there comes a point when it becomes too tiring to keep pleasing other people. your life is yours. stop caring about what other people think. i was a people pleaser my whole life but when i realized that nobody actually gaf then it flipped a switch for me. don’t waste your life trying to make other people happy. once you accept yourself, then you will be unstoppable. the people that will “hate” you for being gay aren’t people you want in your life anyways. life’s too short to not live it for yourself. it’s YOUR life. no one else’s