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I had an aunt who was a lesbian. I didn’t find out until years after she died. Around my house, we just called her partner her “roommate”, and she never came to visit. I really wish I had known the truth when she was still alive, for a lot of reasons.
Anyway, this stuff isn’t made up. Everything Lasker says is something I’ve heard multiple times throughout my life, which is probably why so many of you seem to relate with having to deal with a family member like him. He’s a composite, not based on any one person I knew, but his controlling nature and inability to empathize with others is something you still see a lot these days.
I had an aunt who was a lesbian. I didn’t find out until years after she died. Around my house, we just called her partner her “roommate”, and she never came to visit. I really wish I had known the truth when she was still alive, for a lot of reasons.
Anyway, this stuff isn’t made up. Everything Lasker says is something I’ve heard multiple times throughout my life, which is probably why so many of you seem to relate with having to deal with a family member like him. He’s a composite, not based on any one person I knew, but his controlling nature and inability to empathize with others is something you still see a lot these days.
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I'm the only LGBT i know of in mine as well, though I came out pretty early and have been accepted (thank god my family is largely socially progressive), though idunno if anybody besides my maternal side of the family knows, seeing as they from more north in the states. My dad and my paternal uncle and aunts know but thats about it... I don't feel as if I need them to know since I doubt it'd be something they'd be able to talk about which is fine by me
I was so disappointed that my parents kept my aunt a secret, too. My mother's sister was lesbian (at least that's as far as they did tell me). Apparently she had a big falling out with my mother's dad over it pretty well before I was born. She was basically never heard from again. After knowing about myself, then finding out about her, I had really wished I had the chance to know her. Now I never will.
Eugh, anti_dev has no business making this comic so REAL!!! AHHHH!!
My own coming out, was like, there was this girl I felt super close to, who liked me a lot as well, but I held hands with her and I was a little bit like... 'ooooh no....'
The way my stomach dropped just then at the thought of telling my hyper religious family.
I understand why some people willingly submit themselves to barbaric, horrific programmes to 'rid' themselves of it. Fortunately, my family came around in the end, but Lasker, christ, I can completely understand Raeford's future self-harm.
God this comic is just *chef's kiss*
My own coming out, was like, there was this girl I felt super close to, who liked me a lot as well, but I held hands with her and I was a little bit like... 'ooooh no....'
The way my stomach dropped just then at the thought of telling my hyper religious family.
I understand why some people willingly submit themselves to barbaric, horrific programmes to 'rid' themselves of it. Fortunately, my family came around in the end, but Lasker, christ, I can completely understand Raeford's future self-harm.
God this comic is just *chef's kiss*
I never came out to my parents, for as open-minded as they were about art and fiction, my mother was a raging homophobe. The fact that she loves "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" makes me scratch my head as that was the gayest thing I had in my childhood.
How many double standards do you folks see in your families?
How many double standards do you folks see in your families?
That's something I noticed too, there are two types of Gay to these people, the "acceptable" type and the "unacceptable" type. If you stay in your lane they tend to be indifferent or even somehow endeared to you, as in, be a campy, flashy entertainment person or hairdresser or somesuch. It's so weird...
This page alone hits hard. Even today, I parents "pretend" to understand that I'm not straight yet they feel the need to mock me being biromantic/asexual and always gossip about other people being gay. Not helping is the fact that I'm black and homophobia is so common in the black community
Can't say my parents really spoke like this, but I will say my "awakening" was fairly similar to Raeford's, with hot characters in video games and cartoons.
Beast getting out of the bath in Beauty and the Beast had me running to the TV screen and looking as close as I could for the one quick frame of animated penis that was definitely there, no one could tell me otherwise.
Beast getting out of the bath in Beauty and the Beast had me running to the TV screen and looking as close as I could for the one quick frame of animated penis that was definitely there, no one could tell me otherwise.
Came out to my dad, said he'd probably never have that kind of courage (meant a lot coming from a Navy Chief) to do himself if he were in my shoes. We're pretty much on great terms, same with my mom'. They adore my bf... Really sad to see ppl who experienced this side of coming out (if they ever did).
