FI's step daughter from his last marriage was texting me last night. It took her 10 minutes of very nervous sounding texting, but she told me she has a girlfriend! My response was no different than if she had said she had a boyfriend. I said that was awesome, how'd you meet, what's her name.
Two seconds later my phone rings and she asked if I read the text and saw it said GIRLfriend. I said yes and you haven't answered my questions. She started sobbing, turned out I was the only person she considers family that she thought she could tell and she still expected that I would judge her for it and make her explain herself. She felt better by the time we got off the phone, but begged me not to tell anyone who might out her to her grandparents or mom's side of the family.
This is the part where I am disgusted by people, unlike her assumption about my reaction I know for a fact that her mom's side of the family will react how she expects. They are very very open about their Christian beliefs and love going on about their homophobic burn in hell shit. Apparently she asked her grandma what she would do if she had found out any of her kids were gay and the only two options sounded like one of those lovely pray away the gay camps or being kicked out.
Right now she has decided she will stay in the closet as long as she can. She lives with her moms family so it's not like she can just decide to say fuck what they think. It just breaks my heart that I am the only one she feels she can go to.