Growg up wh a gay father created challeng for both my Dad & I. His journey out of the Bible Belt & closet was not easy. Most importantly though . . .
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HOW I ACCINTALLY FOUND OUT MY DAD IS GAY
This award wng anthology eded by Gee Stambolian featur his own short story about a gay Armenian-Amerin man's relatnship wh his dad. * george my father's gay *
"My father's gay! In late 1980, at a support group for gay fathers, my dad met Lnel –– the man wh whom he would spend the next 23 years. He had seemed kd of lost his new life – phg 60, recently divorced om my mother, recently out of the closet as gay man.
He asked that I march wh him, alongsi the other gay fathers and their kids, the Los Angel Pri Para.
GROWG UP WH A GAY FATHER – CONFSNS OM A STRAIGHT SON
What I do remember was that someone had ma T-shirts that said "I LOVE MY GAY DAD" and I refed to wear one. I told my dad, “I love you, but not bee you’re gay.
” The tth, though, is that I lacked the urage to stand all the way up for my father and his ras agast a homophobic and different world.
I probably left my "I LOVE MY GAY DAD" T-shirt next to the box had e out of, though I might have taken home wh me and buried a drawer. Pete Wilson’s office, or at the Natnal March on Washgton for Lbian and Gay dad and his hband lost a lot of iends to AIDS. Even when I was an obnox 22-year-old and wouldn’t put on a T-shirt to clare, unashamed, unembarrassed and unapologetic, that I love my gay dad.