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Contents:

• GAY BULLYG, GAY BULLI AND DEALG WH GAY BASHG
• GAY PARENTS AND THE FIGHT FOR ACCEPTANCE
• 5 GAY PARENTG MYTHS
• GAY BASHG
• GAY PARENTS BASHED (VIO)
• GAY PARENTS AS GOOD AS STRAIGHT ON
• GAY PARENTS (NOT) BASHED
• SELF-DEFENSE EXPERTS SUGGT THE 5 STRATEGI FOR AVOIDG OR SURVIVG A GAY BASHG
• PARENTS WHO SAY GAY SON WAS BULLIED AT EVERETT SCHOOL FILE $20M CLAIM
• WHAT WOULD YOU DO?: GAY PARENTS BASHED IN A RTRANT IN TEXAS
• GAY PARENTS BASHED (VIO)
• HOW TO ACCEPT THAT YOU ARE GAY
• VIO: GAY PARENTS BASHED
• GAY PARENTS BASHED

GAY BULLYG, GAY BULLI AND DEALG WH GAY BASHG

Gay bullyg and gay bashg are actns that hurt all. A rash of gay suicis 2011 prov how adly gay bullyg n be. Gay bullyg statistics dite that gay teens are two-to-three tim more likely to m suici than other youths and about 30% of all suicis have been lked to a genr inty crisis.

None of the aths had to occur, but they did bee each of the people was sent the msage that was better to be ad than to be gay.

GAY PARENTS AND THE FIGHT FOR ACCEPTANCE

What is Gay Bullyg, Gay Bashg?

Gay bullyg and gay bashg is bullyg or treatg one poorly bee they are gay (fn of gay) or bee they are thought to be gay. The targets are primarily people who do not f to genr stereotype rol whether they are, fact, gay or not. Gay bullyg statistics dite that 9-out-of-10 gay youth have been subject to bullyg and that, of those, almost half were physilly harassed and a quarter report beg physilly asslted.

5 GAY PARENTG MYTHS

Gay bullyg or gay bashg may be:. Vlent anti-gay imag. Gay discrimatn.

GAY BASHG

Any dividual mor cince of gay bullyg or gay bashg may be somethg that someone n al wh but the ma problem wh is s pervasive and nsistent nature to the pot where jur an dividual's self-teem and sire to live. Adult Gay Bullyg.

And while we often thk of children or teens when we thk gay bullyg, bullyg occurs adult suatns, such as the workplace, as well. Stop Gay Bullyg – How People Are Workg to Stop Gay Bashg. Many anizatns are dited to stop gay bashg and gay bullyg and there are more and more iativ lolly, like high schools, to stop gay bashg.

GAY PARENTS BASHED (VIO)

Over 4000 Gay-Straight Allianc are now registered wh the Gay, Lbian and Straight Edutn Network and iativ such as "No Name-Callg Week" now exist to put the spotlight on all typ of bullyg and bashg.

GAY PARENTS AS GOOD AS STRAIGHT ON

If you are beg bullied, alg wh gay bashg n seem dntg, but there are many thgs you n do. Get volved gay supportive anizatns.

Consir seeg a gay therapist (gay therapy) for unrstandg and support.

You won't be that gay bullyg environment forever and acceptance is possible. Gay Bullyg, Gay Bulli and Dealg wh Gay Bashg, HealthyPlace. Wh an timated two to three ln children beg raised by gay, lbian, bisexual, and transgenr parents the Uned Stat alone, the issue of adoptn by same-sex upl or sgle LGBT dividuals ntu to be a hot-button issue around the world.

GAY PARENTS (NOT) BASHED

Though numero studi show that children wh sexual mory parents tend to be as well-adjted as the children of oppose-sex upl, gay marriage opponents ntue to ce moral and relig objectns ncerng the fns of LGBT parents as well as the prejudice that their adopted children n be expected to face.

SELF-DEFENSE EXPERTS SUGGT THE 5 STRATEGI FOR AVOIDG OR SURVIVG A GAY BASHG

A new rearch study published the journal Psychology of Sexual Orientatn and Genr Diversy exam school experienc and behavural adjtment of children wh lbian or gay parents. All participatg children had been adopted to a two-parent lbian or gay fay wh the first few weeks of life.

