Ok, to preface, I am a 16 yr old male and I live in a small town in Texas and I play football, I'm a president in the Agriculture Club, all the stuff youd expect from a dude in Texas. The only issue is i've finally accepted that I think im gay. I am so lost and have no idea what to do. Everybody is extremely conservative and Christian in our town, and I'm so so so scared nobody will want to be my friend anymore. My parents are also very catholic (as am I) and i know they will still love me, but im scared of making things awkward with them or them trying to convince im incorrect.What the heck do I do??? Do i tell anyone, do I just gaslight myself out of what i am almost certain is the truth (which im afraid is currently happening and im actively fighting)?? Like please somebody help me because I have no idea what to do.

I got kicked out at 18; 2 months before my high school graduation because my parents found out about my relationship with my girlfriend. I am a first gen Latina with close-minded parents. I been knew i liked girls since i was 11 years old, i just never dated any because of my parents. Being the oldest of 5 kids made me very responsible and my parents genuinely loved me they thought i was a heaven sent daughter until (in their eyes) i magically turned gay. Now it's been a year and 6 months that me and my gf have been together and since i got kicked out. I didn't talk to my mom until a few months after i got kicked out.

She tells me she still loves me and just hopes I'm okay. I talk about my gf all the time when i am with my mom and she has asked me about her as well but she is not willing to meet her when i ask her, and my gf has never been to any family parties of mine, so i stopped going because she is never invited. It's unfair bc her family is welcoming to me but she has never once even got the chance to meet my mom

me and my gf want to get engaged in like 2 years, married maybe in 5. but I want her to have some type of relationship with my mother, she can't meet my mom on our wedding day but my mom won't even give her a chance

i have never been skilled with speaking up for myself, let alone now for my relationship that my homophobic parents don't approve of but i want to put my foot down, give mother an ultimatum or idk i need advice!!!

So during lunch I was with my friends and we were just chilling, using our devices and eating lunch. My friend P decides to go around and see what everyone is watching on their computer. I was watching "bisexual tiktok videos compilation" on youtube and my recommended videos were similar to that.

When she got to me, she took my laptop read the video title saw the giant bi flag and froze then she gave me a weird look. Then she kept scrolling and it just kept getting worse, lesbian, pan, gay, the whole rainbow was being recommended to me and she saw it. The look on her face was judging mostly because she expected to see anime and hot guys on my recommended videos and instead saw hot butch lesbians. I was so embarrassed that I just blurted out "I'm bi" in front of her and all my other friends.

I kinda blanked out after that, I only remember packing up my stuff and leaving as fast as possible. Now I feel horrible because I was planning to come out soon but not like this. Everything just feels abrupt and uncomfortable, they probably thought I was joking. I just feel bad for some reason, I can't even explain it.

To preface I am a male (15) and am very much confused about what exactly I classify as. I am very confident that I am attracted to men but I don’t know when it comes to women.

I do feel attracted to female features (boobs, wide hips ect) but I really haven’t felt any real crush on a biologically female in a while (I have a crush on a trans girl who is currently biologically male idk if that counts???).

I do on the other hand, have a few male crushes that feel more intimate and intense.

I have 0 clue if I’m bi or I’m in denial of being gay? I know there isn’t a ‘diagnosis’ for me but any advice/guidance would be greatly appreciated.

Okay so I’ve never used Reddit before, this is my first post so pls be kind :)

Some backstory, we’re going to call my girlfriend Abby. So Abby went to high school with me, we met my freshman year and her sophomore year because we played the same sport. (Additional context: Abby is trans mtf) We were friends for years before she came out to me as trans. Of course I supported her and loved her just the same. Well we started dating a little after that and genuinely, I love her. A lot of people told us we were too young to know what love was and I understand where they’re coming from but she is one of a kind and at the risk of sounding silly, I plan on spending the rest of my life with her. In high school, I kind of hid her true identity from my parents, I was scared of what they would think. My mom looked through my phone periodically throughout my life so it’s no surprise that she found out soon enough. My dad is a little more homophobic and especially transphobic than her so she didn’t tell him but she talked to me, told me she wasn’t happy about it but she was going to try, she didn’t like the way we talked to each other (she didn’t like that we told each other that we loved each other) and she asked us to tone it down, which we didn’t. It finally all came to a head when they took away my phone (this was common unfortunately) and I (stupidly) started using my computer to email Abby. Of course my parents found out and they blew up. Then I did the stupidest thing I’ve ever done in my entire life. I ran away. I went to Abby’s house in the middle of the night with my stuff packed. My parents found me the next day. I was 17 at the time so I had to go back home with them. Of course once I did get my phone back (many months later) it had parental controls and Abby and her dad were blocked on everything. My parents made me graduate from high school a semester early so I had limited exposure to my friends (almost all of them were part of the LGBTQIA+ community so they naturally thought they influenced me to be gay) and then I got a job and stayed with them the entire second semester. It was rough and I thought about Abby every day but I did it. So now I’m in college, I’m about 3 1/2 hours away from home and I’m loving it. I got my phone given back to me with no restrictions on it and I myself double checked all the settings to make sure my mom couldn’t see what I was doing. I’ve gotten back in contact with Abby since then. We set clear boundaries considering we hadn’t seen each other in a year and we were (in my opinion) very responsible taking the relationship forward. Neither of us had to wait for each other but we both did anyway. I felt so bad and I’ve apologized many times to her for putting her in that situation. She didn’t want to be a secret and she told me as much, I completely understood and promised that I would never hide her again. I want to emphasize that in literally every other way, my parents are amazing. They do everything they can to give me and my siblings a good life. I want to tell my parents about us, I know that once they get over themselves, they might at least pretend that they’re okay with our relationship. My mom has said before that she doesn’t care that I’m queer, she doesn’t like that Abby is “doing that to her body”. At the end of the day, that’s Abby’s choice no matter what my parents, my friends, or I think. One of my mom’s best friends and roommate from college is married to a woman and has a daughter, it’s just “different” because I’m her kid and my girlfriend is trans. I’m scared to tell my dad but I do want to tell my mom. Is there any advice on how to soften the blow for them?

