One of the ma issu wh trackg when kids intify as gay is that most people assume that all kids start out straight.
Contents:
- WHAT TO DO WHEN YOUR CHILD SAYS: "I'M GAY"
- GAY YOUTH COMG OUT IN MIDDLE SCHOOL
- 12-YEAR-OLD'S IENDS DIDN'T CELEBRATE AFTER HE ME OUT AS GAY. SO A PARK FULL OF STRANGERS DID
- AT WHAT AGE DO KIDS INTIFY AS GAY?
- GAY TT FOR MAL AG 12-16
- GAY TT FOR BOYS AG 12 TO 16
- AM I GAY? (QUIZ FOR TEENAGE BOYS)
- IS YOUR CHILD GAY?
WHAT TO DO WHEN YOUR CHILD SAYS: "I'M GAY"
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. * 12 years gay *
When parents learn that their child is gay, lbian, bisexual, or transgenr, they n experience a range of emotns.
GAY YOUTH COMG OUT IN MIDDLE SCHOOL
* 12 years gay *
As a matter of fact, you might someday look back and fd that you are grateful for the experience of havg a gay or lbian child. Well, my study of 65 fai of gay and lbian youth for the book, Comg Out, Comg Home: Helpg Fai Adjt to a Gay or Lbian Child, I found that some parents get to the pot where they believe that the experience of havg a gay child actually ma them a better person—more open-md and sensive to the needs of others, particularly those other mory groups. If you jt found out your child is gay, lbian, bisexual, or transgenr, you may be thkg that such ias are prepostero.
The tstworthy nfidants let them vent but also rrected some of the misperceptns they absorbed om society, such as that gay people are lonely, unhappy, promiscuo, not fay-oriented, unable to have children, or sted for an unhappy life. Contact Parents, Fay, and Friends of Lbians and Gays (PFLAG). List of Helpful Books for Parents of Gay and Lbian Children.
Straight Parents Gay Children: Keepg Fai Together (revised edn). Beyond Acceptance: Parents of Lbians, and Gays Talk About Their Experienc. Somethg to Tell You: The Road Fai Travel when a Child is Gay.
12-YEAR-OLD'S IENDS DIDN'T CELEBRATE AFTER HE ME OUT AS GAY. SO A PARK FULL OF STRANGERS DID
Comg Out, Comg Home: Helpg Fai Adjt to a Gay or Lbian Child. Fortunate Fai: Catholic fai wh lbian dghters and gay sons. Mom, Dad, I'm Gay: How Fai Negotiate Comg Out.
“You serly have a problem wh people beg gay?
AT WHAT AGE DO KIDS INTIFY AS GAY?
“So you’re homophobic? “So you jt blatantly adm to beg homophobic? “She’s gay and you blatantly said you don’t support gay people, ” he ntu, drivg his pot home.
GAY TT FOR MAL AG 12-16
He go on another vio to try to expla that not all LGBTQ people are gay his own 12-year-old way, but didn’t seem to nvce the other players.
GAY TT FOR BOYS AG 12 TO 16
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AM I GAY? (QUIZ FOR TEENAGE BOYS)
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Pastor tells flock homosexualy is a “monic spir” stealg Christian children.
IS YOUR CHILD GAY?
Catholic school revers cisn to fire a gay ach after stunts ept anger. 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.