Join my really-badly-named club!

[tzikeh]

tzikeh: My friends and I and I are forming a club - the "I Wish I Were a Lesbian so I Could Come Out to My Parents to Force them to Deal With the Reality of Gays" club... Kinda unwieldy name.
elynross: Um. Yes. You could always just date lesbians!
tzikeh: well... not much fun for me, really.
elynross: "Mom, Dad, I'm not lesbian, but I'm dating a woman..."
tzikeh: lolol
elynross: It's the principle. Isn't it? *g*
tzikeh: Taking One For the Other Team, so to speak.
killabeez: snork
elynross: exactly!

Comments

[therealjae.livejournal.com]

You two crack me up!

Although, come to think of it, *I* am not a lesbian, but am dating a woman ... ;-)

-J

[heresluck]

Me too! Or, well, not at the moment, but if I were actually dating. . . *g*

The local BiPride group actually had this on t-shirts a few years back: "I'm not a lesbian, but my girlfriend is."

[renenet.livejournal.com]

OK, *that's* funny. You could come out to your parents as bi and then date men for your own fun and women for the cause of the club. Make sure it's only your uptight relatives you deceive, though, or you'll perpetuate the stereotypes that piss off my bi friends and me constantly. :)

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

Wow, everything's reversed - now I need a beard to keep my family from finding out that I'm straight!

[renenet.livejournal.com]

It's a topsy-turvy world, isn't it?

[elke-tanzer.livejournal.com]

*scratches forehead* Isn't that sort of thing exactly what "straight but not narrow" is about?

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

Yes, but many parental-types don't care to think about it until it actually directly affects them - i.e. their child comes out. Hence the humorous desire to form a club.

[elke-tanzer.livejournal.com]

Oh. Right.

*remembers the gymnasium scene in In & Out*

I'm still getting the hang of my own queerness, so I'm a bit slow on the uptake... thanks.

[valarltd.livejournal.com]

I'll stay in the closet with my mum, thanks.

Sorry. It would gain nothing, harm our relationship immensely, and not even be satisfying. After all, I'm married.

And if I come out, she'll immediately start back up with her "Mudd is gay" rap, only this time there'll be a new verse about "All your other boyfriends were, why wouldn't your husband be too?"

But I'll date you! And Elynross.

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

Understood - but I'm glad you'll date me and Ellen!

[sanj.livejournal.com]

*I'll* date you, sweetie. For real or just for the scandal. I have a .500 conversion rate with straight girls. ;)

Hmmm. I'm a very nonthreatening queer to take home to the 'rents -- I really should hire out or something.

"Friends! Allies! Bring a dyke home to dinner!"

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

I think "Rent-A-Queer" could totally take off.

[the-star-fish.livejournal.com]

Hmph. I never got an offer like that.

Oh, wait, you did say you'd hit on me 'n' my dyke-y new haircut...

But then you never did! Waaaah!

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

hmm. i have been known to feel guilty that i'm not bi, but no matter how hard i've tried, girls haven't done it for me. boys are it, man. can there be a wish-i-were-a-gay-boy auxiliary?

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

Oooh! Yes, yes, yes. In fact, that's really where I would likely belong - Gay Man Trapped in Woman's Body. Mmm. Gay men.