How can you handle when friends aren't accepting of you being LGBTQ?

Find new friends. Seriously. Find new friends. Go online, go to the next town over. People who don't accept you for who you are, are probably not worth your time and energy.

If they can't accept it, then they aren't true friends. Surround yourself with compassionate, understanding people. Distance yourself from the worms in your apple.

You can try to discuss it with them, explain open-heartedly how you feel and what it means to be who you are, offer to answer any question they may have and clarify any doubt or perplexity. If you make an effort to open your heart to them and they still reject you, you might want to ask yourself if you can really call a friend a person that does not accept who you are and doesn't make an effort to open their mind and understand you.

Personally, this is a simple one for me: they aren't your friends. You can try to educate them, usually being more aware of a topic will make you more accepting of it but that is no guarantee. At the end of the day, you should be around people who support you and make you happy, you have to consider that before calling someone your friend.

Well, that depends. Are they willing to accept you? Sometimes, friends may just not understand the differences between you. Explaining it to them calmly can help. If they still don't understand and are flat-out unwilling to be friends with you, that's okay. It's not your fault some people are allergic to fabulous.

If your friends wint accept you being LGBTQ+ polietly say "that is your opinion" and leave it at that.

"Those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind" if they don't accept you or don't eventually accept you then they aren't truly your friends. you should drop them and find a group that with love you

They aren't friends of you if they don't accept and respect your choices. Try to talk to them, make them understand how that makes you feel.

That must be really difficult for you. I guess that you should give them some time. If they really care about you they will come around. People are homophobic because they don't understand that we're more than our sexual orientation. That we're all distinct individuals and that being queer is not just about sleeping with certain genders and not others. They'll end up realizing that because of you and that's a beautiful thing. They'll realize you're the same person that you were before your coming out and that you can fall in love exactly like they do. In the end we're all humans, and tolerance is something you learn.

Try to reason with them. Tell them this is who you are, who always be this ways and there’s no diffrent then and now. If they care about you as much as you care about their feelings, they will try to understand even they don’t completely. They will never exclude you for you being you. But if not, pay them no mind. Your feelings matter than what their thought of your sexuality. Don’t be ashamed just because they don’t accept you being gay. They’re not accepting because they don’t understand. (yet) Tell them you have interesting things than your sexuality.