What is like to have a gay siblg?
Contents:
- MATTHEW RHYS ON HIS 'REHG' GAY CHARACTER ON 'BROTHERS & SISTERS'
- BROTHERS AND SISTERS OF GAYS AND LBIANS
MATTHEW RHYS ON HIS 'REHG' GAY CHARACTER ON 'BROTHERS & SISTERS'
ImageYoung Adults Together Church: Mormon and Gay Webse. In the first few months after beg lled as a bishop, I was surprised when three sets of parents my ward each approached me private to let me know that they had a child who intified as gay or transgenr.
As a new bishop, was dntg to reach out to a member of my ward who intified as gay and need spirual help. A Gospel Topics say explas: “The Church distguish between same-sex attractn and homosexual behavr. People who experience same-sex attractn or intify as gay, lbian, or bisexual n make and keep venants wh God and fully and worthily participate the Church.
Intifyg as gay, lbian, or bisexual or experiencg same-sex attractn is not a s and do not prohib one om participatg the Church, holdg llgs, or attendg the temple. Be reful not to lim members’ opportuni to ntribute if they intify as gay or transgenr. When actor Matthew Rhys was dng for the role of "Kev Walker, " a man who intifi as gay, ABC's " Brothers & Sisters, " he told HuffPost Live was a "rehg" character for him to enunter.
BROTHERS AND SISTERS OF GAYS AND LBIANS
He was one of the siblgs who happened to be gay and he was so clear about that. Before You GoFavore Gay TV CouplYou May Like. What is like to have a siblg who is gay or lbian?
Based on the ltle b of rmatn available, seems that siblgs may share the stigma of their gay brothers and lbian sisters. They may have to pe wh tnts om peers, which clu accatns that they, too, are gay. In my own study of 65 gay youth and their fai, young Ain-Amerin men talked about how their brothers and other male relativ felt they were addg to society's already negative image of black manhood.
Like parents, their brothers also felt they had to fd ways to handle their peers' homophobic ments and behavrs. Si by Si: On Havg a Gay or Lbian Siblg by Andrew Gottlieb is a sensive, sightful anthology nsistg of says wrten by siblgs of lbians and gays who discs how they, too, bee objects of abe and tolerance, sharg the stigma of their gay siblgs.