Marcia Gay Harn explas why her kids spire her LGTBQ+ advocy | CNN

Contents:

• CARY GRANT’S DGHTER SLAMS SPECULATN IN WAS GAY: ‘I NEVER SAW A HT OF THAT’
• MARCIA GAY HARN SAYS ALL THREE OF HER ADULT KIDS INTIFY AS QUEER
• THE TE STORY BEHD THE CHENEY FAY FD OVER GAY MARRIAGE AND CHENEY'S GAY DGHTER
• BEG DAD TO A GAY DGHTER
• PARENTS OF GAY CHILDREN AND THE ISSU THEY FACE
• GLORIA ESTEFAN OFFERED TO 'CARRY' GAY FLAG AT PRI FOR DGHTER EY BEFORE SHE CAME OUT
• WHEN MY DGHTER SAID, 'I'M GAY'
• ‘A FAY LIKE OURS’: PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERHOOD
• HEATHER GAY'S DGHTER OPENS UP ABOUT HER DECISN TO LEAVE THE MORMON CHURCH
• GAY MEN AND THEIR FATHERS: HURT AND HEALG
• ‘I HAVE A WONRFUL DGHTER, WHO IS GAY, AND A HOMOPHOBIC MOTHER’
• WHAT TO DO WHEN YOUR CHILD SAYS: "I'M GAY"
• "ALMOST LOOKS ILLEGAL": FAY DICK'S DADDY'S LTLE BOY GAY PORNOGRAPHY SERI AND ITS TOO-YOUNG LOOK

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. 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.

MARCIA GAY HARN SAYS ALL THREE OF HER ADULT KIDS INTIFY AS QUEER

“Homo.

Actrs Marcia Gay Harn’s advocy for LGTBQ muny is motivated, she says, by they love she has her three of adult kids who all intify as queer. My son is gay.

“Gay is here to stay.

THE TE STORY BEHD THE CHENEY FAY FD OVER GAY MARRIAGE AND CHENEY'S GAY DGHTER

Adam* said was dangero to e out as gay his home untry and feared beg forced to an arranged marriage wh a said he was "so lucky" to wed his soulmate, Ray, Manchter and wish everyone uld marry who they love. There are more than 60 untri wh laws that crimalise same-sex sexual acts acrdg to the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn, cludg Sdi Arabia.

'Authentilly myself'Ray said he had also stggled growg up gay the 1970s and 80s England, which was "tough" said his relig school "dmmed to you, 'you are gog to hell'" Adam returned home to Sdi Arabia, spe beg more than 3, 000 apart and later rtricted by the Covid-19 panmic, they kept touch daily and the romance years ago, Ray proposed on a vio ll and after succsfully applyg for a UK fiancé visa, Adam moved to Manchter December 2022. Adam said he had been aaid to even wear lours his home untry so the first thg he did when he moved was start to "grow my mullet, got my ears pierced and booked appotments for tattoos" relled how, ntrast, one of his gay iends Sdi had been forced to marry a woman, addg: "It has ed not only his life but the life of his wife. The uple, who live London, said a "really betiful memory" was on the way home when one of their sons shouted out of the black b wdow to Trafalgar Square, "My dads jt got married" and cheered "Yay, gay marriage".

Realy TV star Duane Chapman, known as Dog the Bounty Hunter, went on a homophobic and transphobic rant an terview this week, threateng vlence agast transgenr fluencer Dylan Mulvaney.

BEG DAD TO A GAY DGHTER

”Bonnie Chapman has prevly acced her father of beg racist and homophobic, but she also mentned that he once said he’d give his life to fend a gay man. While a junr high school, Mary me out to her fay as gay. Her parents rpond wh affirmatns, though her mother said she was wary of a future ma potentially harr by the world's homophobia.