To me, the context of Lasker's argument of his sister-in-law "not talking about that" = "not talking at all about their relationship. Period." Pretty damn sure if an opposite sex couple (or one side of it) talks about the relationship (even in risque terms), he's fine with it, but the moment a same sex couple (or one side) even tries to modestly talk about it, the "NOPE" sign goes up.
I'm probably wrong about the context, but it wouldn't surprise me if that's the case. Maybe the next page will reveal it, maybe not.
I'm probably wrong about the context, but it wouldn't surprise me if that's the case. Maybe the next page will reveal it, maybe not.
"I had an aunt who was a lesbian. I didn’t find out until years after she died. Around my house, we just called her partner her “roommate”, and she never came to visit."
Same my uncle had a "friend" he lived with. My uncle was also very upset when his friend died. Really didn't help. Another family member (cousin, once removed) is gay and I didn't find out until I was like 20. So yeah growing up in a catholic neighborhood, going to a catholic after school program and having the entire concept of LGBTQ stuff hidden from me at every opportunity did not help me feel normal.
Same my uncle had a "friend" he lived with. My uncle was also very upset when his friend died. Really didn't help. Another family member (cousin, once removed) is gay and I didn't find out until I was like 20. So yeah growing up in a catholic neighborhood, going to a catholic after school program and having the entire concept of LGBTQ stuff hidden from me at every opportunity did not help me feel normal.
Ah God poor kid; I remember not understanding why I thought certain GI Joe's or The Gargoyles were just, like, really cool you know?
I hope kids today get to see those LGBQT people portrayed in a sympathetic light so they have the role models and aspirational characters that I didn't, so they don't have to spend years and years thiniking something is wrong with them.
I hope kids today get to see those LGBQT people portrayed in a sympathetic light so they have the role models and aspirational characters that I didn't, so they don't have to spend years and years thiniking something is wrong with them.
Oh a lot of us can relate to shitty parents. I remember my coming out to my Dad. His only words were, "That's your business" and nothing more, nothing ever. Now you might say, "Oh, awesome, he was cool about it, right?" No, no he wasn't. He just didn't care, he geniuenly didn't care as in. "You mean so little to me that I can't even bother to be angry or sad or anything." In a way I sometimes wish he would have been angry, at least it would have been a sign that he has any feelings for his child.
Man this is heavy. My dad was literally like this with Will and Grace. And any other similar shows. And I was Raeford with nobody to go to while playing video games on GBA and realizing I REALLY liked Machoke in Pokemon. And other such characters depending on the console. It was the only safe place to explore the stuff untill way later. Especially as my parents bickered and fought in toxic ways. Then my mom got brain surgery, and my dad abandoned helping her relearn how to speak and function and that got dumped on me when I was 13. He got insecure and jealous, then the self harm started as I taught my unrecognizable mom how to slowly be a fucntional person again over the course of a decade. And you wouldn't know she has the surgery nowadays. But god is the homophobia and insecurity wih my dad still bad as ever. He's nicer than Lasker, but only in the good moods. I think he just repressed the nasty stuff now that I yell back louder and with better arguments with him to shut shit down. But nobody should ever have to go through this shit. It's awful. Good fucking amalgamation writing of a bad homophobic father here. I really love how real this comic has been. You're fantastic at weaving in stuff to make a porn comic into way way more than just that. I hope it's cathartic to write this kind of stuff and you heal by venting in this kind of way and representing struggles so many go through that would never get seen or talked about otherwise. This kind of stuff is so important. And you do it with a big audience that comes for the horny, and sees this wether it sinks in and affects them so much. But it's really really helpful to see these kinds of things represented. It makes it all feel less isolating and provides a way to talk about this stuff and introduce it to people who are unaware. Really inportant work you're doing here.
I was kicked out when I was 19 for coming out back in 2004 (please don’t do the math). I was homeless for about a year until my (at the time) friend on second life let me come stay with him. We just celebrated our 17 year anniversary last august. This world and the people in it can be cruel, but good things can illuminate the darkness, especially when you’re left standing in the pitch black moonless night.
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