Gay Kids Comg Out Younger, But Parents Ask "How Do You Know?"

Contents:

• ‘OPENLY GAY’ 3-YEAR-OLD GO VIRAL ON SOCIAL MEDIA AND THE LEFT LOV ‘OPENLY GAY’ 3-YEAR-OLD GO VIRAL ON SOCIAL MEDIA AND THE LEFT LOV
• GAY KIDS COMG OUT YOUNGER, BUT PARENTS ASK "HOW DO YOU KNOW?"
• ‘OPENLY GAY’ 3-YEAR-OLD GO VIRAL ON SOCIAL MEDIA
• COMG OUT AS GAY IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
• WOMAN BRAGS ABOUT HER ‘OPENLY GAY’ THREE-YEAR-OLD GODSON
• HOW TO SUPPORT YOUR GAY CHILD
• IS YOUR CHILD GAY?
• GAY RIGHTS

‘OPENLY GAY’ 3-YEAR-OLD GO VIRAL ON SOCIAL MEDIA AND THE LEFT LOV ‘OPENLY GAY’ 3-YEAR-OLD GO VIRAL ON SOCIAL MEDIA AND THE LEFT LOV

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GAY KIDS COMG OUT YOUNGER, BUT PARENTS ASK "HOW DO YOU KNOW?"

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My unrstandg was that 'gay', 'bi', and 'straight' are about romantic and/or sexual attractn (which no 3-year-old uld possibly have a handle on), and that labelg people 'gay' or 'straight' based on how feme or mascule they act is jt rercg stereotypil genr rol. Gog onle broke through the isolatn that had been a hallmark of beg young and gay, and allowed gay teenagers to fd rmatn to refute what their fai or church sometim still told them - namely, that they would never fd happs and to the Inter and to creasg cultural acceptance of homosexualy (an crease marred, we should note, by measur like Proposn 8), kids who might once have waed until high school or even llege to e out are now dog so earlier.

‘OPENLY GAY’ 3-YEAR-OLD GO VIRAL ON SOCIAL MEDIA

" They were not, however, silent: "Good luck gettg middle-schoolers not to talk, " the school unselor youth of the Webster kids and other gay middle-schoolers is a sign of how far gay rights have e — but 's also the kids' biggt obstacle to acceptance.

COMG OUT AS GAY IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

The irony of a parent spectg her kid is gay and then refg to believe he uld know his own orientatn highlights how much more difficulty some parents have wh burgeong gay sexualy than they would wh a straight kid's of this may have to do wh the misnceptn that you have to have gay terurse to be gay, or that homosexualy is somehow a more "sexual" orientatn than heterosexualy. A lawyer Florida argued that gay-straight allianc promote the "premature sexualizatn of the stunts, " and when At started a gay-straight alliance, his Michigan school ma him ll somethg "ls ntroversial" (he chose "Peace Alliance"). Denizet-Lewis reports the hopeful words of velopmental psychologist Rch Sav-Williams: "This is the first generatn of gay kids who have the great joy of beg able to argue wh their parents about datg, jt like their straight peers do.

“One of the byproducts of LGBTQ fanaticism is that 'gay' and 'trans' ants are nstantly lookg for ways to doctrate very young children their iology–even to the pot phg pro-homosexual and pro-transgenr picture books on toddlers. Children’s mental health experts say that small boys showg tert girl’s toys and activi is often a normal phase and not ditive of homosexual tennci, but warn that some s may be an early sign of genr inty disorr.

In today’s pop culture landspe, we have spirg LGBTQ celebri who are g out at younger and younger ag — like YouTube sensatn JoJo Siwa who me out as gay 2021 at age 17, or Zaya Wa, the transgenr dghter of Shvghn Funch and Dwyane Wa, who me out to her parents at age 12 but (acrdg to dad) has known her genr inty sce she was 3 years old. Our current climate has by no means eradited the homophobia that jt a few s back was as monplace to s- TV as a lgh track, but the progrs is unniable, as we remember the generatns of LGBTQ stars who hid their te inty for fear of beg blacklisted om the bs, jeered the prs, or alienated om their loved on. Sir Ian McKellen me out as a gay man at 48 years old when he went on BBC 3 to prott the passg of a bill that prohibed lol thori om engagg anythg that uld be nsired a “promotn of homosexualy, ” argug: “I certaly would [like to see repealed].

WOMAN BRAGS ABOUT HER ‘OPENLY GAY’ THREE-YEAR-OLD GODSON

In 1997, Ellen DeGener me out as a gay woman at the age of 39 wh a one-two punch of a Time magaze ver announcg her sexualy and a special episo of TV show Ellen which her s character out as gay, after which DeGener herself nfirmed her own sexualy.

