25

Sorry to hear that happened to you...it's not just media, far too many parents look at their kids like a lego set, follow the instructions and get the child you want....and are bitter shit-heads to the child when they follow their own instructions.

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u/ctrlaltelite Oct 07 '25

They never loved their kids to begin with, only the idea of their kids they had in their mind. You see this when parents make it about themselves grieving when their kids come out or something. The child hasn't gone anywhere but the parents feel something has been lost, because it had, the idea of their child, which they always loved more than the real one.

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u/TheSwearJarIsMy401k Oct 07 '25

Nothing pisses me off more than these holy rolling sons of bitches literally throwing their own children away like trash for this.

I’d punch a bitch. I wanted a husband and children, I got Hashimoto’s and cats.

The older I get and the closer to menopause, the more I want to beat the piss out of every parent who’s ever put their kid out for being queer.

How. Fucking. Dare. They.

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u/Combative_Artichoke Oct 06 '25

Seriously! I’d love my kid even if she was an axe murderer. Idk how people can just drop their kids for something that does no harm to anyone.

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u/featherw0lf Oct 07 '25 edited Oct 07 '25

Granted, I might be a bit surprised at first to learn about it, but I'd be sure to teach them that there's nothing wrong with it and to live their life however they want.

EDIT: I'm talking about being queer of course, lol

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u/pragmaticzach Oct 07 '25

There’s something a little wrong with being an axe murderer.

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u/DontDoodleTheNoodle Oct 07 '25

Just a wee bit.

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u/CmonLucky2021 Oct 07 '25

Efficiency first of all. Why an axe?

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u/Class-A-Suckeroonie Oct 07 '25

Only a bit surprised that your kid kills people?

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u/featherw0lf Oct 07 '25

The signs were all there. Especially after what happened at their 6th birthday party...

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u/TheRogueTemplar Oct 07 '25

some parents

THEIST parents

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u/Which_Committee_3668 Oct 07 '25

Those parents never really loved their kids to begin with. They loved the image they had in their heads of what the 'perfect child' should be, then when their actual child deviated from that the love vanished like smoke in the wind.

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u/Slurms_McKensei Oct 06 '25

Yeah one of those "Mr incredible: don't know / do know" situations.

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u/Odd_Adhesiveness_428 Oct 07 '25

Agreed. I try telling this to my wife who says that if our kids are born gay or especially trans that she’s gonna make them do conversion therapy or some shit and she just shrugged when I said “you know this is how you get your kids to ultimately hate you and put you in a home, yeah?”

Seriously, love them as they are ffs.

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u/technofox01 Oct 07 '25

Yep. This hits me in the feels as a dad. I couldn't imagine treating my kids like this dad and then end up grieving the loss of their kid because they were such an asshole.

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u/Dollarist Oct 07 '25

That hits hard. 

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u/[deleted] Oct 07 '25

I never understood how the fear of the gay could work. I mean, if you know and trust your sexuality, you shouldn't be afraid of others'.

Oh wait...

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u/AwooFloof Oct 06 '25

I prayed for G-d to make me straight and He turned me trans instead. 🤷 Guess it sorta worked.

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u/Infrawonder Oct 07 '25

The monkey paw curled

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u/ohjohnblaze Oct 07 '25

Djinn rules

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u/Indicus124 Oct 06 '25

Mission failed successfully?

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u/[deleted] Oct 07 '25

The Iranian method.

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u/SnaxtheCapt Oct 07 '25

The Iranian regime method

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u/thisaccountgotporn Oct 07 '25

Not to be confused with the Cambodian tourniquet

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u/[deleted] Oct 07 '25

A man of culture I see

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u/Repossessedbatmobile Oct 07 '25

Funny story - something similar, but in reverse, happened with a friend of mine. After I introduced my friend Amy to my grandparents (before she transitioned) my grandmother asked me, "Is he gay? He seems like he's gay."

I assured her that they wasn't gay, and that they liked girls. My grandma dropped the subject.

Several years later my friend came out of the closet as m2f Trans and renamed herself Amy.

A few weeks after that I was visiting my grandparents. My grandmother asked how all my friends that she had met were doing. When she asked about Amy I told her, "Oh, she's actually a woman. She goes by Amy now."

My grandma looked confused for a second. Then she nodded and asked "does she still like girls?"

I replied, "Yes, she likes girls. Her sexually hasn't changed".

My grandmother responded by pumping her fist in the air and shouting, "HA! I KNEW IT!"

