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Contents:
- BORN GAY, BORN THIS WAY: A PHOTO BLOG
- THE GAY HISTORY OF AMERI’S CLASSIC CHILDREN’S BOOKS
- WHEN DO GAY KIDS START “ACTG GAY”?
- BORN THIS WAY: CHILDHOOD PHOTOS OF GAY ADULTS
- SHOW US A PICTURE YOU HAVE AS A KID THAT SCREAMS YOU WERE "BORN THIS WAY" AND BY THAT I MEAN "GUH GUH GUH GAY"
BORN GAY, BORN THIS WAY: A PHOTO BLOG
A blog lled Born This Way pairs childhood photos wh first-person says on beg gay. * gay childhood picture *
" do somethg very simple: It pairs a snapshot of a gay person as a kid wh a personal say about what he or she se when lookg at the photo. "Lookg at now, as a 31-year-old, only reaffirms what I've always believed — that my beg gay wasn't a choice. The blog's edor, a DJ Los Angel who go by Pl V, attempts to pre-empt one issue the blog's about page: "So, some of the pix here feature gay boys wh feme tras, and some gay girls wh mascule tras.
And even more gay kids wh NONE of those tras. Jt like real life, the gay kids e all shas and layers of mascule and feme. At this pot my life I lived a blissfully unaware gay liftyle: Havg all female iends, really REALLY likg Catwoman, and always tryg on my iends' fake, plastic, high-heeled sho when I went to their hoe.
I actually didn't realize I was even close to beg gay until my graduatg year of high school, so this photo is one of those thgs I look at now and thk to myself — "How did I NOT know?! We didn't have the word "gay" when I was a child, only the word "sissy! To that end, I realized very late life, when I was 18, that I was gay.
THE GAY HISTORY OF AMERI’S CLASSIC CHILDREN’S BOOKS
The blog Born This Way publish hilar (and poignant) childhood photos and stori om gay and lbian adults. It don't look like a choice. * gay childhood picture *
"Featurg me AND my ltle brother, who is also gay! I ll this picture, 'Blue, Blue, Brown, Brown, Gay. "I'm a gay trans man who lov drs.
"Let's jt say didn't really e as a shock to anybody when I turned out to be a gay trans man. "A baby gay wh legs for days. Over at the blog Born This Way a proud gay Angeleno, intified only as Pl V., publish childhood photos and stori om gay and lbian adults.
As Pl explas: some of the pix here feature gay boys wh feme tras, and some gay girls wh mascule tras. The pot of the project, for Pl, is reflectg the tth of growg up wh a different orientatn and, hopefully, showg today's gay youth that others have had the same Eyeteeth.
WHEN DO GAY KIDS START “ACTG GAY”?
"My mom always says she knew I was gay as soon as I popped out of the womb. "You get one gus for which kid here is an out, gay adult today. "I didn't know I was gay yet, but my mom's shirt sure did.
BORN THIS WAY: CHILDHOOD PHOTOS OF GAY ADULTS
Niche '80s gay child! ” It’s about a t who liv wh two gay men; you n tell by the book, then jt published, was evintly meant to help normalize already borgly normal fai like ours by g the tradnal substutn of animals for people orr to illtrate how much fun havg gay dads n be. ) And if you stopped to thk about , “Lucy” seemed to argue that the gay dads, however full of fun, were aquate: When the pa chips were down, they need rcug, too.
Among gay-themed children’s stori, they preferred “Frog and Toad. ” No, I know: “Frog and Toad” — a seri of four picture books by Arnold Lobel, origally published between 1970 and 1979 — is not gay-themed.
But ’s not not gay-themed eher. They get to scrap separately but get out of them together, which is not a bad fn of left: Jam Marshall, “Gee and Martha, ” urty of Houghton Miffl Harurt; Arnold Lobel, “Frog and Toad are Friends” © 1970 Arnold Lobel, ed by permissn of HarperColls Publishers; Jam Marshall, “Miss Nelson is Missg!, ” urty of Houghton Miffl HarurtOur boys loved the stori, as did we — but not bee Lobel was gay. They ntued to make books together for years: a Frog and Toad tale if ever there was, Lobel’s gayns, when I learned of much later, seemed like somethg I should have known all along; lurked everywhere his words and pictur.
SHOW US A PICTURE YOU HAVE AS A KID THAT SCREAMS YOU WERE "BORN THIS WAY" AND BY THAT I MEAN "GUH GUH GUH GAY"
Which is not to say Frog and Toad uld turn you gay.
They suggted, no ls to as gay parents than to our sons wh their polar personali, how separatens uld bee solidary and oddns acmodatn. However d the books’ gay ntent, was no surprise once d.
It’s also that all of their thors were gay. As if that weren’t enough, he referred to the gay muny, who took him as one of their own whether he liked or not, as “l boys. Sss and Shel Silverste were prumably heterosexual, no matter that Silverste glowered om the photos on his book jackets like a hot Scff by permissn of HarperColls, urty of Children’s Lerature Collectn, UMNBut remas the se that the thors of many of the most succsful and fluential works of children’s lerature the middle years of the last century — works that were formative for baby boomers, Gen-Xers, lennials and beyond — were gay.