The next generatn is growg up wh gay characters on their televisns, pansexual rappers on their playlists, and queer micro-muni on their Tumblr the change also means that there is a new generatn of fai scramblg to raise LGBT kids who have specific needs and challeng — kids who are growg up a society that, while creasgly LGBT-tolerant, is still plagued by hate crim, job discrimatn, and the more banal, everyday sort of homophobia borne by sual ignorance. Amelia, a Midwtern mother of a 10-year-old boy who first began intifyg as gay when he was 7, said that her son’s unabashed outns tends to startle many adults who would rather not thk about children havg sexual sir.

HOW TO SUPPORT YOUR GAY CHILD

“Consirg how much more fluid the younger generatn is about sexualy, ” she said, “[Informatn about and accs to queer culture] shouldn’t only be ma available to gay intified children — should be [available] to all children. ” In nversatn wh the Uned Stat Interagency Council on Homelsns, Krehely said that “ some ways, this is a good thg — means they are gettg societal cu that is OK to be gay — but they are not old enough to be able to live penntly yet, and they face rejectn by parents and fai, and emotnal and/or physil abe at school.

Wh the World Wi Web at their disposal, many LGBT kids go beyond googlg gay search terms — some are also g technology to nnect wh, and support, queer youth om around the don’t have many queer iends at home Reno, Nevada, but she has plenty on the ter. Fay'This sounds more like the child has a bunch of cheerlears his life rather than tsted adults to gui him'A post on a webse last week which a godmother said her three-year-old nephew “proudly adms that he is gay” went viral — and is still g shock wav.

The bulk of the post has been leted now, “bee of homophobic abe and [the] bullyg of a three-year-old child, ” acrdg to the the origal tweets on which the post on was based, “Caren, ” the godmother and nt of the male toddler, noted the small child was terted “braidg hair, puttg makp on dolls, and pretendg to be a bety queen, ” LifeSeNews reported. Children do not sexually mature until years later; the ia that a three-year-old is sexually savvy enough and physlogilly veloped to clare his sexual orientatn seems, to put lightly, took me 16 years to e to the realizatn I was gay.

IS YOUR CHILD GAY?

Photo: Watch What Happens Live Wh Andy Cohen / BravoDigner and Heirs Gloria Vanrbilt wrote a book wh her gay son, journalist Anrson Cooper, 2016, lled, The Rabow Com and Go: A Mother and Son Talk About Life, Love, and Loss. Thanks to the shownners drivg thentic stori, filmmakers buckg s-old heteronormative paradigms, actors embolned to live more hontly and platforms bankrollg so much of , beg gay, queer, transgenr or any other other has never been more wily embraced the entertament s gural Pri issue, The Hollywood Reporter homed on the talent and makers helpg boost visibily and creatg opportuni for members of the extend LGBTQ muny.

After more than a of Watch What Happens Live Wh Andy Cohen, where he beme the first openly gay host Amerin late night, Bravo's exec turned talent tackl all kds of media (SiriXM show Rad Andy, multiple books), while upliftg and advotg for the LGBTQ muny. Puttg his stamp on The Ln Kg — he played Timon to great acclaim the billn-dollar-earng Disney reboot — the out-and-proud funnyman will next play Matt Ddge  Amerin Crime Story: Impeachment while his upg Judd Apatow-produced feature at Universal is set to be the first gay rom- om a major stud.

GAY RIGHTS

The queer Salvadoran edian translated the handful of breakout Saturday Night Live scen he wrote to multiple als at HBO — where he buted the edy special My Favore Shap  2019 and is readyg season two of Los Espookys, the half-Spanish, half-English, entirely absurd edy which he stars as the gay heir to a cholate fortune. A toddler who wore a feather boa around the hoe and plead for pk light-up sneakers wh rhton is probably tellg you somethg, even if he don’t yet know what ’re not the only on, said Ellen Kahn, the director of the Fay Project for the Human Rights Campaign, a leadg advocy group for gay men and lbians. Kahn add, “I’ve heard many parents who have said, ‘I knew my son was gay, I heard my dghter was a lbian, and I jt was wag’ ” for what she lled the “Mom, Dad: I have somethg to tell you” her home, and too many others, she said, “Nobody wanted to talk about .

”) Whether the parents might embrace or reject a gay child, fai naturally tend to avoid difficult subjects — and so a stalemate ensu, wh many parents worryg that the act of ncealment uld be takg a psychic toll on their child.

Acrdg to a new survey of more than 10, 000 gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr teenagers nducted for the Human Rights Campaign, 64 percent of those high school say they are out, and 54 percent of those middle school say they are.