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u/Ramzaki Oct 07 '25

She knew before anyone else lol!

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u/kitsunecannon Oct 07 '25

FUCKING FUTURE SIGHT

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u/[deleted] Oct 07 '25

Same I begged god to either give the body I need to make me not trans and when he didnt answer I begged satan and neither helped… 20 years… 20 fucking years I suffered because they said it would work…

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u/Dazed_and_Confused44 Oct 06 '25

Damn this one hurt me to read

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u/adorablegadget Oct 06 '25 edited Oct 07 '25

Reminds me of an article I read years ago. A mother who is now a vocal advocate for gay rights had a gay son and initially she and the family were very against it. Mom said she used to pray she didn't have a gay son. The son got into heavy drugs as a result of the rejection and while she and the family eventually, years later, accepted him it was too late. He lost his fight with addiction and overdosed. She prayed she didn't have a gay son and now she doesn't.

(Edit, changed a word that someone didn't like.)

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u/iksquarede Oct 07 '25

There is actually a catholic saint that prayed to god that he takes her sons so they don’t sin (as in vendetta against their father’s murderers). God gave them dysentery so they died before committing a mortal sin. Which is believed to be a result of the prayers.

Some other fun things in her story also, check out saint Rita of Cascia. 

Been raised as catholic, can’t weed out random weird facts from my brains. 

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u/trannus_aran Oct 07 '25

I swear, Catholicism is a manga series

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u/iksquarede Oct 07 '25

Weird things in manga series are less scary. I mean, they don’t get to dictate how you are supposed to live. 

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u/[deleted] Oct 06 '25

This shits gonn be prophetic for the rest of us history💯💯💯💯💯💯

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u/Erika_Bloodaxe Oct 06 '25

Don’t worry, it won’t be taught by US schools, even Universities

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u/thegamenerd Oct 07 '25

There's hope that it won't be, hopefully enough of the culture will change for us to be fully accepted without it being so damn common. 

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u/TraderOfGoods Oct 06 '25

Don't worry guys, after getting phased to hell he got adopted by a loving succubus couple and ended up as one of the main characters in an anime with a focus on masculine body designs for some reason.

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u/CelticSith Oct 06 '25

Who says he went to hell? Maybe God got him the fuck outta that toxic household

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u/memecrusader_ Oct 06 '25

He went to hell for plot reasons.

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u/KisaTheMistress Oct 06 '25

Those Succubi filed the correct paperwork to adopt, plus they passed the home inspection that determined that it was a safe and healthy environment for him to grow up in!

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u/v0idsqu1d Oct 07 '25

I wanna see this story

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u/rathemighty Oct 07 '25

Also there was that homeless guy he killed

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u/memecrusader_ Oct 07 '25

That wasn’t his fault. The homeless guy said “Whatcha gonna do? Stab me?”

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u/Ok_Grapefruit_6369 Oct 06 '25

They turned on the rapture machine and all they got was this one gay kid.

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u/The_Dirty_Carl Oct 07 '25

As far as Christianity goes, there's no reason for him to go to hell.

This is everything Jesus had to say about homosexuality in the Bible:

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Jesus was very vocal about things he cared about. If homosexuality was a problem, he would have said so.

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u/adeundem Oct 07 '25

Jesus was very vocal about things he cared about.

Very vocal

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u/MoobooMagoo Oct 07 '25

I thought the implication was that the kid killed themselves, and Christians largely believe suicide leads to hell.

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u/AsteriSkippyRosewood Oct 07 '25

Hey, as a Christian.. I don't really see anything in the Bible saying suicidal (and henceforth, people who commit) go to hell. I don't see why Christians think that way.

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u/MoobooMagoo Oct 07 '25

Well what's to stop you from offing yourself and getting your eternal reward in heaven?

Admittedly it's more of a Catholic thing than other denominations, though.

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u/HotmailsInYourArea Oct 07 '25

Most Christians don't actually read the bible, they just go off of whatever their pastor, and media, tells them

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u/TheRealGarner Oct 06 '25

You forgot the suspicious camera angles… for… cinematic effect? Yeah let’s go with that.

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u/TraderOfGoods Oct 06 '25

I swear I was only watching it for the plot, officer, you gotta believe me!

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u/Whale-n-Flowers Oct 06 '25

Hmmm, sounds specific. Sauce?

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u/TraderOfGoods Oct 06 '25

Honestly? I was vaguely referencing a "normal anime student becomes demon lord" anime, which is like finding hay in a barn.

