Contents:
- A GRANDSON SHARED DISVERG HIS GRANDFATHER'S SECRET GAY LOVE STORY AND IT’S SO PURE
- MY GRANDSON IS GAY… AND I LOVE HIM VERY MUCH
- IS YOUR DAD GAY—OR ARE YOU A GAY DAD?
- 95-YEAR-OLD GREAT GRANDFATHER OUT AS GAY
A GRANDSON SHARED DISVERG HIS GRANDFATHER'S SECRET GAY LOVE STORY AND IT’S SO PURE
Sama'an Ashrawi, mic producer and host of The Nostalgia Tap podst, is ed to tellg other people's stori, but on Sunday he opened up about a more personal one -- his grandfather's gay love story -- on love story thread has been liked almost 200, 000 tim.
"My Grandpa Dave told me he was sure he was gay when he was movg to his dorm room hman year of llege and there was a boy 'wh the prettit ey, '" Ashrawi began. Picture this: your grandson has jt told you he’s gay.
When your grandchild choos to e out to you and be openly gay, may be the most urageo choice they will ever make. After the rolleraster of emotns they go through, many fai actually look back and fd that you are grateful for the experience of havg a gay or lbian child.
MY GRANDSON IS GAY… AND I LOVE HIM VERY MUCH
Michael LaSala says, “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.
IS YOUR DAD GAY—OR ARE YOU A GAY DAD?
A great example of how to set an example for your fay when your grandson tells you he’s gay is this letter of support wrten by a grandfather that went viral worldwi a uple of years ago. She said that she already knew her son was gay, as did her 81-year-old mother, and that when he cid to e out to them, her mother wanted her her dghter to “tell him we love him too. Are you a dghter whose dad is gay?
Or are you a gay dad? gay: 1. Most children whose dads are gay were born while their blogil mom and blogil dad were married and livg together.
If you have a gay dad or a lbian mom, after they separate, which of them is most likely to remarry or to remarry and then divorce? Lbian moms are more likely than gay dads to marry their same-sex partner.
95-YEAR-OLD GREAT GRANDFATHER OUT AS GAY
But gay dads are ls likely to get divorced om their hbands than lbian moms are to get divorced om their wiv. Gay men may experience more discrimatn than lbians, pecially if they are parents.
Our society is still ls acceptg of gay men beg fathers than of lbians beg mothers. But perhaps the most important rearch fdg is that gay dads and their dghters have closer relatnships when dads tell the tth—and the dads are ls clilly prsed than dads who hi this important rmatn om their children (Tornello, 2018). Sadly, gay fathers are more aaid than lbian mothers to tell their children the tth, regardls of their age.
So if you as a dghter or as a gay dad are still tiptoeg around the topic, ’s time to give yourselv a gift by gettg this skeleton out of the closet. (2018) Adult children of gay fathers.