Man recalls his grandfather’s surprising reaction when he came out as gay: “He shocked the hell out of me”
Thread he recently posted go viral. In it, he recalls the very unexpected reaction he got from his grandfather when he came out. “In 1987 my grandfather, in his late 70s, told me he knew I was gay and that he was OK with it.
And then he shocked the hell out of me.”“When he was 16 in rural Pennsylvania he fell in love with a boy. They had a relationship but never imagined having a life together,” he continued. “The world was not safe for homosexuals and he’d never heard of romantic love between men.
He told me if he were born today, his life be very different. He never stopped loving him and he never loved another man.”Subscribe to our newsletter for a refreshing cocktail (or mocktail) of LGBTQ+ entertainment and pop culture, served up with a side of eye-candy.Many found the story a sad reflection on the times in the mid-20th century.
Some compared it to the movie, Brokeback Mountain, or said they knew of similar tales. “Similar story here,” said one. “My maternal grandfather — only when he knew we were very much alone, said he understood my being gay and then told me about the fellow student he loved when he attended Columbia University in the late 1920s.
