Here was my boy actg on his feelgs, givg a gift to another boy he thought was attractive. But as much as I thought was adorable, I also dread moments like the, bee as the father of a gay child, the only thg that really worri me is other people's potential reactns to him.
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YOUR CHILD JT TOLD YOU HE'S GAY. NOW WHAT?
For straight parents, havg a child reveal that he is gay n be a jolt.
You might ask how long he or she has known, and why he feels he is gay, bi, or trans, suggts Jonathan Tobk, M. D., a psychiatrist private practice New York Cy and the -thor of When Your Child Is Gay: What You Need to Know. You n fd one through the Associatn of Gay and Lbian Psychiatrists.
Take the extra step and show your child that you are terted beg the parent of a gay child. Edute yourself on what means to be gay, lbian, bisexual or transgenr.
YOUR CHILD JT TOLD YOU HE'S GAY. NOW WHAT?
PFLAG, or Parents for Lbians and Gays, which now has a group for transgenr youth, and holds natnwi chapters and meetgs;. I don’t thk I’m gay, but I’m not sure if I’m straight. But growg up the mid-’80s suburbs of Dallas, and then San Diego, I also didn’t have a template for such didn’t talk about beg gay my fay, but then, we also didn’t talk about beg straight.
This was the Reagan ‘80s: Beg gay wasn’t somethg one felt fortable openly aspirg to, but my hoe at least, wasn’t somethg to be reviled or feared, eher. I’d never met a gay person, that I knew of anyway, except my mother’s hairdrser (everyone’s hairdrser the ‘80s was gay, right? Gay inty for me was a plete unknown, sort of like the ast of Italy, the magic and mystery of which I would not disver until years later when I had a took years to adm I didn’t want to be a cheerlear, I wanted to be wh a I started to velop feelgs for girls — well to my late teens — I had no language for what I was experiencg.
) Frhman year, I had a csh on a sophomore cheerlear, and tried out for the squad to be closer to her. Y, her iends intify as bi or pan or mi, some more tradnally gay — some even straight! If you're terted learng how the gay rights stggle started — and where we are now — this is the perfect place to start.