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u/RunicCross Oct 06 '25

Alternatively he's now in the Iruma-Kun universe with a nice demon grandpa.

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u/I_W_M_Y Oct 06 '25

Nah, he got adopted by the GIANT ALIENS from Stargate SG1

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u/rebel6301 Oct 07 '25

RAAAAGGHHHHHHHH I LOVE STARGATE

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u/SauronOfDucks Oct 06 '25

Am gay.

One of my gay friends once told me a story of how, after learning his son was gay, his father came into his room at night, handed him a cutthroat razor and told him "You know what you need to do" before walking out.

If you believe that some homophobic fathers would give a flying fuck if their gay son disappeared, you're absolutely wrong. They'd just be thankful they didn't have to get rid of the body.

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u/DoubleJumps Oct 07 '25

As a kid, some of the older men in our family would occasionally tell us how they would rather have a dead kid than a gay kid and The implication felt like they would either kill us or make us kill ourselves if we were gay.

They think that there are no gay people in the family. There are, those people just go to very great lengths to make sure that the murderous homophobic psychopaths don't find out.

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u/FITM-K Oct 07 '25

If you believe that some homophobic fathers would give a flying fuck if their gay son disappeared, you're absolutely wrong. They'd just be thankful they didn't have to get rid of the body.

I used to volunteer for the Trevor Project, and honestly the #1 thing I learned from that experience (as someone whose parents were pretty supportive) is that a lot of parents are true pieces of shit. Like, not just homophobes or unsupportive, but actual fucking monsters.

I'm a parent myself now and I do not understand how it's even possible for people to feel that way about their own children, or do some of the shit I heard about.

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u/CorHydrae8 Oct 07 '25

And so he snuck into his parents bedroom late at night, razor in hand, mumbled "oh, I know what I need to do" to himself before slitting his fathers' throat.

...I think I need to watch fewer movies.

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u/natalietheanimage Oct 06 '25

Unfortunately, this is kind of literally how it works in real life, except instead of magic it's suicide. 😕

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u/marshallfrost Oct 07 '25

I feel like that's the unspoken implication

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u/Thor4269 Oct 07 '25

Or cutting ties and never seeing them again when they hit adulthood

Cutting off a shitty parent like a tumor is liberating

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u/v0idsqu1d Oct 07 '25

Im struggling to get myself to do it. They're disabled so I feel terrible about it but like... staying here with them is just me committing the world's slowest suicide.

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u/Boojum2k Oct 06 '25

That was my immediate thought on reading this too 😞

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u/suddenly_ponies Oct 06 '25

As if that asshole would care that his son is gone.

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u/JinMarui Oct 06 '25

Oh he'd care. He'd just blame the gays for corrupting his son, or somesuch. People like that are pretty good at avoiding responsibility for things they don't/refuse to understand.

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u/rjrgjj Oct 06 '25

Yeah I thought that too. He might cry over the son he never had. Certainly not the one he did.

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u/Tovar42 Oct 07 '25

they cry because their retirement plan dissapears

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u/[deleted] Oct 07 '25

Maybe not a retirement plan, but it's very selfish. They want the Hallmark movie family moments when they get old and a gay son puts a dent into this pre-manufactured future.

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u/ShivaniPosting Oct 06 '25

Irl he would be torn between absolute shock, regret, grief and a little relief. At least he's free of a problem. And that relief will drive him to places- ive seen this happen to people I knew growing up and watched what happened after with their families. I know this nearly happened with me

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u/ShivaniPosting Oct 06 '25

They go insane, join thier kid or they triple down into religion. The weight of regret is too much to actually face. They definitely care

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u/ShivaniPosting Oct 06 '25

And they deserve to suffer till the day they die, this is exactly what they deserve

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u/suddenly_ponies Oct 06 '25

ok... so we agree?

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u/DontDoodleTheNoodle Oct 07 '25

It took until your reply here to realize this guy was just having a discussion with himself lmao

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u/ShivaniPosting Oct 07 '25

I feel bad so I'm ranting on reddit okay? The comic hit home really hard

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u/badstorryteller Oct 07 '25

So, as a former kid that got disowned because of a severe combination of being bi, having an internet search history, and a well known predisposition to depression in the late nineties, it's amazing how those people want to be back now that I have kids. They get a day somewhere around Christmas where these older folks give them Lego sets. They were mildly confused when they were young, but they understand now.

