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In honor of Gay Uncl Day 2020, the send Sunday Augt, thor of new book The Guncle Gui Glenn Garner talks about beg spired to bee a dad.

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

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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.

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

He mmerized on The Wire and Boardwalk Empire, but his gay character on TV as HIV-posive veteran Ken Jon on When We Rise was smooth sailg for the actor and activist. * gay nephews *

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.

HOW GAY UNCL PASS DOWN GEN

Many gay people I spoke to were like me that they simply weren’t sure if their niec or nephews knew.

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

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.

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.

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

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. 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.

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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.

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

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The Gay Nephew Of The Lawmaker Who Cried While Votg Agast Marriage Equaly Has A Msage For Her .

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