Gay kids are g out earlier — sometim middle school — and many are fdg acceptance. But some parents and teachers wonr if the kids are too young to really know their sexual orientatn.
Contents:
- GAY TT FOR AG 11 TO 18
- 4 RIDICULO QUTNS PEOPLE ASKED ME WHEN MY 11 YEAR-OLD CAME OUT AS GAY
- ARE YOU GAY, 11-YEAR-OLDS WILL BE ASKED
- GAY YOUTH COMG OUT IN MIDDLE SCHOOL
- APPLE APPROV 'ONLY GAY SOCIAL APP FOR AG 12 AND UP'
- ‘ARE YOU GAY’ QUIZ FOR 11-YEAR-OLDS
- MY 11-YEAR-OLD WAS JT DUMPED BY HIS BT FRIEND BEE HE'S GAY
- HOW N I MEET OTHER GAY TEENS LIKE MYSELF?
- GAY KIDS COMG OUT YOUNGER, BUT PARENTS ASK "HOW DO YOU KNOW?"
- 12-YEAR-OLD'S IENDS DIDN'T CELEBRATE AFTER HE ME OUT AS GAY. SO A PARK FULL OF STRANGERS DID
GAY TT FOR AG 11 TO 18
For most kids, the social prsur of middle school are tough enough. But an creasg number of young teenagers, some as young 10 or 11, are g out as gay or lbian middle school. Beno Denizet-Lewis, who wrote about the trend the New York Tim Magaze, discs what social factors uld be leadg young people to e out earlier. * gay 11 year olds *
I am also 11, and Im jt feelg odd, Im adopted, 2 tim, a now, im gay, I like give me a feelg, and, they make me really happy, but sometim, girls do, jt nfed, n anyone get back to me?
4 RIDICULO QUTNS PEOPLE ASKED ME WHEN MY 11 YEAR-OLD CAME OUT AS GAY
The founrs of believe 's time for a gay social app that don't have sex at s re. This is an app that "you n brg home to Mom." " data-hid="scriptn * gay 11 year olds *
If I was gay or not? Got bi when I’m gay I’m sorry that I didn’t fd the people attractive the photos they were not my type at all!!!
ARE YOU GAY, 11-YEAR-OLDS WILL BE ASKED
FURY epted yterday at “sister” plans to quiz 11-year-old children to see if they are straight, gay or bisexual. * gay 11 year olds *
Hi I’m 11 years old and I was a relatnship wh a girl uple months ago but then we thought that we weren’t for Each other bc we did not have a lot mon and I’m not gay bye thanks for readg And I was wh her for four months. Hi I’m 11 years old and I was a relatnship wh a girl uple months ago but then we thought that we weren’t for Each other bc we did not have a lot mon and I’m not gay bye thanks for readg.
That One Gay (75786). I am gay and that's what I am I am not straight I do not like boys I'm a girl I like girls I am gay nobody say that I'm a straight I am gay ok? I'm gay:] and da bt beg .
I so want to kiss my boyiend I dunno if he’s gay or if he fanci me I jt want to kiss him so much and bee boyiend and boyiend… IM SO GAY. I would really enjoy havg?wh a boy anyway but I’m 100% sure I’m gay too, so thanks dumb tt I didn’t need I’m love wh a boy already but I n’t tell him, “CURSE YOU”. When my son was 11, he me out to me and my hband as gay.
GAY YOUTH COMG OUT IN MIDDLE SCHOOL
In fact, some of the people askg the qutns are gay or queer themselv. Instead, ’s to expla why some of the mon qutns people may ask are homophobic or heterosexist and/or have a pletely flawed premise to beg wh.
APPLE APPROV 'ONLY GAY SOCIAL APP FOR AG 12 AND UP'
“Do you thk he’s gay? ), their first qutn was whether I thought he was gay. My hband and I were not surprised the least that our son is gay.
‘ARE YOU GAY’ QUIZ FOR 11-YEAR-OLDS
” And he also had said and done thgs the past that my our gaydar picked up on. So, if we lived a society that really rporated the ia of sexual fluidy to s unrstandg of what labels like “gay” mean, and also crilly reflected on the difference between inty and behavr, this uld almost be a legimate qutn.
It’s basilly sayg his gayns is not “real, ” which is not okay wh me.
MY 11-YEAR-OLD WAS JT DUMPED BY HIS BT FRIEND BEE HE'S GAY
Maybe he will intify as gay his whole life, and then one day fall love wh a woman while ntug to intify as gay.
HOW N I MEET OTHER GAY TEENS LIKE MYSELF?
Even if he do start to intify as straight a few years, that don’t necsarily make him ls gay now. “Don’t you thk he’s too young to know if he’s gay?
Assumptns about gayns have an experiential element to them that those about straightns don’t. By this I mean that straight people will ask gay people qutns like, “If you never had sex, how do you know you’re gay? “Do you thk he me out bee you guys glorify gayns your hoe?
GAY KIDS COMG OUT YOUNGER, BUT PARENTS ASK "HOW DO YOU KNOW?"
There is no straight “basele” om which gayns viat. In terms of glorifyg gayns, we are generally too by glorifyg oby to glorify gayns, but I gus we n spare the time.
Serly though, even if we put a huge premium on gayns (which we don’t — fact, neher my hband nor I are gay), would be a small weight on the sle pared to society’s premium on straightns and heteronormativy. In fact, he probably se more sual homophobia than most adults.
Do you know how many tim they e “gay” as a slur, or even say “fag”? If anyone has every centive to not intify as gay, is a sixth-gra boy. ” Rather, I believe the are mon qutns most folks would have when an 11 year-old out as gay.
12-YEAR-OLD'S IENDS DIDN'T CELEBRATE AFTER HE ME OUT AS GAY. SO A PARK FULL OF STRANGERS DID
Brish children as young as 11 will now be asked by the untry's equali watchdog, qutns related to their sexual orientatn, a media report children will have to answer a set of qutns that would terme whether they were straight, gay or bisexual, acrdg to the Daily workg schools, health re and youth servic are beg advised to set up pilot studi to monor adolcent sexual orientatn and not dismiss gay feelgs as a "passg phase" Equaly and Human Rights Commissn advot askg children aged 11 bee some "qutn their orientatn as early as eight and may beg to intify as LGB (lbian, gay, bisexual) om early adolcence".
Are people who e out as gay their teens sted to face rejectn, bullyg and inty crisis? MARTIN: Now, how did you notice this trend of younger and younger children intifyg themselv as gay? You mentned the piece that you are a gay man.
I read a lot about youth culture and I was talkg to tors and, you know, lears of gay youth groups and they were all sayg the same thg. When realy, if you talk to a gay man, you know, many of them lookg back will say, you know, I noticed my same sex attractn, you know, at 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 that ballpark. You know, recent studi are showg that kids are self-intifyg as gay anywhere om 13 to 16.