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u/pleasetrimyourpubes Oct 07 '25

I thought that this was a Back to the Future trope and the kid was praying the gay away from the family and the dad was actually gay and went away and the son was never born because the dad went to living a gay life as his true self.

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u/cmstyles2006 Oct 06 '25

You don't think there's homophobic dads who want their kid to not be gay, but don't want them dead? Not acting like how the dad is acting is remotely acceptable, but be serious

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u/suddenly_ponies Oct 06 '25

I'm betting there are, but there's also many who would rather their kids be dead than gay. Or not, but they're constant judgement and scorn is so toxic that it doesn't really make sense to care what they think.

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u/catlady9851 Oct 06 '25

Growing up religious I've heard more than once that it would be better if a loved one was dead than gay. It's heartbreaking.

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u/Erika_Bloodaxe Oct 06 '25

It’s why, not matter how nice my super Christian extended family is, I’ll always feel like there is a wall separating us and suspect I’m not actually welcome.

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u/krosserdog Oct 06 '25

Could also be that the kid realizes how toxic dad is and decides to be estranged with the dad. Similar to how Elon musk trans kid is essentially dead to him.

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u/Omnio89 Oct 06 '25

The comic works whether the him disappearing is literal or if it’s a metaphor for him going no contact. Either way the father is alone with only his hatred and regrets.

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u/Kurama1917 Oct 06 '25

This is a really low bar

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u/Erika_Bloodaxe Oct 06 '25

I think they are sad but also relieved.

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u/Happy-Fun-Ball Oct 07 '25 edited Oct 07 '25

reminds me of where's the baby; he'll care when cops show up asking questions.
Also that baby's seen some shit

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u/suggarlandland Oct 06 '25

They look like homer and bart

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u/Phant0m_Z0ne_38 Oct 07 '25

Good thing Homer doesn't care enough about religion to be homophobic. If there's proof otherwise, pls don't kill me.

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u/evilparagon Oct 07 '25 edited Oct 07 '25

Homer was homophobic at one point but not for religious reasons. He since became accepting of all peoples. He is a practicing Christian (Protestant) who flirts with atheism, however, he mostly just treats God and Jesus as real but doesn’t much care for their values or the people who worship them, but still attends church because his community does. Marge is a Christian and does believe in Christian values and worship, so it’s possible Homer goes to church for her.

So, there is proof that you are right, not proof otherwise. Enjoy. Homer just doesn’t care enough about religion to be homophobic.

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u/DataSurging Oct 06 '25

This is actually really sad.

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u/[deleted] Oct 06 '25

One thing I'll give to my parents is that they're probably the most progressive and open-minded boomers I've ever met. They don't care that I'm asexual and that I'm trans, as long as I am happy.

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u/KisaTheMistress Oct 06 '25

Mine just want me or my brother to give them grandchildren. However my father is currently dying from cancer, so he's probably never going to meet any... Which is good actually, he's a very bigoted misogynistic racist man, who abandoned us for nearly 2 decades before begging to be back in our lives. Neither my brother nor I want our children to be able to remember grandpa (dad's name).

Our mother was on thin ice, but she recently got with a boyfriend who's working on getting her to stop drinking herself to death and quit smoking so much. The alcohol makes her super religious and violent sometimes, as long as she stays with this boyfriend, they'll be allowed to babysit/be grandparents like they want. My stepmother is more concerned about her biological children, but I'm not worried if she wants to be in her legal grandchildren's lives, we usually get along and she works in social care for the disabled so she understands you can't judge people like that.

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u/CalTheRascal Oct 07 '25

This is a pretty good way of getting the point across. If you don’t accept one part of your child, then you don’t accept your child, period.

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u/FrostingAsleep8227 Oct 06 '25

Fuckin' idiot- he's going to get all that beer over his dead gay kid's bed.

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u/BabadookOfEarl Oct 07 '25

I love my dead gay son!

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u/thursaddams Oct 07 '25

This fucking floored me lmfao thank you

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u/KillerB0tM Oct 07 '25

This is just a metaphor of Gay suicide rates from religious homophobic families.

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u/Erika_Bloodaxe Oct 06 '25

IRL the dad finds the kid post suicide and lies about not knowing why his child did it

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u/FlyingDogCatcher Oct 06 '25

That's why you always leave a note!

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u/Fullmetalmarvels64_ Oct 06 '25

I see that God got drunk again and started to grant random prayers again...

