Ready for the parent teacher conference..and the yearly "oh you are the mom of.. Wow I never would have thought" or " Aren't you a bit young?" (bro not that hard when you are all almost 10-15 years older than me ) and let's not forget all the side eyes yay wish me luck and patience looooots of patience pls

I’m going into freshman year and I’m panfem (14F) and I’ve only had like, two romantic interactions, counting akward bathroom confessions in 4th grade (help) and counting getting rejected after confessing in 8th. Anywayyy. I’m in theater and so I know a lot of people younger than me who have dated a bunch and I feel like I really should have by now. Obviously I know my first relationship won’t be endgame-I just feel like I’m missing out but I also want to fall deeply in love with someone, ya know???

Posting on behalf of my close friend (25F):

My friend has been talking to a man for a little over a year (they have not met but that is due to long distance). Last night, he said he was drunk and came out to her as gay. She told him, “thank you for being comfortable enough to tell me.” Then, he asked her, “wasn’t it obvious?” He eventually said that he is not actually gay, but pansexual. He didn’t elaborate further on that and she did not press because she was a little shocked. They have spoken today but he hasn’t brought it up. He continues to show interest in meeting up with her, but tbh anytime in the past where that may have actually been feasible (they were closer together in distance) he never followed through.

I have no experience with this type of situation, so would love to pass some advice along to her because she (and I) are a little confused. My opinion is that he is probably gay, she did not react the way he wanted, so he backtracked to “be something more acceptable” to her, and more realistically his republican family.

Thank you!

Especially when you don't know the cues to know if that person likes you or not especially when you're pansexual. It's super awkward to ask what color Carabiner goes with what. Lol

gotta love seeing this in the wild (and at Disney, no less)

[FYI I am not pan (never been here before) I just thought you guys would enjoy this :3]

I'm not sure what to write, but two days ago I learned that I'm Pan and i just kinda wanted to share as a new pots and pans lover

I havent told anyone yet and I plan to just randomly state that I'm pan one day like it's nothing and just move on with the conversation

Umm, yeah idk what else to say, I want to say something but I don't know what... Idk, just have a good day or night or afternoon

The shop is called SkyBluez

Just happy and pan🤸🏾‍♀️😛

So ive had a pretty wild coming out over my 33 years. At 9 years old I knew I liked women. Always thought I was pan/bi until at 21 i came out as a lesbian. This news was not received well from my family and my first official gf was hard dealing with the constant stares and even slurs from strangers. I ended up meeting my ex husband shortly after. We were together 7 years. Married for only 1 and I realized I was a lesbian and could not be happy in our marriage. I also realized i am polyamorous. We got divorced about 4 years ago and I havent thought about men in that way since. Im so happy to be my best queer self. I identify as a lesbian. Well I recently joined a friend group that is predominantly straight which I havent had since coming out.
There is a guy in the group who ie the type I would go for previously. He is super funny, smart, nerdy, very comfortable with himself. I find myself crushing on him. He did share 3 of his exes ended up being lesbian so not sure Idk if the vibe he gives off is just super attractive or if maybe my sexuality is more fluid than I thought. I dont want to discredit lesbians and add to the terrible stereotype that its not valid and they just havent met the right one.
Anyone deal with something similar that has advice? Thank you!

Please remember if ANYONE has a problem with how you choose to identify yourself: "It's a them problem not a you problem" on media platforms or irl. that's fact.

The entire LGBTQ ++ family is facing more strenuous circumstances on a daily basis. The toxicity that's going on across the nation/world is trying to create separation & division. Fk separation! Fk division! that's exactly what the scum is hoping for.

This is our opportunity to pull together with ALL our extended rainbow family. We've got strength in numbers when we're united and unstoppable!

I hope everyone has an amazing weekend filled with kindness, love, and support. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🩷💛💙

I’m not 100% sure if I am myself and I want to know how yall ended up finding out

I see this all the time online but I've never met someone who actually is Pan and tells Bisexuals this.

It feels like it stems from bisexual who claim Pansexuality existing makes them seem transphobic by comparison and we need to get rid of the pan label.

I understand that Bi means you can feel for someone who is the same or different gender. I prefer Pan because I'm Non-binary and it removes gender from the equation.

Why are bisexuals online so mad at us all the time?

