Hey,
I don't really know if I have the, "right" to post here. I'm going to anyway though.. lol. Now, I'm straight, but my friends who are gay, Derek and Jason used to live with me so I could at least tell you how my mother was around them and how their "legal" guardians were as well. Starting with Derek since he moved in first.
Let's see Derek officially moved in when he was outed by my father when I was sixteen. He was seventeen. Anyway, my father found out that Derek was Bi when me and him were, "Dating" so he called his father and so Derek was outed. My father didn't like homosexuals, but he's old and set in his ways. Well he's dead now, but he WAS set and old fashioned and just plain old. (Weird Family - I'll blog on that later.. lol). Anyway, SO Derek moved in with us and Mom soon divorced my father. Derek's father obviously didn't approve of his son even being Bi (at the time).
Now Jason he moved in a year and a half later. He first lived with his aunt and uncle and when he came out to me his twin brother Josh found out and outed him to his aunt and uncle. They didn't accept him and were pretty hostile and unforgiving about it. Asking him questions like, "You didn't touch "Nephew" have you?" So that was bad.
Oh wait my gay friend Greg - Isn't from around here, but his parents accepted him... but he moved here to go to college at U of Kentucky (Medical School student) from Mass.
NOW on to the main point since this is a Parental Acceptance of Gayness forum. My mother who has worked with many gay people let them both live with us. So she obviously felt accepting or at least open. But later I found out and so did they which is why neither of them are still living with my mother... that Mom only would let them stay if No one from her social group found out about Jason and Derek - two gay guys living under her roof.
So I haven't really saw a lot of Parental Acceptance of Gayness around me personally. I would like to, but I know that this is a Southern state so use your imagination there. I know of many gay people in and around my town that are extremely scared to come out to anyone in their family. Even to go as far as to putting, "Straight" on myspace. I don't know what to tell any of them either. I would like to tell them to be themselves, but around my home town Family is extremely important to one's survival. So it's a never ending clash with desire to express and the fear keeping them from doing it.
Krista