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10 Awkward Questions Closeted Lesbians Hear During the Holidays

10 Awkward Questions Closeted Lesbians Hear During the Holidays

10 Awkward Questions Closeted Lesbians Hear During the Holidays
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Being in the closet is hard enough for a repressed young lesbian, but during the Holidays, when you’re around not just your immediate family, but you’re extended family, it's a total fucking nightmare.

Being around family members, especially the ones who don’t know much about your life, can result in conversations that involve prying personal questions that for some reason, always seem to revolve around the fact that you’re uncharacteristically not boy crazy.

Here are 10 questions every closeted lesbian dreads during the holidays. 

 

1. So do you have a boyfriend yet?

Adele haha no

Um, nope, I don’t.

 

2. Crushing on any boys?

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

 

3. Are you obsessed with Justin Bieber now that he’s single?

nicki minaj shrugs

I love that song of his, "Sorry." Have you seen the music video with all the girls dancing in it? That’s pretty cool.

 

4. When are you going to stop spending all your time with [insert roommate's name] and meet a boy?

jlaw what

Since when is encouraging me to hang with boys a thing?

 

5. Who do you think is going to ask you to prom?

bitch you don't know my life

Probably nobody.

 

6. Are you on birth control yet?

awkward

Well, that got personal really fucking fast.

 

7. All your cousins have boyfriends; why don't you?

paris

You know, when that time comes…

 

8. Are you hiding a boyfriend from us? 

rihanna nope

Actually, I’m afraid you would scare any person I introduced to you. But ya, no.

 

9. What about that boy [insert name of your best guy friend]? 

no

Definitely not. No.

 

10. You aren’t gay are you?

nope

No comment. Also, no.

If this speaks to you, we understand we have no right to tell you how to live, but it's so worth being out. If you're not already out, you should try it sometime. 

Briana Gonzalez lives and works in San Francisco with her girlfriend and their two pugs (Irie + Tootzy). Follow her on Instagram and Twitter.

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Briana Gonzalez

<p>A proud, queer, Latina, identical twin with a penchant for brash humans and things that make me cough laugh.</p>

<p>A proud, queer, Latina, identical twin with a penchant for brash humans and things that make me cough laugh.</p>