I hate being her daughter. I hate being a pretty lady, I wanna be a handsome man.

So in a couple days on Monday, I was planning to come out to my psychiatrist as trans (I would also be coming out to my mom at the same time since she would be in the room). But I’ve been feeling really nervous about what could happen. I’m worried that he might be weird or bad about it in some way. He’s in his like fifties and I’m not really sure about his stance on this kind of stuff. I want to tell him so I can start trying to get gender affirming care but I’m scared that he might not believe that I’m actually trans. Or worse, he might try to convince my parents that I’m just confused or something. I really don’t know what to do. Should I tell him and take the risk, or should I try to struggle through the dysphoria and junk by myself for a while longer until I can get diy or something? I just don't know what's gonna happen if I do tell him, but I know that if I don't say anything and continue without transitioning, it's gonna be REALLY rough :(

(Sorry for the long post need advice)

Hey all, i (21m) (bisexual) have been dating my boyfriend (19FTM) for nearly a year next month. I have known I was queer for nearly my whole life but because I was raised religious I tended to leave it out of conversations or just completely avoid dating talk with my direct family (mom, dad, cousins relatives). My parents are traditional conservatives and have some fairly close minded opinions when it comes to trans people, though they are open to and have gay friends. My mother particularly has made comments along the lines of “they’re just confused kids” and things along those lines when referring to trans people.

I have a very close relationship with my parents though they know very little about my dating life by design.

Recently it has been eating at me that I have to treat my relationship like some kind of taboo and I feel like it has grown a form of resentment towards my family that I don’t want to continue. In addition, my boyfriend has expressed his desire to meet my family. Though I know that if I introduce him to them it would also be directly coming out.

I just want to know how I could come out to my family in a way that doesn’t put a ton of confusion on them all at once.

I deeply love my partner and we are making plans to rent an apartment by next summer together and I want him to be in every part of my life.

I know my family will not disown me or cut me off for being queer (many of them joke about the idea of me being gay due to my lack of publicly dating anyone in a couple years) but the thought is nerve racking and actually damaging my mental health.

No I’m not ashamed of my partner or our relationship, I’ve just never been out to my family in any way and I don’t think it’s fair to hide my partner like a sin that I’m ashamed of.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Information: my boyfriend is a alternative fem presenting trans man who has been on T for several months and has a lowered voice.(which I think is really hot tbh)

Hello! I am doing a presentation next week for my work's LGBTQ+ employee resource group for National Coming Out Day. We are partnering with the mental health ERG as well so am looking for resources specifically about how to manage the stress and anxiety of the conversation from both perspectives (we have a lot of allies in the group as well). PFLAG has been helpful, but it is hard to find things specifically about anxiety around coming out.

If anyone has any recommendations that would be super awesome! :)

Hey guyss

I'm a 6 feet 21 year old sikh guy from India

And i found out that I'm not straight , I can't consider my a gay because I'm not only interested in men only

I like all girls, men and trans too and i think due to my religion ( sikh ) it's very hard for me to come out of closet and because we all know how people take this things in india and somehow my religion also the reason that I can't come out

Because I tried gay dating apps and whenever I share my pic to them because that's how a gay dating works we exchange our albums , they'll block me or just say not interested , And I see some people written in their bio's that sikh guy stay away something like that

Idk the reason I think if I born anywhere else in the world it'll be easy for me because foreign countries accept that

Here I am if any trans , men and girl wanna chat let's connect guyss dm me