weird questions...

[Mia14]

I thought that with all the talk of weird questions that people ask the GLBT population, I'd start a new thread...

What are the weirdest questions that people have asked you about being GLBT? What questions are the most surprising? And also interesting, who asked those questions?

[awediot]

The strangest, out of the blue question that comes to mind, came during the traumedy classic "Torchsong Trilogy". -Quick stage setter- My mom, my sister and I were lazy Sunday movieing it. There's a point in the flick where after the main character's lover is killed, he finally heals enough to get his feet wet and go back out in the community.(terrible, unworthy summation of an excellent movie, but...) Not being a social butterfly, his first trip into a gay bar is quite uncomfortable. He is self conscious and embarrassed, and my sister turns to me, suddenly enlightened, with a 'wow, so you guys get nervous too?' comment...

Now, this girl has her PhD. in the political sciences. She has been married a couple of times, traveled extensively and has been able to feed herself for some time. But at that moment, how she must have viewed my alien world floored me... My expression must have said most of it for me, as she began backtracking and fumbling for a way to un-ask what could have nothing but an insult for an answer...

I don't remember if or how it played out, but the impression has never left. How we assume we are viewed, and our own crazy views of each other will forever amaze me...

[Zerbie]

:eek: :eek: :eek: "Are you an alternate lifestyle?!!!!!"

I shoulda said, "Why yes, of course! Haven't you heard of the Zerbilifestyle before???":eek:

:lol:

[Mia14]

My aunt ambushed me right after my family coming-out and asked me a few choice questions:

- Are you sure this isn't just for attention?
If all I wanted was negative attention, there are less-permanent and more fun ways to do it.

- Haven't you ever had sex with a guy before?
Whether or not I did makes no difference - some things you just know. Have you ever slept with a girl before?

- So you started dating this girl right after coming out - shouldn't you have waited a while?
I was gay long before I came out, so it doesn't matter how long I wait to find a good relationship. I didn't become gay the day I came out.

- Are you sure this girl isn't using the fact that she's older to pressure you into being gay?
Yes, I'm sure. I'm the one who asked her out.


It amazes me what must be going on in her head, along with the fear that someone was listening while she made gay jokes and snide remarkes all those years...

[pnggrad79]

When I came out to my mother, she goes-"So you're a lesbian?" and I said, "Yes", and then the question that floored me, "Do you have sex with her?" I felt like saying, " No mom, I just imagine it and we have wild passionate sex in my head!!!" Now I know there are plenty of gay people out there who are not in a relationship, or have never had sex but still know they are gay. But this question seemed just utterly stupid. "Duh!!!";)

[Lydia]

- Haven't you ever had sex with a guy before?
Whether or not I did makes no difference - some things you just know. Have you ever slept with a girl before?

If she has a good sense of humour you could always claim to be an ex-straight (http://www.pfoxs.org/churches.html) :rainbow: ;)

[Jennifer5]

Do your parents know you are hanging around homosexuals on a forum?
Do your parents know what you're doing?

Of course exgaybiz was the one who asked those questions

[keltic63]

Do your parents know you are hanging around homosexuals on a forum?
Do your parents know what you're doing?

Of course eagaybiz was the one who asked those questions

and that thread is a big reason for why your post count is so high!

[Jennifer5]

:) yeah....

[morningrob]

Ok not a question but a somewhat accurate dialogue after I came out to some people who were becoming good friends when I moved to TX

ME: "You all know I'm gay."
Silence
Tina: "I never miss Will and Grace."

[Mia14]

oh my goodness, morningrob, I think I would have laughed my head off!

[morningrob]

Well, I did laugh. I think I made a witty reply but I do not remember. Something like I watch Seven Heaven, something like that.

[Jennifer5]

off topic...

Mia I just saw your new picture.. Love it!:)

[Mia14]

off topic...

Mia I just saw your new picture.. Love it!:)

new avatar or new pic in profile?

[Jennifer5]

avatar... but I love your profile picture too.:)

[SolApollo]

...My mom said, "but you don't act gay" :) when I came out.

I wasn't aware we all acted alike LOL.

[tdogg]

Some of my friends & family were "duh! - glad you finally realized it", others were slightly surprised but happy that I was happy. Some family members (1 sister, stepmom and aunt - all fundamentally religious -AG) decided it was a phase, I wasn't really a Lesbian, couldn't be, Satan has deceived me into believing it's okay, eventually I'll come back to Jesus (I have never left actually), and the usual quotations of biblical scripture, oh and a friend who is praying that the Lord will show mercy on my soul...

Now, my sister is tossing around the idea of reading Straight Parents, Gay Children - but not sure she'll read it. My stepmom is in complete denial and refuses to think about my relationship with my partner. My aunt is condeming and self-righteous.

Another aunt (and uncle) wrote me back saying at their wedding they had 1 gay couple and 1 Lesbian couple at their wedding, so they don't have a problem with it! Cute and reassuring!

I guess none of this is too outrageous and probably just the norm!

[Dash]

Hahah!! My mom...:love: I just remembered this...

Her question at the big cry-fest that was my coming out to her and dad was like, "Is it something that happens to people that are more intelligent?"

Yup, mom...all the smart one's are 'mos.

(you have to understand that I grew up on a farm and was the first person in three generations to get a college degree. Sometimes I think my parents look at me like a funny, but lovable alien that somehow got mixed in with their family.):lol:

[Zerbie]

Hahah!! My mom...:love: I just remembered this...

Her question at the big cry-fest that was my coming out to her and dad was like, "Is it something that happens to people that are more intelligent?"

Yup, mom...all the smart one's are 'mos.

):lol:
:eek:
:lol: :lol:

That is a brand new one ta me!!! Oh my gosh, how funny is that?

Uh oh - waita minute - does this mean I de-volved when I starting liking men?
:lol:

[Jennifer5]

Hahah!! My mom...:love: I just remembered this...

Her question at the big cry-fest that was my coming out to her and dad was like, "Is it something that happens to people that are more intelligent?"

Yup, mom...all the smart one's are 'mos.

(you have to understand that I grew up on a farm and was the first person in three generations to get a college degree. Sometimes I think my parents look at me like a funny, but lovable alien that somehow got mixed in with their family.):lol:
Weird thing to say, but kind of sweet at the same time....:lol:

[Mia14]

My girlfriend's mother has been asking us how two women have sex...
we just keep telling her that if she doesn't know, we're not the ones to tell her.