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Contents:
- ‘LAST CALL’ TE STORY: HBO DOC IS ABOUT THE SERIAL KILLER RICHARD ROGERS, WHO TARGETED MANHATTAN’S GAY BARS
- JENNA WOLFE, TODAY SHOW ANCHOR, COM OUT AS GAY, ANNOUNC SHE’S EXPECTG A BABY GIRL WH GIRLIEND STEPHANIE GOSK
- I TRIED TO STOP MY SON OM BEG GAY. HERE’S WHAT I WISH I HAD KNOWN
- MOLLY SHANNON RELLS FDG OUT HER FATHER WAS GAY BEFORE HIS ATH
- NBC ELECTN ANALYST STEVE KORNACKI IS OPENLY GAY AND A BIG SPORTS FAN
‘LAST CALL’ TE STORY: HBO DOC IS ABOUT THE SERIAL KILLER RICHARD ROGERS, WHO TARGETED MANHATTAN’S GAY BARS
On The Howard Stern Show, Molly Shannon shared how she found out her father was gay and how ma his stggl over the years more unrstandable to her. * today show gay *
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JENNA WOLFE, TODAY SHOW ANCHOR, COM OUT AS GAY, ANNOUNC SHE’S EXPECTG A BABY GIRL WH GIRLIEND STEPHANIE GOSK
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I TRIED TO STOP MY SON OM BEG GAY. HERE’S WHAT I WISH I HAD KNOWN
Steve Kornacki sh on electn night and do as an openly gay man and huge sports fan. * today show gay *
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By now u probably have an ia of what i am about to I am gayRyan: i n’t believe i jt told youMom: Are you jokg?
Ryan: i know i amRyan: i don’t like hannahRyan: ’s jt a ver-upMom: but that don’t make you gay…Ryan: i knowRyan: but u don’t unrstandRyan: i am gayMom: tell me moreRyan: ’s jt the way i am and ’s somethg i knowRyan: u r not a lbian and u know that. Ryan: i am jt gayRyan: i am thatMom: I love you no matter whatRyan: i am whe not blackRyan: i knowRyan: i am a boy not a girlRyan: i am attracted to boys not girlsRyan: u know that about yourself and i know thisMom: what about what God thks about actg on the sir?
MOLLY SHANNON RELLS FDG OUT HER FATHER WAS GAY BEFORE HIS ATH
Not that we didn’t know and love gay people — my only brother had e out to several years before, and we adored him.
NBC ELECTN ANALYST STEVE KORNACKI IS OPENLY GAY AND A BIG SPORTS FAN
The feelgs you’ve had for other guys don’t make you gay. So please don’t tell anyone that you ARE gay. Your inty is not that you are gay — is that you are a child of love you.
He read all the Christian books that explaed where his gay feelgs me om and dove to unselg to further disver the orig of his unwanted attractn to other guys. And we lost the abily to love our gay son, bee we no longer had a gay son. What we had wished, prayed and hoped for — that we would not have a gay son — me te.
But not at all the way we had, when I thk back on the fear that erned all my reactns durg those first six years after Ryan told he was gay, I crge as I realize how foolish I was.