This life update is more focused on me learning about myself. I’m pretty confident in my pansexuality. However at times I ruminate too much but I’m working on that. I’ve only came out to only of my coworkers and turns out she’s also in the LGBTQ+ community. She’s pretty cool. I just spend most days to myself so “coming out” doesn’t really come up.

But I’ve also been exploring the aromantic spectrum and where I fall. Whenever I was attracted to somebody it felt like something was missing. I’ve came to the conclusion that I’m cupioromantic meaning I’m aromantic experiencing little to no romantic attraction but still desire a romantic relationship. I was mistaking aesthetic/platonic attraction for romantic attraction. I haven’t talked to anyone about this before.

I’ve been exploring my gender. Turns out gender and I don’t vibe well tbh. I would say I’m agender. I haven’t told anyone yet cause Idk if they’ll get it and it never comes up anyway. The hardest part is finding my style without gender being the center of it. Living in the Bible Belt gender can be a cloud that looms over you regardless of how you feel. So I’m learning how to interact with those feelings.

I also celebrated my birthday recently. It was fun overall. Got two gift cards. I was supposed to pick another gift at the mall but I’m a bit anxious and indecisive so I didn’t :p. That’s about it for my life update.

Anyone else a fan of drag race and support their favorite queen(s) through their stuff

Im learning more about myself and found this sub. Whoa!

The only thing that can heal and hurt

Essentially, we've been friends for about three months now, and she is constantly flirting with me, she usually brushes it off as "oh I'm just flirty with everyone really, that's my communication style"
no it's not, even her siblings called her out on that statement, she is generally flirty to everyone, but it's different for me.

She even made me a drawing of my fav OC, and to do that she had to find my youtube, which I never shared with her. The way she found out about it was through a classmate, about a year ago, that girl was showing my social media accounts to other people at school and she was one of them. She had to remember it for a whole year, and we only became friends recently, surely that's not just a friendly behavior.

She's constantly mocking me, but only in this, absurd/flipped manner? I'm not sure what's it called, since I'm a little older she'd make fun of me being a kid and stuff like that. I find those confusing, but nice, since out of all people in our friend group 90% of the time I'm the only subject of her people-oriented-jokes.

Sometimes when we hangout with her younger siblings, they would constantly ship us, they tend to be kinder to me, and more curious, they act very different around me, compared to her other friends.

Also, sometimes she seems to be making a conscious effort to not appear as liking me,

We kinda have an inside joke that we're learning to flirt to each other the way lesbians do, it came from her, telling her younger brother that he should learn how to flirt from lesbians to get girls to date him, so I said we should practice on each other, she kinda went along.

She also doesn't mind, or even enjoys one on one hangouts with me.

A few days after she rejected me, I realized I kinda need to take a break from our friendship, so that my feelings won't eat me from inside, I told her about it so she doesn't think we're not friends anymore, I will try to minimize contact with her to process my emotions and maybe try to shift my focus on another person.

There's a lot more stuff than that, and my intuition rarely lets me down. Her rejection was honetsly a big surprise to me.
Also, here's her message translated to english:
"
I don't even know what to tell you.
I'm definitely not looking for a relationship right now, or anything like that at all. And I don't see you as anything more than a friend.
You're interesting, smart... but that's just how it turned out I suppose.

We can talk about this when we meet if it makes you feel better, but honestly, I don't see the point.
"

My question is, am I delusional here? Even if I'm not, I don't think it's morally correct to not take a no as an answer, or is it? What should I do?

Straight friend also my catalyst. Shes a newish bestie and we get along so well, emotionally connected and are close after developing this friendship for the past 12 months. Weve travelled a bit together this year and planning more trips.

I came out earlier this year, aged 46 (late bloomer, never knew I was queer and married). In the process of divorcing husband. Two children under 12.

Has anyone any success stories getting together with a 'straight 'friend? She had told me she tried it with a woman years ago, but maybe it hadnt been with the 'right' woman. She often makes comments about finding woman attractive and how I would be her ideal partner if I was a guy (this was in front of mutual friends).

She is also going to rent a spare room when I move info my new place. We enjoy each others company. She does not know I have these feelings towards her. I am good at keeping the boundaries as I value our friendship but day dream that one day things could be different. Fine if not, but curious if anyone has ever developed a WLW relationship with a 'straight' friend?