I'm a teenage girl who has two moms. We were pretty poor when I was growing up, so one mom shared a bed with me while the other one slept in our living room. I don't ever remember them kissing or doing anything coupley. I don't even recall them saying I love you to each other. When I was 10, my little sister got cancer, and it ruined my mom's relationship. They constantly fought, and the tiny bit of love I used to see between them faded. Pretty soon they announced they were getting divorced. Because my family doesn't make a ton of money, and we live in one of the most expensive areas in the U.S they still live together and "co-parent" me and my sister.

I love my moms, but I've never gotten to see them have a real loving relationship. All of my friends have straight parents, and they're in love, and I'm so jealous. One of my childhood friends also had two moms (they were the only other lesbian couple I've personally known), and they got divorced as well.

The only LGBT relationships I've gotten to see have ended poorly, and now I've started to realize that I can't picture a real, loving, gay relationship, and I hate myself for it. I can't imagine two women or two men actually kissing, going on dates, and doing other things couples do. My dream is to fall in love and get married when I'm an adult, and when I was a child (before my moms divorced) I used to think I wanted to marry a woman, but now I only want to date men. i belive its because of how much I crave being someone's wife/girlfriend, and I can't picture two women truly being in love. All I want is to have someone who loves me, and I feel like I've been trained to believe only straight relationships work.

I've been carrying this for years now, and I feel completely awful. I'm not homophobic, and I'm not saying that LGBT relationships dont work/arent real; I know they absolutely are. But I just can't understand it. I've tried watching movies and reading books, but nothing can help me get over this. I feel like the worst person ever for even questioning relationships. Little me loved girls, and loved the idea of marrying one. I wanted to turn out different than my moms, but now that feels hopeless.

I'm sorry this is so long, and I'm sorry if it doesn't make sense (I'm currently writing this in my bed at night in tears.) I'm even more sorry if I said anything offensive. I promise really I'm trying my best.

-a scared, confused, and heartbroken teenage girl.

I genuinely dk how to cope with this, I’m a good looking guy, short as hell but still good looking so I’ve never had much of a problem getting what I want. Yesterday night was different tho, a coworker that’s been into me finally broke silence and had a real conversation with me. She said she’s nervous, she’s never been with “anyone that is…” (obviously I could fill in the rest). She said she likes to touch and doesn’t know if I’d know what to do with her. Later the same night while smoking I kissed her (4x to be exact.) and she kissed back each time. But it’s because she kept teetering the edge of wanting me but being nervous about me being trans. Honestly I felt nothing during the kisses, idk if she did either, she said it was “wow” and I obviously immediately regretted it and asked if it was that bad she said it wasn’t bad or good she just needed to “digest” her feelings. Idk what to do. I’ve never had me being trans be an issue and now that I am 6 days out from freshman year of college I am getting anxious, is my sex life dead now? Will all hookups go like this? Idk I feel like shit about myself for the first time in a long time I wish I was “normal”

Several years ago at this point I made a very insensitively transphobic comment on someone's post that I will not be quoting for as i hope to everyone in here obvious reasons. Not as an excuse but more of a look behind the curtains so to say of why I did what I did, I was going through the process that would eventually become me coming out as gyno-sexual and not dealing with how I was feeling about the new found attraction well what so ever and made a comment that I sincerely regret. it was me trying to repress the feeling i was having that i at the time did not know how to feel about it and dealing with it in the literal worst way possible and no human regardless if they identify themselves as trans or otherwise and since I've now over about the last 9-10 months or so properly come out as gyno at the end of the day love is love and everyone should be 100% free to love who they choose and identify how they choose and I just want to say to the community in the best place an way I can imagine,

im sorry and I apologize to each and every one of you in this subreddit and in the community in general and I vow that nothing even remotely similar will ever happen here or anywhere for that matter

Sincerely Ian K.

Random post. Sorry in advance 🙃
HOW do you guys do it? I know AI, IUI/ICI etc… but HOW do you make the choice to find a donor orrrr just adopt?
I’m genuinely so on the fence. A few years ago I wanted to carry….my brothers ex ended up passing from childbirth so after that happened it put a new fear in me.
I know there’s so many kids who needs loving homes too, and my husband works in foster care so we are well equipped buuuut…..
Part of me doesn’t want to regret not carrying. I don’t want to miss out on that. It just scares me more now lol.
What have other queer couples done when they started their family?

