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Contents:
- MY GAY DAD, MY QUEER FAY, HAPPILY EVER AFTER
- GROWG UP WH A GAY FATHER – CONFSNS OM A STRAIGHT SON
- HOW I ACCINTALLY FOUND OUT MY DAD IS GAY
- THE GAY FATHER I NEVER KNEW
- EXPLORG WHO IS AND WHAT MAK A GAY “DADDY”
- IS YOUR DAD GAY—OR ARE YOU A GAY DAD?
- GAY BEAR VIOS: THE BT OF THE BT
MY GAY DAD, MY QUEER FAY, HAPPILY EVER AFTER
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 gay daddy *
The only hardships of growg up wh a gay dad me om society, not om my wonrfully queer cred: iStockBy Alyssa RoyseMy parents were divorced when I was 6 or so.
GROWG UP WH A GAY FATHER – CONFSNS OM A STRAIGHT SON
Eric Rutherford (L) and Patrick Dempsey (R) (image via Instagram) While the term “daddy” has gotten more and more popular the gay muny over the * my gay daddy *
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.
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. Th I never had that aha moment of realizg “I have a gay father”!
HOW I ACCINTALLY FOUND OUT MY DAD IS GAY
* my gay daddy *
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.
In retrospect, the fact that he was a cheerlear his bt iend was a male hairdrser (who was openly gay) that my Uncle Buddy nicknamed him “Percy” (which my Dad hated) and that my Dad went on to open a home furnishgs store might have been a clue.
THE GAY FATHER I NEVER KNEW
Realizg his sexualy and beg a gay father the late 1960s, pecially wh me a long way away, mt have been really transformative for my Dad. He lived and around the Oak Lawn area of Dallas (long a predomantly gay or at least gay-iendly neighborhood). He was meetg lots of openly gay people & gog to clubs where was OK to be openly gay.
Beg a gay father the 1960s.
My Dad never actually me out as gay to me or to most people.
EXPLORG WHO IS AND WHAT MAK A GAY “DADDY”
I’d known my Dad is gay for some time, but we’d never discsed . My Dad, of urse, was sistent that no one would obvly know he was gay (which also ma Tom and I lgh).
Are you a gay father stgglg to e out? In Loren’s se, he didn’t e to terms wh beg gay until the age of 40 and was married wh children at the time.
How growg up wh a gay father affected me.
IS YOUR DAD GAY—OR ARE YOU A GAY DAD?
The one benef to always knowg I had a gay father is that there was never I time I rell thkg was wrong. I first realized my Dad was gay when I was around 7 or 8, and I have no rellectn of him beg wh my Mom. Almost all his iends were gay as were most of his employe (those 2 groups pretty much beg the same people).
GAY BEAR VIOS: THE BT OF THE BT
That beg said, I was probably spared a lot of bullyg at school sce no one there knew I had a gay father. I feel que sure I got lucky this regard and that many kids wh a gay father were picked on for their parent’s sexualy.
How knowg their grandfathers are gay affects my kids.
I’m proud of the fact that I and their mother have raised our dghters to not qutn or judge my Dad or Tom beg gay. They don’t see him as my “gay father”; jt my father.