Long before Liz entered the polil arena herself, where she ultimately renounced gay marriage, the vice print seemed to have mastered a tricky balancg act. A leadg Republin at a time when the party was mpaigng on forbiddg gay marriage, he voiced support for Mary, who was then a long-term relatnship wh her later wife, Heather Poe.

PARENTS OF GAY CHILDREN AND THE ISSU THEY FACE

"Lynne and I have a gay dghter, so 's an issue our fay is very faiar wh, " he explaed to supporters at a mpaign rally Iowa, addg, "Wh the rpect to the qutn of relatnships, my general view is eedom means eedom for everyone.

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

A hopeful for the Republin nomatn a eply red part of the untry, Liz began to receive angry msag and TV attack ads that acced her of "aggrsively promot[g] gay marriage, " Poli reported. "I am strongly pro-life and I am not pro-gay marriage, " she said.

WHEN MY DGHTER SAID, 'I'M GAY'

Even now after two years, ’s hard for some fay to my wife, the acceptance of our dghter beg gay was simple and easy as she had seen the wrg on the wall for years. As a Christian who believ the Bible, I know the vers pertag to homosexualy and what the early church thought of those who were gay.

I’ve known of others who have lerally kicked their child out of the hoe for announcg they were gay. I may not have unrstood at the time why, nor how to al wh my dghter beg gay, but she was my dghter, and I would love her, and protect her wh my a uple of weeks of searchg and prayer, boiled down to five vers the Book of Matthew:1“Do not judge lt you be judged.

‘A FAY LIKE OURS’: PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERHOOD

Parents of gay children may be shocked when their kids e out of the closet, but once the dt settl, most parents realize that their child is the same one they have loved and red for all their liv, they jt happen to be gay. And while parental acceptance is one hurdle for a gay child, there are many other issu facg gay kids and their parents.

HEATHER GAY'S DGHTER OPENS UP ABOUT HER DECISN TO LEAVE THE MORMON CHURCH

Issu for parents of gay kids as intified by Parents, Fai and Friends of Lbians and Gays (PFLAG), clu:1. Fay acceptance – n the rt of the fay accept the gay child as the parents of the gay child has.

GAY MEN AND THEIR FATHERS: HURT AND HEALG

Hate crim preventn – workg to prevent gay bashg and other forms of hate crim agast gay kids.

Health – addrsg the health ncerns of gay kids as they e to adulthood.

Relatnship regnn – workg to achieve equal rights and regnn for gay relatnships as for heterosexual relatnships.

‘I HAVE A WONRFUL DGHTER, WHO IS GAY, AND A HOMOPHOBIC MOTHER’

Safe schools – parents of gay children ensurg a safe learng environment. Workplace fairns – supportg the gay child and any issu they face when enterg the workforce. Parentg a Gay Child – Signs of a Gay Child.

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

Sometim, long before a child out as gay, a parent spects that a child might be gay. It may be that the child bucks tradnal genr stereotyp or they may not show attentn to the oppose sex; but are the signs of a gay child? Acrdg to some rearch, genr atypil behavr may, fact, be an ditor that the child may grow up to be gay.

"ALMOST LOOKS ILLEGAL": FAY DICK'S DADDY'S LTLE BOY GAY PORNOGRAPHY SERI AND ITS TOO-YOUNG LOOK

So, for example, boys that play wh dolls and have primarily girliends or girls who are tomboys and prefer to play wh guns may have an creased likelihood of growg up to be gay.

Another sign your child might be gay is if he is a male that choos more solary sports such as cyclg or swimmg. There also appears to be a relatnship where the more a child shows genr-nonnformg characteristics, the greater the chance that they may grow up to be gay. It's important to thk about why a parent r about havg a gay child though.

While knowg your child is gay may help you ease the transn to adulthood, 's cril to remember that a gay child is jt a child like any other and a parent of gay child is jt a parent, like any other. Parents of gay kids mt e to accept and love their children for who they are and not bee of their sexualy. Support for Parents of Gay Children.