i have super strict parents that are always saying sh*t about the LGBTQ+ community
so I don't have the courage to come out and I can't express my feeling to anyone bc if they let it out I don't know what ill do with my life, I depend on my parentes and my dad is always saying that im the only hope of the family. I try to convince myself that I like men but I do NOT, I dunno why its so hard to admit it, at fist I was like im probably bi, then after my cousin found out I was a little bit more secure about being lesbian, not long after I felt like I might me pan, but now I am realizing im just making up things and deep down I know I am lesbian. 
PS: I have really strict Muslim parents
NEED ADVISE 

im 14, emotionally my cousin but financially no 

I have them, but they have perfect lives and I know they try to understand me but they really don't know how I feel

How old are you and is there anyone in the family who can support you

you need a friend to tell these problems... 

Anxiety

so today i was texting my neighbor who i hangout with a lot and my dad asked if i was texting my boyfriend. so i said no and my brother said that after the last guy i dated i swore off guys, which isn’t rly completly true but whatever. and so my dad said ok and then asked if i like girls and i said yes and he said ok. sooo that part was rly good. but then my stepmom came upstairs and starting talkin abt how she doesn't understand all the labels ppl are putting on themselves. and so my stepmom then was talkin abt my stepbro who's bi and has a male lean and she was saying that when you’re bi you’re bi and there are no leans- and i got kinda pissed at that cuz she was wrong and i tried to explain it to her and she said sweetie i’ve known lgbtq ppl longer that u. but it’s funny cause she’s straight and yk im not but whatever, she knows best

and then she proceded to say that just bc one relationship went bad with a guy doesn’t mean is should swear them off, but that’s just what triggered the final “im gay”, cause i’d liked girls before that and wasn’t rly attracted to guys yk. but she wasn’t getting it. and then she called me bi multiple times after i had said i don’t like guys- and this woman has gay friends and calls herself an ally

and she said that if think a relationship with a woman would be easier then i’d be lying to myself

and idk how she can’t get that i just like WOMEN, i mean it ain’t that hard to get

she was being borderline homophobic

and like a year ago she said she thought that trans ppl just have an underlying mental contidtion and that it’s not bc of their gender that they don’t feel right in their skin


anywayyyyys that kinda sucked, bye :)


Coming Out

My housekeeper keeps using she/her pronouns when talking to me (everything is gendered in Hebrew) even though she knows I'm trans and that's really frustrating tbh

Adulting

What are some good comebacks for homophobic arguments such as it's unnatural or it's a sin the Bible is against it?

Family

I've been feeling depressed for the past few months and randomly break down crying. I'm a closeted pan. My family absolutely detests the whole LGBTQ community plus they are very religious too. Knowing I can't come out to them frustrates me to the point that I feel like my heart's getting ripped apart. 

LGBTQ

*TW: slighty homophobic* 
So my mom is religious(christian) and shes the type to "support me" in anything...So I firstly told my dad that I was Bisexual and Gender-fluid. My dads the chill type of guy who will actually not really judge me(but he can be a little uncomfortable sometimes). The only fault is, my dad is loyal and doesn't keep secrets from my mom(his wife). So he told her and told her not to tell me that he told her...so about a week later...she came to me and asked me why I wanted to hide my sexuality from her. She said, "I'll support you no matter what...even if what you're doing isn't the right thing...(insert name)" That's when it hit me that she doesn't actually feel that way. She has tried to change my sexuality and asked me really uncomfortable questions that I didn't want to answer on the note that I'd be judged. I hadn't told her about my girlfriend...and she still doesn't know...she now watches me 24/7 and puts locks on my phone and cameras around the house to watch me... Hopefully she doesn't see this. Anyways, since I was figuring out who I was and I felt I wasn't straight I started making it somewhat public. My mom found out and told me, "(insert name), you need to stop confessing your sins. You keep them to yourself and work on them quietly...I don't go around saying my sins and being proud of them. You shouldn't be proud of something that you did wrong. And you shouldn't be announcing it to everyone either.." That's the phrase that broke my heart....I'm not gonna type anymore for fear of crying....well it's not like I can cry anymore...I have more trauma not including this but I'll probably share those another day...Well, thank-you for reading! If you can, give me your opinions and advice about how I should deal with this...and sorry this might not be very important in your eyes...

Hi am new here. Any lgbt community people? Would like to make friends.

what would you do if you wanted to come out to homophobic parents

Does anybody know what is bad anxiety all about? I am a bisexual (a female but I am mostly attracted to women) and today is the first day of the pride month. Last year, with all the positivity around in the pride month, I thought of coming out to my parents about my sexuality and that recently I am talking to a girl, and we are on the verge of getting into a relationship. 

Why is it so difficult for girls like us to express our true selves? Why do we always have to be so afraid of just being the real us? I don't know about others, but I know for sure that my parents will straightaway freak out. They can never accept that I have fallen for a girl, and I has another girlfriend in the past. I still haven't gathered the courage to reveal true self in front of mumma and papa. But this year, I want to try again. Even if the pride month ends, I will keep on trying again and again to break this in front of them.

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