Hello, Reader. I’m KO (pseudonym), I was rejected by my parents upon coming out (long story), and this blog post has been a long time coming.

This is not a new story because queer people have been coming out and getting rejected for centuries and likely, millennia. As a side note; for an uplifting article which breezes through queer history and is something that I often read when I’m feeling down, please click here. Thank you, Sarah Prager. You’ve helped me on countless occasions.

However, my story is my own as yours may be and I’m trying something new where sharing it might help both of us. However, I’m going to try not to turn this into a diary of sorts and rather, foster a discussion about who we are as children of parents with whom we have fraught relationships, and what we can and should do about it. I don’t claim to be an expert in how to deal with abandonment, I only hope to spur on a dialogue and “find my tribe”, as RuPaul would say.

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