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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.
'ACCEPT' AND 'TOLERATE' MY GAY KID? THAT'S NOT GOOD ENOUGH
I told my dad, “I love you, but not bee you’re gay.
JT BEE HE BREATH: LEARNG TO TLY LOVE OUR GAY SON
” 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.