Parents and children were also separately terviewed to learn about bullyg as well as experience wh microaggrsns lked to anti-gay attus. This clud both externalizg and ternalizg problems which, while siar to what many children who are bullyg victims report, also suggt that the children of lbian and gay parents may face unique challeng as they proceed through school. Along wh the generally posive experienc most children of lbian and gay parents have school, their parents reported generally posive teractns wh teachers and school boards as well.

PARENTS WHO SAY GAY SON WAS BULLIED AT EVERETT SCHOOL FILE $20M CLAIM

The lbian and gay parents this study also report beg actively volved their children's school activi, cludg equent meetgs wh teachers and spendg time volunteerg for school events. School experienc of young children and their lbian and gay adoptive parents.

Opponents of gay marriage and adoptn often ame their cricisms terms of what's bt for children. Allowg lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) upl to raise boys and girls, they may attt, endangers healthy child velopment myriad ways.

WHAT WOULD YOU DO?: GAY PARENTS BASHED IN A RTRANT IN TEXAS

Certaly, sce that 1998 cisn, homosexualy has bee creasgly accepted, and urts are ls likely to le agast platiffs solely on the basis of their sexual orientatns [source: Stacey and Biblarz].

Nohels, social ristance to gay parentg still simmers, often hgg on bygone stereotyp. In Augt 2010, for stance, Tony Perks, print of the Fay Rearch Council that promot heterosexual marriage, told CBS' "Face the Natn" that "no evince" existed that children raised by gay parents fare as well as those raised by straight on [source: Media Matters].

GAY PARENTS BASHED (VIO)

Kids Will Be Gay.

Gay Parents Raise Kids the Same as Straight Parents.

Many a wary eye has been st on published amic rearch that's found no adverse risk associated wh gay parentg, unr the assumptn 's tated wh liberal bias [source: Kix]. But the body of rearch nducted on LGBT parents and their children has been overwhelmgly posive enough for a host of rpected profsnal anizatns to issue public statements givg gay parentg their stamp of approval. It reerated that, based on scientific lerature, "children who grow up wh one or two gay and/or lbian parents fare as well emotnal, gnive, social and sexual functng as do children whose parents are heterosexual" [source: Perr].

HOW TO ACCEPT THAT YOU ARE GAY

Today, though legal obstacl are still an issue, lbians are more likely to have children than gay mal, bee the hurdl to gay men beg fathers -- adoptn, foster re and surrogacy -- rema higher by virtue of their blogil sex. By one 2010 timate, 41 percent of 10-year-old children wh gay parents enuntered bullyg or isolatn [source: Park].

In addn, 25 years' worth of studi nsistently bunk theori that psychologil and social pfalls are store for children of lbian and gay parents. Out of anxiety, prsn, substance abe and socializatn aren't markedly different for kids raised gay- or lbian-head hoeholds pared to those om heterosexual-head hoeholds.

VIO: GAY PARENTS BASHED

2: Kids Will Be Gay. One of the most mon anxieti regardg LGBT parentg is that the children will, evably, e out as homosexual.

Still, regardls of whether homosexualy is viewed as a negative oute for a child, the statistics dite that children don't necsarily her the intil genr and sexual inti of their parents.

GAY PARENTS BASHED

Rearch on kids raised by lbian upl (data on gay male parentg remas relatively sparse) has found that they nform ls to pk-and-blue divid genr rol and stereotyp, but a majory ultimately intify as heterosexual adulthood [sourc: Park, Patterson]. For example, one 1989 study of adolcents raised by lbians and heterosexual parents, the only participant to intify as homosexual belonged to a hetero-head hoehold [source: Patterson].

A ntroversial 2010 study om Kansas State Universy fay studi profsor Walter Schumm did suggt that gay and lbian parents may sway their children's orientatns toward non-heterosexualy [source: Schumm]. In his examatn of 262 children of gay fathers and lbian mothers, the number of those who intified as LGBT spanned om 16 to 57 percent. 1: Gay Parents Raise Kids the Same as Straight Parents.

The ia that same-sex upl raise children and manage hoeholds intilly to straight parents might seem like somethg gay parentg advot would want to prerve, but simply isn't accurate. Until the early 2000s, rearch on gay parentg and child velopment out were largely foced on drawg parallels between LGBT and heterosexual parents as a way to remove sexual orientatn as some sort of dangero gredient the plited stew of child rearg. But sce data have clearly monstrated that kids raised by gay and lbian parents grow to succsful, well-adjted young adults, parents of all strip n take away an important lson: There is more than one road to raisg a happy, healthy child.