What to Do When Your Child Says: "I'm Gay" | Psychology Today

Contents:

• A DIFFERENT KD OF "AM I GAY"? QUIZ FOR HIGH SCHOOL TEENS - TT
• I’M A BOY OF 13 AND I THK I’M GAY BUT I HAVEN’T TOLD ANYONE. WHAT BOOKS N I READ?
• WATCH: THIS SHORT FILM ABOUT A GAY TEEN LOVE WILL MELT YOUR HEART
• I'M AAID THAT I'M GAY
• AS A GAY MAN, I’LL NEVER BE NORMAL
• COMG OUT: A PARENTS GUI TO SUPPORTG YOUR GAY TEEN
• WHAT TO DO WHEN YOUR CHILD SAYS: "I'M GAY"

A DIFFERENT KD OF "AM I GAY"? QUIZ FOR HIGH SCHOOL TEENS - TT

You may be homosexual, gay, or lbian if you are attracted to people of the same sex as yourself. Havg feelgs about or havg a sexual experience wh a person of the same sex do not necsarily mean you are homosexual.

Below are mon qutns and answers related to homosexualy. Can people be forced or nvced to change om gay to straight, or the other way around?

I’M A BOY OF 13 AND I THK I’M GAY BUT I HAVEN’T TOLD ANYONE. WHAT BOOKS N I READ?

I thk I might be gay.

Over time, you will figure out if you are gay, straight, neher, or both. The phrase “ the closet” may be ed to refer to someone who is gay, lbian, or bisexual, but hasn’t told iends and fay members yet. Homophobia refers to fear, prejudice, or discrimatn toward persons who are gay, lbian, or bisexual.

WATCH: THIS SHORT FILM ABOUT A GAY TEEN LOVE WILL MELT YOUR HEART

Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn (GLAAD). Parents, Fay and Friends of Lbians and Gays (PFLAG).

This gay quiz is a ltle different.

It wasn’t a bad tt but I got homosexual and I’m fely not bee I’ve had several csh on both genrs. Prob gay (68523). I’m probably gay, I gus I kda expected that.

I'M AAID THAT I'M GAY

hello fellow gays i have recently found out i am gay.

AS A GAY MAN, I’LL NEVER BE NORMAL

i got homosexual, and I thk that's bee some of the qutns that would lead to gettg bi as your rult had overton of nyg your own bisexualy.

I did twice and got gay twice but I have always thought I was bi or pans.

COMG OUT: A PARENTS GUI TO SUPPORTG YOUR GAY TEEN

Idc abt my sexualy e ima still love myself nd Im triggered abt was that all this quiz thg was jt for fun and I actually me out as Ace and Trans which im worried abt e my whole fay is Homophobic ? I gus we'll see what happens tho ??‍♀️. I always had a feelg that I may be gay.

“I’m a 13-year-old boy and I thk I’m gay but I haven’t told anyone. What books n I read to help me get the urage to tell people – and make sure that I’m that fely gay? ” For direct, practil advice, I wrote This Book Is Gay.

Siarly, Becky Albertelli’s Simon Vs the Homosapien’s Agenda and Liz Ksler’s Read Me Like A Book look at the mefield of g ’s about transgenr youths, not gay on, but Lisa Williamson’s The Art of Beg Normal is warm and upliftg and looks at the rewards and challeng of livg a more thentic, hont life.

WHAT TO DO WHEN YOUR CHILD SAYS: "I'M GAY"

Two Weeks Wh The Queen by Morris Glezman was wrten the 80s at a time when there was a lot more homophobia about and AIDS was still a new, uncurable disease – this book is surprisgly funny and heartwarmg, given the subject. S., and ns om the fifti to the neti but do start wh two ne year old s, both gay, who form a lifelong iendship. If he is gay, havg a uple of role mols like Achill and Patrocl will make a nice (healthy) change om the vast majory of gay trop out there.

Seventeen-year-old Kim Ho was one of the wners of the 2012 monologue petn Love Byt, held by Frh Ink, a velopment program for emergg playwrights om the Atralian Theatre for Young one of the petn's wners, Kim was assisted wh transformg his origal three-mute vio entry, Transcennce -- which tells the story of a young gay teen stgglg wh his sexualy and the love he feels for a boy his French class -- to the betiful ne-mute short film The Language of Love. "Homosexualy is still a sensive topic, and I immediately felt prsured to wre somethg that was ndid but not disrpectful to the LGBT muny, " Ho explas on the Frh Ink webse.