Is Your Child Gay? - Scientific Amerin

Contents:

• I’M 14, I’M GAY & I WANT A BOYIEND
• AM I GAY? (QUIZ FOR TEENAGE BOYS)
• THE DIGAL SEX LIV OF YOUNG GAY TEENAGERS
• WHEN DO GAY KIDS START “ACTG GAY”?
• UNSEEN, PART 3: POPULAR GAY DATG APP GRDR POS EXPLOATN RISK TO MORS
• IS YOUR CHILD GAY?

I’M 14, I’M GAY & I WANT A BOYIEND

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AM I GAY? (QUIZ FOR TEENAGE BOYS)

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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. ” Years later he warned: “If you turn out gay, I’ll fuck you up.

THE DIGAL SEX LIV OF YOUNG GAY TEENAGERS

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.

WHEN DO GAY KIDS START “ACTG GAY”?

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. Fourteen year old Lee tells about first sex, boyiends, g out, paedophilia, and why an age of nsent of 16 won’t help unr-age gays like him. Wearg a whe T-shirt and bat troers, his sophistited gay image mak him look olr than 14.

UNSEEN, PART 3: POPULAR GAY DATG APP GRDR POS EXPLOATN RISK TO MORS

The age of nsent laws don’t make easy for Lee to have a stable gay relatnship. The law says that a homosexual act wh a male unr 16 is a ser crime, even if the person mtg the act is himself below the age of 16.

Lee is jt one of a growg number of lbians and gays who are g out at an ever earlier age…twelve, thirteen and fourteen is not unmon nowadays. Rearch published by Project Sigma 1993 shows that 9 percent of gay men had their first homosexual experience by the age of 10, 19 percent by the age of 12, and 35 per cent by the age of 14.

IS YOUR CHILD GAY?

Yet most gay mpaign groups seem only terted the human rights of the over-16s. “There’s nothg much for young gays like me”, says Lee.

Lee first realised he was gay at the age of eight.

Well, he didn’t ll himself gay. “My first gay sex was wh a iend om school lled John. How did you feel about your first gay experience?