When I came out, my mother told me that she will learn to tolerate "this", but tolerance is not acceptance, and not to expect acceptance from her. So I don't. She also sent me for an HIV test straight away. It was 2006.
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My brother told my parents that I was visiting my (then) boyfriend.

They called the family priest to be there when I got home.

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I told my mother I was gay when I was 18.
It was 1985.
Her response was, “Well I expect you’ll get AIDS and die then.”
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