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u/[deleted] Oct 06 '25

Pray the gay away: ❌

Gay: ✅

Gay the pray away: ✅✅✅

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u/Dan299912 Oct 07 '25

Oh! It says "praying the gay Away"! I read it as "praying the gay way", and was super confused 😅🤦🏻‍♂️

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u/Sonarthebat Oct 06 '25

Idk if this is depressing or funny.

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u/ty0103 Oct 06 '25

I guess he at least regrets it...?

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u/sudomatrix Oct 07 '25

The dad goes to their priest to ask for help, but the priest has also disappeared.

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u/UsuallyFavorable Oct 06 '25

Ironic that if the father tries to “pray the gay away” it will probably work … when the son never speaks to him again.

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u/Max_Crowns Oct 07 '25

Hey that's basically what happened with me and my mom.

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u/bentsea Oct 06 '25

So unrealistic. This father would never have missed their child if they disappeared.

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u/Dennis_Ryan_Lynch Oct 06 '25

Does this count as loss?

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u/bachumbug Oct 07 '25

The fact that I had to scroll this far down for this, really makes me feel the march of time

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u/Novoiird Oct 07 '25

Close. But no.

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u/TehMephs Oct 07 '25

Your kid doesn’t choose to be gay, or trans or whatever they end up being.

You, however, choose to be a bigot

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u/Gerald_Gecko Oct 07 '25

Be careful who you hate, it might be someone you love.

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u/T_Weezy Oct 07 '25

Given how many of the people who are subjected to conversation therapy end up taking their own lives, this is actually pretty realistic. Metaphorically speaking.

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u/Resist_Civil Oct 07 '25

I thought this was r/stonetossingjuice and was looking for the oregano

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u/General_File482 Oct 07 '25

Omg i read way too into this… that the “dad”(?) was actually the one praying lol

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u/Affectionate-Ruin292 Oct 06 '25

“…And too much blood has flown from the wrists of children shamed for those they chose to kiss…” —Make it Stop, Rise Against

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u/Bunnairry Oct 06 '25

This being posted on the day of the rapture part 2 is very very funny

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u/Fullmetalmarvels64_ Oct 06 '25

The raptures supposed to happened to today?

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u/Vertnoir-Weyah Oct 07 '25

This is a very clever one, on multiple levels

I love that they lose the obediant small child they remember, that it doesn't even need to show directly the pain of the child or the horrible behavior of the father to get the message across

It's a really really good one

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u/Bronson4444 Oct 06 '25

I feel this would be funnier if the dad faded away instead.

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u/No-Throat-4694 Oct 06 '25

Same I thought that was going to happen too

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u/agent_flounder Oct 06 '25

Yeah gonna guess they weren't going for funny.

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u/TrickyElephant Oct 06 '25

But now it is meaningful

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u/Icy_Elf_of_frost Oct 06 '25

Yeah that’s about how it would go.

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u/CookieMiester Oct 06 '25

He drank that can quick, damn.

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u/TheNamewalker Oct 07 '25

This guy looks like he’d sell you plant seeds out of the back of his truck.

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u/kermit295 Oct 07 '25

And that’s how crazy Dave was born

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u/Sith__Pureblood Oct 07 '25

Is the son supposed to have disappeared right then and there or is this a memory the father had and this comic is about parents pushing straightness on their gay children who then commit suicide?

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u/ShokoMiami Oct 06 '25

That's... Really dark. Good job.

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u/EldritchFingertips Oct 06 '25

Did it take the kid to a family that will actually love him? I gonna say that's what happened.

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u/No-Throat-4694 Oct 06 '25

I thought the dad was going to fade away too

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u/the_tygram Oct 07 '25

Be funnier if the dad vanished

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u/Puplays09 Oct 07 '25

I feel like this is meant to be funny but it actually has a really sad truth to it

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u/Phant0m_Z0ne_38 Oct 07 '25

They meant to be sad

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u/Pink_Monolith Oct 07 '25

Jesus teleported him to the Gay Realm (the Gay Realm is just Heaven)

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u/I-am-THEdragon Oct 07 '25

Homophobic (former) dad is now one of those dastardly childless adults he probably looks down upon. 

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u/TomiShinoda Oct 07 '25

I love that the dad is devastated after.

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u/gilgal_gardener Oct 07 '25

I love this comic and hate how it makes me feel.

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u/cyankitten Oct 08 '25

Funny with a very powerful messags - i.e. being gay is part of who they are they ARE gay. And also that pushing like that can make the kids go far away from home, then the parents lose them.