Gay Parents

Contents:

• THE CHILDREN OF GAY PARENTS SPEAK FOR THEMSELV
• GAY PARENTS
• KANE LIM B, WIKI, AGE, PARENTS, DATG, GAY, NET WORTH AND BLG EMPIRE

THE CHILDREN OF GAY PARENTS SPEAK FOR THEMSELV

Fai n talk about Empire's portrayal of what 's like beg gay the Ain-Amerin muny. What's the show's pot of view when to homophobia and tolerance?

And do you thk the seri uld spark more posive nversatns about gay acceptance, particularly wh fai? “My mom is gay, ” she explaed. ” She had never met another person who was raised by a gay parent.

” Eventually she nnected wh COLAGE (Children of Lbians and Gays Everywhere) and found a muny of people who shared a siar childhood: the jugglg of silence and isolatn, the fendg of parents on the playground. The children of gay parents aren’t “hypothetil”: They’re real and they’re ok. Allison, raised Connecticut and Vermont by her mom and her mom's partner: “As soon as I found out [my new school] had a gay-straight alliance I jt— was amazg, to know that there are other kids my age—to realize that they were supportive of LGBT people.

GAY PARENTS

I wasn't the only one who knew gay people and wasn't this dark secret that I had to hi.

If you look at the vast majory of thgs that fe who my moms are, or who my fay is, 's really no more accurate to say that my moms are gay married, than to say they are Packers-fan married, or work--healthre married. Mark, raised Pennsylvania by his mom and his dad, who me out when he was llege: “My dad is gay.

I had an clatn that my dad was gay om the very begng of time. Elizabeth, raised Boston by her mom and dad who me out when she was llege: “He said, 'It's time for me to nont my inty’ and I asked 'Are you gay? ' And I thk the next words out of my mouth were, 'Dad, I'm pretty sure you're gay.

KANE LIM B, WIKI, AGE, PARENTS, DATG, GAY, NET WORTH AND BLG EMPIRE

” At Right: Lren, raised Kansas Cy, Missouri, by her mom and dad, who me out when she was 7: “The fact that my parents were divorced way overshadowed the fact that my dad was gay. Lus, raised Gaville, Florida, by his divorced dad and mom, who me out when he was 15: “My mom beg gay was always really easy for me to accept bee I was brought up a way to accept all people. If the suatn was worse for my mom, if was harr to be gay than is for her, then I probably would be more termed to fight for her rights.

Where I grew up, no one was gay, nobody talked about . But here, everyone you meet is gay and everyone talks about and 's a great thg. In the fall of 1973, New York began placg queer children wh queer parents wh the aid of the Natnal Gay Task Force, a new gay-rights anizatn based Manhattan.