“My mum and I used to go and visit her and take her stuff which she would then flog. My mother looked after Jean her whole life. My mum was her main support, financially. “She had eight children by different men. Even her own mother didn’t like her very much. It was only as I got older that I realised that not everybody was like that.”Ĭhristine knew that her parents weren’t married and that the family had a difficult relationship with her mother’s sister, Jean. “I didn’t understand why but that’s how it was. We weren’t encouraged to speak to neighbours. “I grew up with my mum and dad, we lived in a flat. How didn’t I know for the whole of my life?” There are hundreds of women who did exactly what my mum did all through history. “If you look at a lot of oral history about gay people, it tends to still predominantly focus around men. Now whether that was a relationship that would have continued, for the rest of her life, I don’t know. My mum was technically denied the one thing she wanted, which was to be with probably the woman she loved. “I’ve been able to have a career, have a family, and still be gay. She feels like she’s finally able to talk about it. “She said that she’d had a relationship, quite a long standing relationship with a woman and that her parents had written her a letter saying that if there was any form of relationship going on, that they didn’t approve and that it wasn’t an appropriate way to live a life.”Įllen kept her mum’s secret for nearly 20 years. “I then asked, ‘does anybody else know?’ and she said, ‘no, I will go to the grave with this and you are to tell nobody.’ The way she fixed her gaze on me, when she said that, I knew she was serious. She just span round and said, ‘I think I do’.”Įllen’s mum told her that she’d had a relationship with a woman, but that she had married Ellen’s father and had never told anybody. I said, ‘you don’t know what it’s been like’. “I eventually just turned around and said ‘Mum, I’m gay’. “We were just standing between the living room and the kitchen and Mum was busy cooking. I didn’t think I could continue not being honest with them. “I’d been living my gay life quite quietly away from the family home and I just got to the point where I needed to talk to my parents about my life. It’s particularly unique because it not only has stories featuring gay men, but also lesbian gay stories, bıseҳual and transgender.“I asked, ‘does anybody else know?’ and she said, ‘no, I will go to the grave with this and you're to tell nobody.’" Nifty: Nifty is probably the best go-to site for steamy gay stories.This is one very sweet gay romantic story we urge you to check out! As a young gay teen, Stefan was obsessed with MrB Stories! It's one of the best websites if you're looking for first time gay stories as well as gay teen stories. Cody meets his boyfriend TJ, and together, they have lots of adventures, which lead to some pretty hot gay stories. His main character (amongst many) is the affable, Cody, in “Daniel's Diary”. MrB Stories: Gary Kelly set up “MrB Stories” in 1999, which became one of the first websites to feature gay narrative prose.My confidence went through the roof! I was then able to slowly come out to my friends, work colleagues, and eventually, to my family.
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