i dont know a better place to post this but it’s something i’ve been struggling with for a few days now. im a leftist, my brother is a jewish neo-nazi. he lives with my parents who i haven’t seen in 9 blissful years, so it was easy to just cut him off too with no drama or regret. growing up in a conservative jewish/authoritarian/military household, we were best friends. i was always “left” of my family but over the years of life and living in the world while in the military myself, i formed my truly leftist perspective. he was apparently going further and further right. anyway, i heard from my one remaining family contact that my brother has been “very sick” with covid for several weeks. i have no idea if i should contact him or not. its hard to imagine feeling guilty right now, the disgust is overwhelming. but i probably would feel guilty if he died and i never spoke to him? then again i have experience with death and there’s definitely a lot of people who im ok with being gone. maybe some people will think its fucked up for me to talk about my own brother that way but for me its pretty much the standard way of dealing with people who brought only violence and hate into the world and are finally leaving it.

I was 11, and just a month ago I found out I was gay. Being the anxious kid I was, I didn't know what was going on. My whole world shattered, and I would be embarrassed if anyone were to find out.

So, I was watching SNL. My parents (because they are so cool) would let me watch adult comedy's by myself. It was about 30 mins and my parents were in the other room, as me and my sister were watching some of the funniest shit we have ever seen. But, because my room has no door and people would walk into it all the time, I wanted any piece of alone time I could get. So I decided to grab my
9 year old's sister's tablet and use it, one of my attemps to get Lily to leave me alone in the room. She noticed and asked "how did you get through the pin?", I replied "I just put in an L". She asked if i had read the conversations. I replied with a "yes" just to mess with her (I didn't actually read anything, I wanted to see how she reacted.). She quickly grabbed the tablet out of my hand and tapped into one of the conversations. I asked "does that say 'lesbian'???" and she quickly laughed and said "NO!" and ran into her room. I figured out that she was gay. And knowing how stressful this stuff can be, I pretended that I didn't know she was gay.

Now, I am still silently keeping 2 huge secrets. God, I wish I had just watched SNL with her and didn't be a nosy brat.

So, we all know how gaming is and can be. I just wanted to jot a quick positive rant about how I'm in a huge LGBTQ community now and it feels good, like I rarely used VC or even played multiplayer before, and it feels good. Thanks for reading! <3

Howdy! I'm u/thatcommiegamer and I'll, hopefully, be able to turn this into a refuge for LGBTQIA+ folks to share stories and vent. Think of this sub like a queer /r/TalesFromTheFrontDesk. Hopefully we can build a safe and vibrant community together.

With that said, let's begin by opening up an application for moderators. Please, DM me with the following:

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