LGBT

My grandmother wrote me a poison-pen letter, the likes of which I've seen nowhere else outside some freepish screeds (PS: all my family are super-staunch Dems). My brother tried to fight my dad's will, making ugly remarks like "f*gs don't DESERVE anything". Lucky for me he made that remark in front of the probate judge... who just happened to be gay. (Ain't karma a motherfucker )

Mom adjusted somewhat in time. She rarely asks about Rob even though we've been together over 16 years. (Mom, I'm pretty sure it's not a phase, k?)

Dad suspected but never said anything directly; only made some snide remarks. I dug my heels in. Two weeks before he died he asked why I never came out to him. He said, "I tried to tease you, goad you, shame you, make jokes, but you never cracked. What was up with that?"

I said, "You did everything but ask me directly. If you had asked me like a man, I'd have told you like a man."

You would have thought a bomb went off inside his head, but he only blinked. He considered a good 30 seconds and then quietly said, "that's entirely fair."

Then that was that.