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. 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.
YOUR CHILD JT TOLD YOU HE'S GAY. NOW WHAT?
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.