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• ‘HI MOM, I’M GAY’: A COMG OUT STORY, AND WHY LGBTQ PRI IS SO IMPORTANT
• HOW TO TELL YOUR MOM YOU ARE GAY
• MOM, I'M GAY
• 'HI MOM, I'M GAY': A COMG OUT STORY, AND WHY LGBTQ PRI IS SO IMPORTANT

‘HI MOM, I’M GAY’: A COMG OUT STORY, AND WHY LGBTQ PRI IS SO IMPORTANT

A gay son and a lbian dghter. J and R are bt iends, and they each have a secret - they are both gay.

It took what felt like an hour for the words to shape between my teeth and lips but somehow the words fell on the receiver: “I thk I’m gay.

I mean, I knew I was gay, but I thought sayg “I thk” might lsen the blow to my mother.

HOW TO TELL YOUR MOM YOU ARE GAY

And hontly, I didn’t want to be gay. Beg gay wasn’t ol at all yet. But I knew I was gay, and, 2000, I was growg weary of a 13-year performance as a straight person.

Still, beg gay was often quickly associated wh AIDS and ath, and transgenr folks were hardly beg regnized as human yet. I found out the reason he was askg was bee a weekly relig study he attends has a lear who assum there’s somethg missg om my life bee I don’t intify as a Christian and I’m livg an openly-gay liftyle.

But I am gay.

MOM, I'M GAY

The qutn wasn’t exactly triggerg but ma me thk of the emotnal unpackg I’ve had to do as a person raised wh the belief system that beg gay is wrong. I explaed to my iend that this iology or dogma of “beg gay is evil” ultimately be ternalized and LGBTQ people enter to a perd of ep-rooted self loathg. I wrote an article back June sayg that pri is sentially the oppose of shame; that LGBTQ people celebrate pri bee we’ve ultimately procsed our ternalized homophobia and ep-rooted shame, survived that perd and have e out to other end of .

Shorty after the Pulse night club shootg 2016, I wrote a song lled “Growg Up Gay.

'HI MOM, I'M GAY': A COMG OUT STORY, AND WHY LGBTQ PRI IS SO IMPORTANT

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