Growing up in a small country town in Texas, there definitely were very few LGBT people. Or at least I thought. As a child like elementary and middle school times, there really weren't any LGBT people that I honestly knew. Or at least I knew them, but they weren't "out of the closet" or however you'd like to put it.
I had friends that I believed were homosexual, but of course that's not something I'd ever confront anyone about. I felt if they wanted me to know that they would tell me. I'll admit at the first few signs of my friends possibly being gay I was like oh my gosh this is so weird. Not that I thought gay people were weird, but just the fact that these were my friends I grew up with all my life, and they were never gay before, and had boyfriends and everything so I was more like what the hell like how does that just change. It was all quite confusing so I always just left it alone because I figured they had their reasons for not telling me or any of my other friends. It wasn't until my senior year of high school that they finally came out and were like yes I'm gay. Which of course by then I was like duhh. After that things were just the same as they had always been.
I completely understand what you mean about not exactly thinking that "they're gay" is weird, just the concept in general that something like that changed, when you've known them for so long. I have a friend who I would have never suspected a thing from. She just openly admitted that she was a lesbian one random day. I was just like whoa, wait..what???!!
ReplyDeleteI think a lot of us are from small towns in this class and were taught that being gay is such a strange thing. Now that we're in college, it seems like it's much more common to meet a gay person. But I think it's because college encourages and allows people to become more open about sexuality and express who they really are. It's the beauty of moving away from home towns! When I go back I'm always amazing to see how much my eyes have been opened! Thank God for that. :)
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