What to Do When Your Child Says: "I'm Gay" | Psychology Today

Contents:

• MY 14 YEAR OLD GAY SON IS SEEING A 17 YEAR OLD
• GAY PIMP PROVID 14-YEAR-OLD BOYS FOR MALE CTOMERS
• WHAT TO DO WHEN YOUR CHILD SAYS: "I'M GAY"
• ARE YOUNGER BROTHERS MORE LIKELY TO BE GAY?
• WHAT TO DO WHEN YOUR CHILD SAYS: "I'M GAY"
• ARE YOUNGER BROTHERS MORE LIKELY TO BE GAY?

MY 14 YEAR OLD GAY SON IS SEEING A 17 YEAR OLD

At my school, the very place that I first observed queer cursy, I was sred to e out, fearg my own physil and emotnal wasn’t jt the school locker room where I heard homophobic remarks.

Gay people are an abomatn and are gog to Hell if they don’t get right wh God.

GAY PIMP PROVID 14-YEAR-OLD BOYS FOR MALE CTOMERS

” Years later he warned: “If you turn out gay, I’ll fuck you up. Image me, a young black gay Christian male, tryg to rencile my sexualy wh school, home, and church life. What happens to a black gay Christian who liv a hoehold that hat him; who really believed that he was gog to Hell.

Perhaps was the support of iends, nts, and those around me that ma me not want to feel ashamed about myself anymore, even if that meant God damng me to the begng of senr year, I went om “I’m gay” to whoever asked, to “Can you stop sayg faggot please?

A month later, I cid to no longer participate the mentorship program, and every time I was asked why, I ma exc about beg too time, I retreated to my fantasy world, where I was not sixteen and gay a homophobic environment, but a world where I was olr, the future, when I would arrive to a betiful home om a long day at work, and be weled by a hband who lov me and bears my burns on his shoulrs. I was thrilled to be leavg and movg on, but I uld see that many of my fellow graduat were facg siar hurdl, on that I had enuntered, and had only masked their tth wh homophobia.

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

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ARE YOUNGER BROTHERS MORE LIKELY TO BE GAY?

People who are homosexual are romantilly and physilly attracted to people of the same sex: Femal who are attracted to other femal are lbian; mal who are attracted to other mal are often known as gay. (The term gay is sometim ed to scribe homosexual dividuals of eher sex.

"Am I gay? Beg terted someone of the same sex do not necsarily mean that a person is gay — jt as beg terted someone of the oppose sex don't mean a person is straight. The experienc, by themselv, do not necsarily mean that a person is gay or straight.

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

This abbreviatn stands for "lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr" (or "lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and qutng"). People who are transgenr are often grouped wh lbian and gay as a way to clu people who don't feel they f to the tegory of beg "straight.

Why are some people straight and some people gay?

ARE YOUNGER BROTHERS MORE LIKELY TO BE GAY?

Bee of this, some gay and lbian teens may feel different om their iends when the heterosexual people around them start talkg about romantic feelgs, datg, and sex. A 2012 survey by the Human Rights Campaign found that 92% of LGBT teens had heard negative thgs about beg lbian, gay, bisexual, or transgenr. Some gay or lbian teens tell a few close iends and fay members about their sexual orientatn.

Some live muni or fai where beg gay is not accepted or rpected. This don't happen to all gay teens, of urse.

Many gay and lbian teens and their fai have no more difficulti than anyone else. Whether gay, straight, bisexual, or jt not sure, almost everyone has qutns about physilly maturg and about sexual health — like if certa body chang are "normal, " what's the right way to behave, or how to avoid sexually transmted fectns (STIs). Although not everyone is fortable wh the ia of sexual orientatn differenc and there's still plenty of prejudice around, beg gay is gettg to be ls of a "big al" than ed to be.