When someone of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transsexual community reveals their sexual orientation to someone who is close to them, those relationships tend to have both negative and positive effects. Many members of the LGBT community feel the need to hide who they are from the people they care about due to their fear of being misunderstood. Negativity can ruin the self esteem of someone of the LGBT community, whereas positivity can strengthen their self esteem. Many people base their opinions upon their religious views. Religious opinions often determine whether or not someone will be accepted or turned down and away from their family and friends.
In many situations, when someone of the LGBT community is not accepted it is by someone who was raised on strong religious views and beliefs. My family is very religious, and they do not accept my cousin Josh for being bisexual. His parents, and the rest of my family, pretend like he isn’t a part of the LGBT community. He has to constantly hide who he really is from his own parents. I am the only one in the family who has loved and accepted his decision. I believe that support is the best thing anyone involved in the LGBT community could ask for. People who are more religious cannot accept a major change in society such as this one. They do not accept people of the LGBT community because they do not believe that people should love people of the same sex. They promote that people of the LGBT community will go to hell for their “infidelity”.
Communities of moderately religious people are more accepting of people who belong to the LGBT community. In many situations that I have been involved with, I have noticed how even the smallest bit of acceptance can have the biggest impact on people who are a part of the LGBT community. I have noticed that some of Josh’s friends who do not make a certain religion a large part of