Father's Day and Gay Pri Month ci June, and rabow flags celebrate both -- and my father.
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'LOVE ALWAYS WS': GAY FATHERS DISCS JOYS AND CHALLENG OF PARENTG MORN AMERI
* gay father's day *
To much of the natn, the flags reprent gay pri — a month voted to the celebratn and support of gay rights. For me, those brightly lored flags reprent my father me out as gay when I was 5 years old. My father would later tell me he knew he was gay for as long as he uld remember.
And workg to keep one foot his “old” world — rated salman, volved father — and one foot his new gay liftyle, he was somethg of a pneer. Makg matters more difficult, my father was fg that new path the 1980s durg the natn’s AIDS crisis, when homophobia and the celty and ignorance of large swaths of Amerins were at heightened levels. There were members of our muny who lerally thought that sharg a meal wh a gay person or swimmg the same pool uld prove adly.
But step by step, my father ched forward, blendg his worlds, slowly but surely helpg those around him to unrstand that beg gay wasn’t somethg to be feared, that beg a dad and beg gay weren’t mutually exclive.