For most kids, the social prsur of middle school are tough enough. But an creasg number of young teenagers, some as young 10 or 11, are g out as gay or lbian middle school. Beno Denizet-Lewis, who wrote about the trend the New York Tim Magaze, discs what social factors uld be leadg young people to e out earlier.
Contents:
- 12-YEAR-OLD BOY ON ‘THE CONNERS:’ 'I'M GLAD I'M GAY!'
- 12-YEAR-OLD'S IENDS DIDN'T CELEBRATE AFTER HE ME OUT AS GAY. SO A PARK FULL OF STRANGERS DID
- MOM ENURAG GAY 12-YEAR-OLD BOYS' DATE ON ‘A MILLN LTLE THGS’
- COMG OUT AS GAY IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
- GAY TENN. 12-YEAR-OLD STILL FIGHTG THE ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL HE HELPED KILL
- GAY YOUTH COMG OUT IN MIDDLE SCHOOL
- APPLE APPROV 'ONLY GAY SOCIAL APP FOR AG 12 AND UP'
- IS YOUR CHILD GAY?
12-YEAR-OLD BOY ON ‘THE CONNERS:’ 'I'M GLAD I'M GAY!'
ABC’s The Conners has left hts here and there that Darlene’s (Sara Gilbert) 12-year-old son Mark (Am McNamara) might be gay and om the start of Tuday night’s episo, “A Kiss is Jt a Kiss,” Mark is seen wearg a skirt over legggs. But ’s when the prcipal lls to rm Darlene that Mark is trouble for kissg a boy at school that we fd out there is no longer any doubt that the young boy is gay. * gay 12 year old *
The problem is, even many of those articl are really jt a llectn of stance the Calgary Journal, an article entled, "When do most homosexuals know they're gay? Until you read on and disver that the source for their data is "many the homosexual muny. "And then went on wh even more actual facts as they ced a natnal survey of 1, 752 llege stunts:* 48% of self-intified gay and bisexual llege stunts beme aware of their sexual preference high school while 26% found their te sexualy llege.
* 20% of self-intified gay and bisexual men knew that they were gay or bisexual junr high school, and 17% said they knew gra school. * 6% of self-intified gay or bisexual women knew that they were gay or bisexual junr high school, and 11% knew gra school. “You serly have a problem wh people beg gay?
12-YEAR-OLD'S IENDS DIDN'T CELEBRATE AFTER HE ME OUT AS GAY. SO A PARK FULL OF STRANGERS DID
Thursday night, A Milln Ltle Thgs returned—and so did the gay agenda for children. Jt time for Valente’s Day, the episo “The Rock,” featured young Danny gog on his first date—wh a boy. We already knew om one of the first episos that Danny (Chance Hurstfield) is attracted to other boys—somethg his fay has unqutngly enuraged. * gay 12 year old *
“So you’re homophobic?
“So you jt blatantly adm to beg homophobic? “She’s gay and you blatantly said you don’t support gay people, ” he ntu, drivg his pot home. He go on another vio to try to expla that not all LGBTQ people are gay his own 12-year-old way, but didn’t seem to nvce the other players.
##htryghisbt #homophobia ##brothers♬ origal sound – LtleCanary. @bummblebeo__that’s my boy ##brothers #homophobia ##lgbt ##A+♬ origal sound – LtleCanary. Pastor tells flock homosexualy is a “monic spir” stealg Christian children.
MOM ENURAG GAY 12-YEAR-OLD BOYS' DATE ON ‘A MILLN LTLE THGS’
* gay 12 year old *
Catholic school revers cisn to fire a gay ach after stunts ept anger.
ABC’s The Conners has left hts here and there that Darlene’s (Sara Gilbert) 12-year-old son Mark (Am McNamara) might be gay and om the start of Tuday night’s episo, “A Kiss is Jt a Kiss, ” Mark is seen wearg a skirt over legggs. But ’s when the prcipal lls to rm Darlene that Mark is trouble for kissg a boy at school that we fd out there is no longer any doubt that the young boy is gay.
He only told me he was gay last week.
COMG OUT AS GAY IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Your kid's not gonna tch beg gay any more than he's gonna tch beg a cranky, old wench like you.
Maybe you don't want to accept the fact that your grandkid might be gay, but you srg him to nyg ’s jt gonna his life. Of urse, the person who is opposed to homosexualy is hateful and cel. They never portray people of Christian fah, for example, who believe homosexualy is a s, but are still kd and lovg to all.
GAY TENN. 12-YEAR-OLD STILL FIGHTG THE ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL HE HELPED KILL
Mark: My life would be so much easier if I wasn't gay.
I'm glad I'm gay! But Hollywood is really phg the homosexual angle on children lately.
Last fall ABC had pre-teens e out as gay on This Is Us and A Milln Ltle Thgs. 'It's outrageoly amazg that this ltle kid, even wh all this adversy, n still be out here'Surprise birthday party shows gay youth he's not Neville lost iends after he me out, so his mom asked others to show support for her 12-year-old son. A crowd full of strangers filled a northwt Calgary park to celebrate a boy's rabow-themed birthday durg Pri O'Donnell says when her son Brody Neville me out as gay this sprg, the 12-year-old lost many of his ma the prospect of celebratg his birthday this year a sad one.
GAY YOUTH COMG OUT IN MIDDLE SCHOOL
"I was askg him what he wanted to do for his birthday and he was tears and said sce he me out as gay he lost all his iends, so he didn't even have people who uld e, " O'Donnell said. Thursday night, A Milln Ltle Thgs returned—and so did the gay agenda for children. He do however, talk to his Uncle Gary (Jam Roday) who enuraged him to e out as gay the first place.
APPLE APPROV 'ONLY GAY SOCIAL APP FOR AG 12 AND UP'
Hopefully A Milln Ltle Thgs don't take this gay child storyle any further wh A Very Special Episo about the boys' first sexual enunter. Maybe parents should foc ls on enuragg homosexual sir at such a young age and more on helpg them grow and velop as a young adult. ”Dannielle Owens-Reid and Krist Rso, -founrs of Everyone Is Gay and -thors of This Is a Book for Parents of Gay Kids, attribute lower g-out ag to the power of reprentatn.
IS YOUR CHILD GAY?
The next generatn is growg up wh gay characters on their televisns, pansexual rappers on their playlists, and queer micro-muni on their Tumblr the change also means that there is a new generatn of fai scramblg to raise LGBT kids who have specific needs and challeng — kids who are growg up a society that, while creasgly LGBT-tolerant, is still plagued by hate crim, job discrimatn, and the more banal, everyday sort of homophobia borne by sual ignorance. “Beg gay was somethg I never really qutned, ” said Chloe Charbonne, a 12-year-old om Stockbridge, Massachetts. ”Like Kate Ree, Chloe spent early childhood sred and nfed about cshg on girls, pecially after beg lled an anti-gay slur for the first time the fourth gra.
“From then on, I pretend to like boys, bee I thought that [gay] was a wrong thg to be.