Impartg life lsons to your own kids is part and parcel of parentg, but what about dog that for other people’s children? Aaron Gouveia wrtled wh that qutn when his young son me to him cryg bee an olr kid kept llg him gay.
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A DAD’S ADVICE TO NEIGHBORHOOD KIDS: DON’T E GAY AS AN SULT
* gay is stupid *
That’s the qutn I wrtled wh as I nsoled my 7-year-old son who was cryg bee an olr kid the neighborhood kept llg him gay.
GAY OR STUPID? ONE’S STILL AN INSULT
“Dad, why is beg gay stupid or bad? That means g “gay” as an sult, tellg someone they “throw like a girl” and llg someone a “retard” is banned our fay. They know our gay iends, they have gay relativ they love, and we discs on a route basis why ments such as those are so hurtful.
So, when my son heard olr kids he looks up to g gay as an sult, a part of him wonred if his idol was right. I also remd him that many people around him might be gay or qutng their sexualy and asked him how he thks they’d feel if everyone ed gay as a pejorative. The Trevor Project, a nonprof focg on suici preventn efforts among lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer and qutng youth, timat more than 1.