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Contents:

• HOW BEG A GAY UNCLE TO 22 NIEC AND NEPHEWS CHANGED MY PERCEPTN OF PARENTHOOD
• GAY NEPHEW TELLS HIS TEARY-EYED ANTI-LGBTQ+ POLICIAN NT TO STOP LYG ABOUT RELIG OPPRSN
• HOW GAY UNCL PASS DOWN GEN
• THE GAY NEPHEW OF THE LAWMAKER WHO CRIED WHILE VOTG AGAST MARRIAGE EQUALY HAS A MSAGE FOR HER
• LAWMAKER TRI TO STOP AN ANTI-LGBTQ LAW AN EMOTNAL SPEECH ABOUT GAY NEPHEW’S SUICI
• GAY NEPHEW OF GOP REPRENTATIVE: 'GAY MARRIAGE IS NO REASON TO CRY'
• I OFFICIALLY TURNED INTO THE OLD SGLE GAY SPSTER UNCLE TO BE PIED THIS CHRISTMAS

HOW BEG A GAY UNCLE TO 22 NIEC AND NEPHEWS CHANGED MY PERCEPTN OF PARENTHOOD

When my nephew was thirteen years old, his Christmas wish list clud the movie "I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, " a movie about two men pretendg to be gay and gettg married for health-re benefs. As I did rearch for my book, I realized not only was my nephew old enough to watch a film wh a gay theme, but that younger is probably better for children to be troduced to people who are different a few ways yet the same so many others.

The nsens of the people I terviewed was that ’s easier to be more acceptg at an earlier age before kids are exposed to outsi fluenc that may lead to formg negative beliefs or homophobia. I’m not sayg ’s a good ia to throw "Brokeback Mounta" or "Queer as Folk" between episos of "Same Street" but by the time kids get to elementary school, they should not equate gay people wh aliens om outer space. Many gay people I spoke to were like me that they simply weren’t sure if their niec or nephews knew.

One person I terviewed at the Los Angel Gay Pri Para put simply: “When children see two people a lovg relatnship, ’s not really talked about. He had never been told his uncle was gay, but somehow he knew.

GAY NEPHEW TELLS HIS TEARY-EYED ANTI-LGBTQ+ POLICIAN NT TO STOP LYG ABOUT RELIG OPPRSN

Avoidg the discsn of gay issu wh children n end up harmg everyone volved. While ’s certaly beg easier to be out or openly gay today’s world, nflictg msag are still beg put out there as bat over gay rights ntue to igne salac talk the media. Do your niec and nephews know you are gay?

” That opened up the dialogue for my sister to expla to her dghter that her uncle was gay.

She then rmed her dghter that her uncle beg gay has nothg to do wh her [own] sexualy. They had to be a ltle more gentle wh him bee he looks so much like me and so many people tell him that; they wanted to make sure that [he unrstood] people wouldn’t “assume” he was gay bee of the siari.

HOW GAY UNCL PASS DOWN GEN

My son realized there was only one bed the apartment my brother shared [wh his boyiend] and me right out and asked if he was gay. Eddie: I never “me out” and said “I’m gay, ” but I never hid om [my niec and nephews]; they all met my partner and figured out. Rosa: Y, at age ne, my niece saw a picture of me and my partner and asked her mom, my sister, if I was gay.

” or “What’s a gay person? “Now that you know that your uncle is gay—do you feel any differently about him?

Albert: Children should always be raised wh a vobulary that’s clive of gay culture. My niece and nephew clearly unrstood the difference between homosexual and heterosexual and weren’t as offend or shocked as we thought they would be. In an excerpt om the new book "The Guncle Gui, " thor Glenn Garner tails the first experience he had that ma him want to bee a 9, 2020, 10:36 PM UTC / Source: TODAYIn honor of Gay Uncl Day 2020, celebrated annually on the send Sunday Augt, TODAY is featurg an excerpt om the new book "The Guncle Gui" wrten by Glenn, who has gaed a lifetime of knowledge as a gay uncle to 22 niec and nephews, imparts some of that wisdom through heartwarmg anecdot and eful tips and tricks.

THE GAY NEPHEW OF THE LAWMAKER WHO CRIED WHILE VOTG AGAST MARRIAGE EQUALY HAS A MSAGE FOR HER

It was as if that moment, my big gay versn of a blogil clock had begun was the same emotn I felt a few years later when my nephew Kirby was born, shortly before I returned home after graduatg om llege.

That was hontly the first time someone my fay other than my niec and nephews took that kd of tert my future sce I me out as gay. I didn’t yet realize that gay men don’t jump to monogamy wh the recklsns of our straight unterparts, even after we won the long-overdue battle for marriage equaly.

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LAWMAKER TRI TO STOP AN ANTI-LGBTQ LAW AN EMOTNAL SPEECH ABOUT GAY NEPHEW’S SUICI

Andrew Hartzler, the gay nephew of anti-LGBTQ+ Rep. “Today the Uned Stat Congrswoman, my nt Vicki, started cryg bee gay people like me n get married, ” the young man said a TikTok vio, referencg Rep. Her nephew said that, spe g out to her this past Febary, “She’s still jt as much [of] a homophobe.

GAY NEPHEW OF GOP REPRENTATIVE: 'GAY MARRIAGE IS NO REASON TO CRY'

In fact, Andrew Hartzler, who was raised a eply nservative Christian environment, attend Oral Roberts Universy, a school that n expel stunts for beg gay. So the ngrswoman who was cryg about gay marriage has a gay nephew!!

Maybe everyone uld e a gay uncle. A new study found that homosexual men may be predisposed to nurture their niec and nephews as a way of helpg to ensure their own gen get passed down to the next generatn. Rearch has nfirmed that male homosexualy is at least partly heredary – tends to clter fai, and intil tw brothers of gay men are more likely to be gay than aternal tw brothers, who do not share intil scientists have been puzzled about how the gen are perpetuated, sce homosexual mal are ls likely to reproduce than straight mal.

Basilly, why haven't gay people gone extct?

I OFFICIALLY TURNED INTO THE OLD SGLE GAY SPSTER UNCLE TO BE PIED THIS CHRISTMAS

" Perhaps gay men are blogilly predisposed to help raise the offsprg of their siblgs and other relativ. "K therefore pass on more of the gen which they would share wh their homosexual relativ.

Only the latter would help expla how homosexual gen are passed down through generatns. "If fa'afafe have really been selected to be avuncular and this is an adaptatn, then they would not be redirectg rourc to non-k children, " Vasey rearchers published their fdgs a Febary issue of the journal Psychologil k selectn hypothis was first proposed the 1970s, but prev efforts to tt among gay male populatns Wtern societi found no effect.