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Contents:

• CARY GRANT’S DGHTER SLAMS SPECULATN IN WAS GAY: ‘I NEVER SAW A HT OF THAT’
• GLORIA ESTEFAN OFFERED TO 'CARRY' GAY FLAG AT PRI FOR DGHTER EY BEFORE SHE CAME OUT
• WHEN MY DGHTER SAID, 'I'M GAY'
• I N'T FIVE MY DGHTER FOR BEG GAY
• WHAT TO DO WHEN YOUR CHILD SAYS: "I'M GAY"
• HOW CHRISTIAN PARENTS SHOULD RPOND TO THEIR CHILD'S GAY INTY CRISIS
• DOG THE BOUNTY HUNTER’S OWN DGHTER SLAMS HIS ANTI-GAY TIRA
• PARENTS OF GAY CHILDREN AND THE ISSU THEY FACE
• MANY PARENTS STGGLE TO ADJT AFTER LEARNG CHILD IS GAY, STUDY FDS
• MARIE OSMOND TALKS GAY MARRIAGE, LBIAN DGHTER JSI IN NEW INTERVIEW
• RORY FEEK STGGLED TO ACCEPT THAT DGHTER IS GAY: 'MY JOB IS TO LOVE HER EVEN WHEN IT'S HARD'

CARY GRANT’S DGHTER SLAMS SPECULATN IN WAS GAY: ‘I NEVER SAW A HT OF THAT’

Jennifer Grant ni that the Old Hollywood screen star was homosexual.

Now, Grant’s dghter, Jennifer, is shuttg down allegatns that her famo dad was really gay. Jennifer shut down mors that her father was homosexual.

GLORIA ESTEFAN OFFERED TO 'CARRY' GAY FLAG AT PRI FOR DGHTER EY BEFORE SHE CAME OUT

While Grant — who died 1986 — fashned a persona for himself where he was a ladi’ man, njecture that he was a homosexual still spun throughout his life.

Jennifer also touched upon the age-old talk about her dad her 2011 memoir, “Good Stuff: A Remiscence of My Father, Cary Grant” — which ments that she ma rulted hate mail allegg that she was homophobic. “When the qutn aris, generally speaks more about the person askg … Dad somewhat enjoyed beg lled gay.

The “Philalphia Story” actor even had to battle the gay mors jt a few years before his passg. “Homo. "I remember beg my bedroom and tellg you, 'Mama, are you gay?

WHEN MY DGHTER SAID, 'I'M GAY'

"'Do you want to rry the gay flag, bee if you want I will get on that para float and I will rry that flag? "You said to me, 'Mom, I'm not gay, '" Gloria says.

The note said, "I am gay. Now, she has e out as gay and I look at her - wh her short hair and mascule cloth, - and wonr where did we as parents go wrong? If I'm hont, I probably felt a twge of relief that she was settlg down bee I had harboured fleetg ncerns that she might be gay.

I'd known gay people the past at work and had never been prejudiced towards them - had never bothered me.

I N'T FIVE MY DGHTER FOR BEG GAY

It wasn't that I had anythg agast homosexuals: was simply that wasn't what I wished for my own child.

I thk every parent wants their child to have a smooth passage through life, and I felt that beg gay would always be a problem. It seems trendy the days for parents to claim they 'accept' their children's sexualy if they are gay. After all, he om a generatn when beg gay certaly wasn't somethg ever discsed.

I do tell people that Sarah is gay - and they only have to see her to gus. When I tell people that my other dghter Heather is married, people n ask about whether she has children and how old they once you've told someone your dghter is gay, you n see them flailg around, sperately searchg for the right words. Perhaps 's her way of bbg my nose , or her attempt to make me accept she's gay.

WHAT TO DO WHEN YOUR CHILD SAYS: "I'M GAY"

Her gay life is somethg I jt don't unrstand.

I have met lots of Sarah's other lbian and gay iends and they are very nice, but I adm she go to gay clubs and is volved a 'scene' that I jt nnot image. Mum may thk she had some fluence over my sexualy, but she needn't feel guilty bee fact I've known I was gay sce I was very young - I jt sperately tried not to be. My belief is that ep down Mum knew I was gay, even when I married Tony, but she uldn't face .

