I come from a very conservative, Christian family on both sides, my dad's father was an Army Air Corps veteran from WW2 and my moms dad an Air Force mechanic that repair the planes used to do the hydrogen bomb tests out in the bikini islands in the 50s. I'm the first admittedly gay person in my family and this has only been known to all of them this last year. My parents have known longer though. I have been constantly surprised how well they have all taken it. I always feared being disowned by them all or something, but so far it's been the opposite. I myself am still a conservative Christian, and am a member of the Log Cabin Republicans as well, I don't feel any of what I am contradicts anything either. I'm definitely on the more masculine side, you'd never know I was gay unless I told you, and for whatever it's worth I'm sure that has helped my family accept that part of me.
Even growing up with my vacuum obsession my family was always as supportive as could be, I never felt weird or strange for my passion, and when I was diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome they all ended up buying books to read on the subject so they could better understand me and be supportive.
I consider one of the most wonderful things to have happened to me to be the meeting my boyfriend a year and a half ago almost, he's the best thing that's ever happened to me, and yet again my family has actually been supportive of even this. They have all wanted to meet him and have told me that they think I picked a good one and that they are happy for me.
I think I have honestly been given the best family I could have.
