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gay experience as a child

Jsi L. Stanley, Kim Bartholomew, Doug Oram, Gay and Bisexual Men's Age-Discrepant Childhood Sexual Experienc, The Journal of Sex Rearch, Vol. 41, No. 4 (Nov., 2004), pp. 381-389

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WHEN YOUR CHILD IS GAY

Many of the straight parents I terviewed for When Your Child Is Gay: What You Need To Know exprsed havg felt disappotment learng that their child was LGBT. Would he be fired at his job if his supervisors found out that he were gay?

EXPLAG IT TO YOUR KIDS: WHAT DO 'BEG GAY' MEAN?

Would he have to live a gay-iendly neighborhood?

Natalie, 63, a mother om Long Island, found out that two of her three children were gay.

" Natalie felt that was a loss to the fay geic pool and kept wonrg if beg gay was a choice.

WHAT TO DO WHEN YOUR CHILD SAYS: "I'M GAY"

Richard Ogawa of Seattle figured out he was gay llege. Richard told me, "Perhaps if every parent toyed wh the possibily that any of their children uld be gay, would change the way they raise their children.

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