Short messages on Lifestyle from Respect Yourself, the guidance site for young people to help make good decisions in life.
There a few steps you can follow to help you tell your parents you are LGBT: choose a good time (when no-one is stressed), have a supportive relative on hand, keep it simple, speak clearly, and give them time to understand.
“Coming out” is a phrase used when someone publicly starts telling their friends and family that they are LGBT. Be supportive as this is a big statement and they may be feeling emotional e.g. vulnerable, relieved, excited, apprehensive.
Gay pride is there to promote self-affirmation, dignity, equality rights, increase visibility as a social group, build community, and celebrate sexual diversity and gender variance.
Gay pride or LGBT pride is the positive stance against discrimination and violence toward lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people.
Having hobbies you participate in as a couple is a great way to relate to your partner on another level, but that doesn’t mean you should abandon your individual hobbies all together. In fact, participating in activities on your own, without your partner, gives you something to talk about when you do come back together.
Create a list of what you’d like to see in your life and come up with goals to make it happen. Starting an Action Journal can help you focus your actions towards your goals.
If you have time to spare, get a hobby. Try something that relaxes you or adds benefit to your life or someone else’s. It should be something that you can enjoy and look forward to.
In 2012-2013, a single person can get up to £107.45 a week basic State Pension, though some people get less than this. Many people get more than this amount, because they also get an additional State Pension.
Most days involve doing things we don’t really want to do, and also doing things we do want to do. If you get the bits you don’t want to do out of the way first, the rest of the day will be spent doing things you enjoy doing.
You are going to change and grow throughout your life, but that does not mean that your values have to change as well. Welcome new places, new faces and new loves, but never change those core parts of you unless you have strong reasons to believe you were wrong to believe them in the first place.