Families are supposed to support each other, right? Unfortunately, that is not always the case. Sometimes when a person is gay, their family isn't supportive of their sexuality. It really stinks when you are being delt with like trash everywhere, including home. No one should have to go through that. My parents, for instance, weren't accepted. One of my moms still hasn't talked to most of her family since she went to college. The other didn't talk to her parents for years because they were ashamed. It is also hard to be who you are when your family has expressed their feelings about people who are homosexual long before you realize that you are homosexual, bisexual, or transgendered. Then, people have told you ideas that condemn who you are. If your parents are supposed to love you forever, does that promise become completely void if you reveal your sexual preference? People tell us that everyone is different, but yet some people who are apparently too different get shoved out of the way of the "normal". Normal is a dumb word and shouldn't be used to describe people because there is no "normal". When people think there is a "normal" or "average" then others fall into the catagory of "stupid" or "dumb" or "lesbo" or "fag" when being gay doesn't do any harm. People will try to make you believe that being gay will have an influence on your children or you. But, you cannot teach people to be gay. It doesn't work that way! Everyone figures it out for themselves. So long and short, being supported by someone especially family is important to everyone, so you should be the one to be there for them.