Your Child Jt Told You He's Gay. Now What? | Psychology Today

Contents:

• WOULD YOU RATHER HAVE A GAY SON OR X
• YOUR CHILD JT TOLD YOU HE'S GAY. NOW WHAT?
• MORN DOS AND DON'TS FOR PARENTS OF GAY KIDS G OUT
• IS YOUR CHILD GAY?
• IS MY SON GAY OR IS A PHASE?

WOULD YOU RATHER HAVE A GAY SON OR X

Would You Rather Have A Gay Son Or X, also known as Thug Son or Gay Son, is a hypothetil Would You Rather?

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

Qutn ed a seri of mem askg whether the viewer would rather have a gay son or a send optn, often another "type of son" or somethg ironic and absurd.

MORN DOS AND DON'TS FOR PARENTS OF GAY KIDS G OUT

Versns of the phrasal template first appeared onle late 2016, spired by the hypothetil "gay son or thot dghter" meme, seeg e as an exploable over the followg years. Gay Son or Thot Dghter Precursor. In 2012, hypothetil discsns about whether you'd rather have a gay son or thot dghter started to bee popular onle after rapper Troy Ave tweeted that year, "#IfYouHad2PickOneChild Retard Son | 2.

A Gay Son | 3. Gay Son or Thug Son.

IS YOUR CHILD GAY?

Sometime 2015, Instagram er dreheron posted an image macro showg two si-by-si imag of himself, the one on the left showg him short-shorts and a choker, and the one on the left lookg more "gangster" ptned "would you rather have a gay son or thug son" (shown below). On Augt 26th, 2016, an Imgur[1] er posted an image showg si-by-si photos of two Black children, one brandishg a gun and smokg weed on the left[2] and one wearg a crop top and tight jeans on the right, unr the ptn, "Would you rather have a 14 year old Savage son who smoke weed and shoot guns or a 12 year old gay son, " gag over 4, 400 views six years (shown below).

On November 2nd of that year, Facebook[3] page GQ Gansta Quot posted an image macro g the same image of the kid brandishg the gun on the left and a different image of a Black man a crop top and tight jeans on the right, ptned, "would you rather have a thug son or gay son, " gag over 160 reactns, 200 ments and 162 shar six years (shown below). 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.

IS MY SON GAY OR IS A PHASE?

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;. Growg up, I was a tomboy — or what Larry David would later ll “pre-gay.