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Contents:
- “MOM, DAD… I’M GAY.” A CHRISTIAN PARENT’S RPONSE
- 'ACCEPT' AND 'TOLERATE' MY GAY KID? THAT'S NOT GOOD ENOUGH
- JT BEE HE BREATH: LEARNG TO TLY LOVE OUR GAY SON
“MOM, DAD… I’M GAY.” A CHRISTIAN PARENT’S RPONSE
In late 1980, at a support group for gay fathers, my dad met Lnel –– the man wh whom he would spend the next 23 years. He had seemed kd of lost his new life – phg 60, recently divorced om my mother, recently out of the closet as gay man.
He asked that I march wh him, alongsi the other gay fathers and their kids, the Los Angel Pri Para. What I do remember was that someone had ma T-shirts that said "I LOVE MY GAY DAD" and I refed to wear one. I told my dad, “I love you, but not bee you’re gay.
” The tth, though, is that I lacked the urage to stand all the way up for my father and his ras agast a homophobic and different world. I probably left my "I LOVE MY GAY DAD" T-shirt next to the box had e out of, though I might have taken home wh me and buried a drawer. Pete Wilson’s office, or at the Natnal March on Washgton for Lbian and Gay dad and his hband lost a lot of iends to AIDS.
'ACCEPT' AND 'TOLERATE' MY GAY KID? THAT'S NOT GOOD ENOUGH
Even when I was an obnox 22-year-old and wouldn’t put on a T-shirt to clare, unashamed, unembarrassed and unapologetic, that I love my gay dad.
Gay Boy Problems AF ()This acunt, created and curated by @OhHeyPete, pulls a lot of spiratn om gay lennial culture. Homo’s Morn Life (@homosmornlife)He’s all about 90’s boy bands and grdr hookups.
JT BEE HE BREATH: LEARNG TO TLY LOVE OUR GAY SON
Perks of Beg a Wallbottom (@perksofbegawallbottom)The Swedish memer is the self-proclaimed “emperor of bottoms”, and he’s currently servg mem that every gay lennial will love regardls of if they’re a top, bottom, or vers. Rachel Held Evans nclus her blog post If my son or dghter were gay wh this paragraph:. If God bls Dan and me wh a child who is gay, I would want that child to know whout a doubt that he or she is loved unndnally.
I believe Rachel’s motivatn is to create a more welg and lovg environment the church for those who intify themselv as homosexuals, or who stggle wh homosexual sire. I admire and agree wh her motive, and mt say that I’ve learned om her this area of beg much more reful how I speak and wre about homosexualy. First, she don’t munite any ncern about the sfulns of homosexual sir nor the immoraly of homosexual actns.