HOW CHRISTIAN PARENTS SHOULD RPOND TO THEIR CHILD'S GAY INTY CRISIS

For some reason, Mum seems to thk that bee I am gay, children are out of the qutn.

However, the fact that I'm gay don't stop me wantg children.

It's only recently I have tly accepted myself as gay. When parents learn that their child is gay, lbian, bisexual, or transgenr, they n experience a range of emotns.

DOG THE BOUNTY HUNTER’S OWN DGHTER SLAMS HIS ANTI-GAY TIRA

As a matter of fact, you might someday look back and fd that you are grateful for the experience of havg a gay or lbian child. Well, my study of 65 fai of gay and lbian youth for the book, Comg Out, Comg Home: Helpg Fai Adjt to a Gay or Lbian Child, I found that some parents get to the pot where they believe that the experience of havg a gay child actually ma them a better person—more open-md and sensive to the needs of others, particularly those other mory groups. If you jt found out your child is gay, lbian, bisexual, or transgenr, you may be thkg that such ias are prepostero.

PARENTS OF GAY CHILDREN AND THE ISSU THEY FACE

The tstworthy nfidants let them vent but also rrected some of the misperceptns they absorbed om society, such as that gay people are lonely, unhappy, promiscuo, not fay-oriented, unable to have children, or sted for an unhappy life. Contact Parents, Fay, and Friends of Lbians and Gays (PFLAG). List of Helpful Books for Parents of Gay and Lbian Children.

Straight Parents Gay Children: Keepg Fai Together (revised edn).

MANY PARENTS STGGLE TO ADJT AFTER LEARNG CHILD IS GAY, STUDY FDS

Beyond Acceptance: Parents of Lbians, and Gays Talk About Their Experienc.

Somethg to Tell You: The Road Fai Travel when a Child is Gay. Comg Out, Comg Home: Helpg Fai Adjt to a Gay or Lbian Child. Fortunate Fai: Catholic fai wh lbian dghters and gay sons.

Mom, Dad, I'm Gay: How Fai Negotiate Comg Out. When a child first out to their parents as eher beg gay or havg same-sex attractn, their ial rpons are ually the wrong on, says Chris Doyle, a psychotherapist who specializ York Cy gay pri para crowd this undated photo. "Sce homosexualy is beg more wily accepted Amerin society, an creasg number of teens who experience SSA are intifyg as gay.

MARIE OSMOND TALKS GAY MARRIAGE, LBIAN DGHTER JSI IN NEW INTERVIEW

They believe that if you experience same-sex attractns, then you're gay, " Doyle told the negative rpons parents have, acrdg to Doyle, are avoidg the issue by barrg their child om talkg about SSA or their gay inty; believg that 's a passg phase; or threateng to kick their olr teen or 20-somethg child out of the hoe. He also emphasized that parents nnot talk their child out of beg gay or havg SSA.

RORY FEEK STGGLED TO ACCEPT THAT DGHTER IS GAY: 'MY JOB IS TO LOVE HER EVEN WHEN IT'S HARD'

"We know, our clil rearch over the last 25 years, that fay culture, environment and other non-blogil factors play a signifint role the velopment of same-sex attractn, " he asserted, addg that parents shouldn't seek therapy as an attempt to change their the book, Gay Children, Straight Parents: A Plan for Fay Healg, wrten by Richard Cohen, executive director of IHF, Doyle said 12 prcipl are discsed to help fai navigate through SSA and s . "Regardg sleepovers and big life events such as parents' attendg a child's same-sex weddg ceremony, Doyle suggted that parents treat their homosexual child the same as they would their heterosexual the se of sleepovers, parents should mata the same standards for every child and not allow their gay intified or SSA child to have somone they're attracted to spend the night wh them. "The same l should apply to heterosexual upl and homosexual upl, " he when down to attendg a child's gay weddg ceremony, Doyle suggted that attendg the ceremony don't necsarily reflect that the parents agree wh same-sex marriage, their prence merely shows their love for their child.

Over the years, Magic and Cookie have been open about their rponsibili as parents — like when Magic told Ellen DeGener that he was "so happy" when their son EJ me out as gay. EJ publicly me out as gay 2013, though he me out to his fay several years earlier.

In 2014, EJ told PEOPLE that, although his parents "pretty much already knew" that he was gay, they were worried about the public's reactn.