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
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. But I knew he was gay by the time I was 7 or 8.
GROWG UP WH A GAY FATHER – CONFSNS OM A STRAIGHT SON
* my gay daddy *
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”! 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.
HOW I ACCINTALLY FOUND OUT MY DAD IS GAY
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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. 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.
THE GAY FATHER I NEVER KNEW
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. 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).
EXPLORG WHO IS AND WHAT MAK A GAY “DADDY”
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. 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).
IS YOUR DAD GAY—OR ARE YOU A GAY DAD?
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.
GAY BEAR VIOS: THE BT OF THE BT
Our girls simply accept them for who they are, jt as they do all their other fay members who happen to not be gay. I always knew he was gay and never had that “my Dad is gay” aha moment of realizg I had a gay father.
Together we learned how to be a father and son a day and age where beg a gay father was most certaly owned upon.