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Do you give support for gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and transgendered folks if/when your conservative family brings it up? If they never do, would you? If you would speak in their favor to to your family, I think that'd be integrity enough.
I'm old enough and cynical enough to believe that truth is a medicine not suited to all ailments. Frankly, polite society has functioned largely by muffling truth, for thousands of years. The question is, what's best for your family, and you? If you feel that concealing your sexuality would be best for your family, and you are alright with doing it, do so. But if doing so seems increasingly distasteful -- what we're really talking about here is you being true to yourself, not to anyone else or to an ideal -- then you may have to come out. Because contact with your family will become more and more difficult, less and less pleasant.
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