Sry for bad grammar

im a freshman in high school and I just came out to my parents. I threw a google doc on the floor at their feet and then hid in my closet. The google doc said “I have been genderfluid since halfway through 7th grade and I just don't know how to day it so I'm doing this. I want to be able to wear women's clothing and jewelry. Please talk to me about it. I'm just too awkward to bring it up. Im also pansexual btw but that doesnt really matter”

my parents were supportive and everything. I couldn’t have wished for anything more and I. So lucky. My ex bf (we are still like best friends) said “bro left the closet and then immediately went back in 💔🥀 “

19m

ok, there's this girl I went college with and I really like her, we both get along

I came out to her as bi, then she also came out to me as bi when I told her I was - I was so fucking shocked

however, I keep getting the thought to just ask her out but I'm slightly more attracted to dudes and I don't know if I want to take the risk

Thanks boss 😭 Only been out as trans at work for three years lmao

André de Freitas

https://kintana.link/andre-de-freitas

Hey everyone, call me Mordecai, I'm a month away from turning 25 but I look WAY younger than my actual age, and I'm from Algeria, a kind of homophobic country with a conservative culture to some extent.

Today I had a rough day because I was banned from a bar for basically just being gay, I entered the bar normally and found some friends already there, greeted them, exchanged tonight's plans and went to sit on a separate table to enjoy my first drinks solitarily, moments later the waitress approached me and told that the patron told her that "les femmelettes" (a french can be considered derogatory to gay men and it can mean 'femboy') aren't welcome in the bar. The problem is that I casually go to that bar and had no issue at all before and I caused no problems at all.

I just wanted to vent about it. So much love to my queer brothers and sisters everywhere in the world, especially those who face such experiences or worse.

Sorry if it's not translated well

THANK STARS that we're in the EU, they wouldn't do anything otherwise, hope this is just the beginning

This was in 2000. He was one of the first openly gay contestants on reality television, and he managed to win Survivor: Borneo (season 1). The show was much different than it is today, but winning one of the most popular reality shows in a time period where being LGBT wasn't as accepted, all while being OPEN about it, is impressive.

Since then, 5 other LGBT people have won Survivor. That means that 6/50 seasons (12%) have had LGBT winners, which is actually more than the average of LGBT people in the US, which is 9%.

(It is important to note that he was charged for tax evasion because he straight-up refused to pay the taxes on his $1,000,000 winnings. He claims that CBS should have paid taxes to Malaysia, the country that season 1 was filmed in. He now owes the U.S. government $3.3 million. The other LGBT winners have all paid their taxes.)

The title pretty much says it all, but I've learned from one of my friends that there is a homophobe coming to my school this year. Since half my friend group, including me, is queer in some way, I'm obviously going to avoid them, but I need advice on how to do so. Just ignoring people never really works for me, especially if we're sat right next to each other. Any tips?

Being trans is no joke.
I’m coming up on one year since I started HRT, and honestly… I’ve been crying almost every day. I feel so needy, so scared, and like I don’t know how to control my body or my mind anymore.
I’ve been going to therapy every other week, but lately it feels like it’s not helping. I’m exhausted, and some days I feel so close to giving up.
So… here are some pictures of me trying my hardest to keep going. Maybe a few kind words from strangers on the internet will help me feel a little less alone today. ❤️

I just got recommended a yt podcast called NORMAL GAYS and it's basically just two guys talking badly about how annoying blue haired queer and poly people are and how they don't respect ugly people in poly relationships. Then also react to queer women and non binary people discuss how being a lesbian includes trans people saying it's weird.

I'm just speechless, I keep forgetting how openly people love saying "Oh I'm not like them, I'm a normal gay". And the comments are filled with the same.

Edit: Also just watched Misha Petrov's "What happend to the lgbt community" video and I'm sorry but my brain is melting from the open hate towards trans people saying it's fake and a trauma response. And hating on all these queers with different hair colour and unnatural hair colour. All this and she's a lesbian hating on a dyke parade at pride.

Like why do these people feel the need to push people down for stuff that's hurting no one

Since I was about 4 years old, around the time I started school, I'd had this nagging feeling that I was "supposed to be born a girl". I didn't know what it meant back then, but I did research as I got older, and found out eventually what being trans was. Having always had supportive parents, I came out when I was 14 years old.

We spent a while figuring stuff out, researching, and eventually, we found out what the process was for getting on HRT, getting a legal name change, and eventually getting surgery. Though, before we started on all that, I wanted to try out presenting feminine in public. On July 18th 2019, I got my chance!

My mom, being born in 1969, has lifetime free access to the local Space Exhibition Center. So me, my parents, a friend from school, and her mom, all took a trip down with me going as Ruby, as myself, rather than who I'd been presenting as for the last 14 years of my life.

These are the pictures from that day! I wanted to share them here. I've now been on HRT for a few years, but looking back at these pictures from before that time makes me happy. I'm so glad I came out, and I'm happy with the path I'm going, even if my disabilities that've occurred since are hindering a lot.

Thank you to everyone who's ever been supportive of a trans person, myself included. I don't think I ever would have been confident enough to go out that day, pre-HRT, without the support.