Dad's Love Letter to Gay Teenage Son Go Viral

Contents:

• A LETTER TO HER GAY SON: SPREADG LR MAYENO'S PROFOUND MSAGE
• LETTER TO MY HYPOTHETILLY GAY SON
• DEAR MICHAEL - A PARENT'S LETTER TO A GAY SON
• MUM’S HEARTBREAKG LETTER TO GAY SON
• DAD'S LOVE LETTER TO GAY TEENAGE SON GO VIRAL
• BETIFUL LETTER FROM A LOVG FUTURE FATHER: “A LETTER TO MY FUTURE SON, FROM A FUTURE GAY FATHER”
• AN OPEN LETTER TO MOM, FROM HER GAY SON
• WHAT LETTER WOULD YOU WRE TO A GAY SON?
• A MOTHER'S LETTER TO HER GAY SON BCE DAVID CIELLO
• MY SON MIGHT BE GAY. WHAT SHOULD I SAY TO HIM?

A LETTER TO HER GAY SON: SPREADG LR MAYENO'S PROFOUND MSAGE

Lr gave me permissn to re-post her letter to her son, “A Letter to My Gay Genr-Expansive Son, ” which she origally published to her HuffPost Parents blog on January 5, 2016: am spreadg Lr’s profound and empowerg msage bee more people need to read .

Enjoy Lr’s passn:A Letter to My Gay Genr-Expansive SonI tell my son I love him all the time.

LETTER TO MY HYPOTHETILLY GAY SON

No one is ashamed of havg a gay or transgenr child bee everyone is accepted and ’s a world where we all regnize people wh many genr inti, sexual orientatns and genr exprsns.

I want to live a world where I am not nsired a special mom bee I love my gay son. "Everythg good that has happened to me is bee I am gay, " Richie Jackson wr his new book, Gay Like Me.

"Everythg I thk, believe, crave, create, nquer om beg gay. " To be gay is e for great celebratn, one of the self-fg featur of Richie Jackson's life -- all of which exist direct ntrast to Jackson's son who is also gay and seems to exhib a nonchalance toward his sexualy. His son scrib beg gay as not a big al, and that way, Gay Like Me serv as a urse rrectn, a splash of ld water agast this younger generatn's face.

DEAR MICHAEL - A PARENT'S LETTER TO A GAY SON

Our safety, Gay Like Me warns rears, is not a certaty, and our vigilance and llective actn is required orr to keep makg a preview below and click here to listen to the full podst terview. Jefey Masters: In Gay Like Me, you wrote that everythg good that has happened to you is bee you are gay.

I was elated, and he said, "Daddy, beg gay is not a big al. "And I thought, "Oh no, I have to tell him what means to be a gay man.

Now I had to warn him how to be a gay man Ameri, what tak to be a gay man That's a worry, I thk, that only a queer parent would know to have. He has no gay guard. " We all have a gay guard.

MUM’S HEARTBREAKG LETTER TO GAY SON

There's a vigilance to beg gay and 's have to always be aware of who's around you, where you are, what you're sayg, who's hearg you.

When we were married 2012, legally married the state of New York, two blocks om our home a gay man was lled gay slurs and then shot to 're legal, we're not I had to teach my son how to have a gay guard, to build up his gay guard, to unrstand that g out isn't only jt once, but you're gog to have to e out every day, multiple tim a day, and this guard will let you know when is safe to e out and when 's Most gay people learn the lsons outsis of their That's how lucky I feel to be able to give him the lsons, bee I know that I didn't get them when I was growg up, and I had to learn them by trial, error, and a lot of tribulatn.

RJ: My very first acts as a gay man was to march the ralli about tryg to get the ernment to act.

DAD'S LOVE LETTER TO GAY TEENAGE SON GO VIRAL

Beg polil, beg angry, and beg gay are all wrapped up together for Growg up, beg gay was fed by AIDS for me. What was associated wh beg gay then? I remember if I had ught any movie about gay people on TV, they were eher suicidal or And that tracks wh your first sexual You know, my first sexual experienc were of the three men's gay shame me out at me after sex.

]Gay Like Me, the new book by Richie Jackson, is available now. Unfortunately, some fai fd hard to embrace LGBT people, be their son or dghter who may have e out, or a parent who realiz later life that they are gay.

We were also forted to fd letter rponse by another dad, blogger John Knear, wrten to his hypothetil gay son, which you n also fd below. A different rponse to a hypothetilly gay son.

BETIFUL LETTER FROM A LOVG FUTURE FATHER: “A LETTER TO MY FUTURE SON, FROM A FUTURE GAY FATHER”

Dear Hypothetilly Gay Son,.

You’re gay. It was like when we’re at a rtrant and the waer up mid-be and asks how the meal is, only this metaphor you are the waer and stead of askg me about my meal you said you were gay.

I thk I need to fd a funny way to repeat the fact that you’re gay… bee that is what sounds like my head right now.

AN OPEN LETTER TO MOM, FROM HER GAY SON

“My son is gay.

My son is gay.

Sce beg gay is part of who you are, I love that you’re gay.

WHAT LETTER WOULD YOU WRE TO A GAY SON?

Jt bee you’re gay don’t mean you’re any ls pable of takg re of/fendg yourself. By the way, I ocsnally the term “gay“ as shorthand for LGBTQ.

Perhaps you’ve been aaid that we’ll reject you and throw you out of our life bee you’re gay.

A MOTHER'S LETTER TO HER GAY SON BCE DAVID CIELLO

Up ont we want you to unrstand once aga that we don’t believe simply beg gay, or same-sex attracted is a s. That’s not the way God ma me and you beg gay is not the way God created you.

We also ask that you not discs your livg together, or your relatnship, or your views on sexualy or gay relatnships ont of the grandchildren eher. When you me home om llege for wter break your sophomore year, you asked if we uld have some time to talk. “Mom, I’m gay.

MY SON MIGHT BE GAY. WHAT SHOULD I SAY TO HIM?

You had joed a support group at school, you said, and as you told me the horror that some of your gay iends had experienced wh their fai, I began to cry. A father threw his son out on the street and broke his arm after hearg that his son was gay.