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Contents:
- HOW I ACCINTALLY FOUND OUT MY DAD IS GAY
- MY DAD COMG OUT AS GAY CHANGED OUR LIV — AND GAVE ME THE COURAGE TO BE MYSELF
- GROWG UP WH A GAY FATHER – CONFSNS OM A STRAIGHT SON
- THE GAY FATHER I NEVER KNEW
- IM GAY AND IM ATTRACTED TO MY FATHER..
- AFTER 20 YEARS OF MARRIAGE, MY DAD CAME OUT AS GAY
- I'M 57 YEARS OLD AND MY FATHER JT DISOWNED ME FOR BEG GAY
HOW I ACCINTALLY FOUND OUT MY DAD IS GAY
Growg up wh a gay father created challeng for both my Dad & I. His journey out of the Bible Belt & closet was not easy. Most importantly though . . . * my dad gay *
My brother picked up the word for "gay" – a word my dad repeated several tim durg that that pot, my parents had told they had problems their marriage, but a few months later, when I was around ne years old, we still went on our annual fay summer holiday to France. Until, out of nowhere, my brother sudnly asked, "Dad, are you gay? "There aren't a lot of gay people out there wh a wife and children, " he told me.
I once tagged along wh him to his favoure gay bar, where I met all the iends he's ma there over the years. I'm gay.
MY DAD COMG OUT AS GAY CHANGED OUR LIV — AND GAVE ME THE COURAGE TO BE MYSELF
I n't remember exactly what I unrstood of the word "gay" at that pot my life, but whether me om hearg my classmat e to disparage our peers or the nate unrstandg that s existence our life meant plete and utter change to our fay dynamic, I stantly registered the word as synonymo wh "bad. The word "gay" was not a taboo word our hoe.
I never hated to pull asi even the tought bulli after hearg them make fun of our gay classmat to give them a piece of my md, and I preached csantly about why the f-word should be dropped om everyone's vobulari anytime was uttered my prence.
GROWG UP WH A GAY FATHER – CONFSNS OM A STRAIGHT SON
We would se together as adults and share stori om our childhoods about our gay parents that others wouldn't unrstand.
THE GAY FATHER I NEVER KNEW
It's te that children of gay adults tend to grow up quicker than most bee we e to know a different world at an early age that some adults are not yet able to fully prehend. But I knew he was gay by the time I was 7 or 8. So this is my story of growg up wh a gay father.
Growg up wh a gay father, particularly one who was aaid to e out, prented challeng our abily to get emotnally close.
IM GAY AND IM ATTRACTED TO MY FATHER..
I don’t rell a time when I didn’t know my Dad was gay.
From my earlit memori of my Dad around age 5, I thk I always knew my dad was gay.
AFTER 20 YEARS OF MARRIAGE, MY DAD CAME OUT AS GAY
Th I never had that aha moment of realizg “I have a gay father”!
I'M 57 YEARS OLD AND MY FATHER JT DISOWNED ME FOR BEG GAY
To hear both of them tell , my Dad beg gay wasn’t a factor the spl. How my Dad me to terms wh beg gay. I don’t thk anyone knew yet that my Dad was gay.
After all, he was the son of a Baptist Preacher and there would not have been much tolerance the 1940’s or 50’s for him to e out as gay. In talkg to both of them over the years, they both claim they had no ia my Dad was gay.