Half and Half family
I am 28. I came from Peru six years ago. Honestly I think that if I would have stayed living there I would not be able to go out…I was raised in a catholic school and Lima, the city where I was raised is conservative and small. I decided to come out on the 2008 when I started my first relationship with a woman. I could not handle living 2 lives; saying I m seeing a man when I was really dating a woman. I went out on a Christmas Eve (ya ya, I know I could not choose a better day) on the 2008. I felt I could not live longer with that inside. Going out changed my life in different ways. To myself was the best thing I could have done. I can t even see or figure myself again being IN. Guys at home took it well, actually they support me; my mom s world stumble for a while…
The “funniest” part of this story is that this year, some months ago my mom discovered after 40 years of marriage that my dad is gay too…for obvious reasons it has been very hard to overcome this situation. My mom and brother feel cheated, and me…I just feel like being in both faces of the coin in simultaneously.
Now the problem is that the “gay topic” is forbidden at home. Being gay is synonymous ewww or sort…sometimes when we are watching T.V. if a gay person appears or any gay scene my mom s attitude, I don’t know if conscious or not, is changing channel or saying something hurtful. I have been thinking about talking to my family just to refresh them all I m gay too, and I m not a cheater or a bad person.
Maybe it’s about time? Maybe when the wounds my dad left stop bleeding my mom and brother will take this topic easier?
I don t know what future will bring for them, but I do know what the present is bringing to me and I don’t change the PEACE I have inside after all.


crazy stuff