Story #1113

When I came out today, I told my conservative Muslim parents that I was gay. They were accepting, they said they still loved me, but they didn’t understand it. They didn’t understand what being gay was. Maybe I didn’t explain it well enough; maybe I did and their foreign upbringing limits their understanding of what being gay is. They think that I don’t need to tell people, and that I don’t need to find someone even when I’m older (I’m only 17). It hurts that they can’t fully accept this.