My mom was homophobic again today and freaked out after I've shown her a few tats and piercings I think are cool. I thought she'd be chill about it. She was absolutely furious and said it was disgusting. She even said that tats and piercings are worse than being gay. Weird. She said that gay people just disgust her and that tats and piercings make you look like a criminal. Also, for some reason she keeps saying how my middle school groomed me into questioning my sexuality like it wasn't a completely normal thing to question at that age either way?? The only difference for me is that I knew the labels and that I didn't have any internalized homophobia at the time. Sometimes I'm still questioning my sexuality a bit but I obviously don't share it with my mother since each day I just trust her less and less. Also, she's convinced that sexual orientation (bc of the name I guess) is purely a sexual thing. But in my opinion, for most people its more romantic than it is sexual.