Is Your Dad Gay—or Are You a Gay Dad? | Psychology Today

Contents:

• HOW I ACCINTALLY FOUND OUT MY DAD IS GAY
• IS YOUR DAD GAY—OR ARE YOU A GAY DAD?
• MY LIFE CHANGED FOREVER THE DAY I FOUND OUT MY FATHER WAS GAY
• WHAT IF YOU FD OUT YOUR DAD IS GAY?

HOW I ACCINTALLY FOUND OUT MY DAD IS GAY

My brother picked up the word for "gay" – a word my dad repeated several tim durg that that pot, my parents had told they had problems their marriage, but a few months later, when I was around ne years old, we still went on our annual fay summer holiday to France.

Until, out of nowhere, my brother sudnly asked, "Dad, are you gay?

"There aren't a lot of gay people out there wh a wife and children, " he told me. I once tagged along wh him to his favoure gay bar, where I met all the iends he's ma there over the years. If you jt have a feelg that your brother is gay, that's okay.

IS YOUR DAD GAY—OR ARE YOU A GAY DAD?

If you thk your brother is gay bee he watch a "girly" TV show or his voice sounds a certa way, that's relyg on stereotyp. If you live a particularly homophobic or transphobic area, discs safety plans wh the fay member se of vlence om others.

If your fay member has e out as gay or bisexual, accept that they will end up seeg someone of their own genr, and that's perfectly okay. Don't be aaid to rearch beg gay, bisexual, transgenr, asexual, or whatever your fay member me out as.

MY LIFE CHANGED FOREVER THE DAY I FOUND OUT MY FATHER WAS GAY

I thk he might be gay. If you saw your brother kissg another guy and he said he is not attracted to women, y, he is gay. How do I tell if a child is gay?

WHAT IF YOU FD OUT YOUR DAD IS GAY?

They might have a lack of tert the oppose sex if they’re homosexual or asexual. Are you a dghter whose dad is gay? Or are you a gay dad?