Prcipal Dadier: I am one gay black kid gettg punched the face away om a nervo breakdown.

Contents:

• MY HBAND IS GAY BUT WE’RE MARRIED WH TWO KIDS AND HAVE GREAT SEX
• I LIKE GUYS BUT I DON’T WANT TO BE GAY. HOW DO I STOP BEG GAY?
• GAY ADOPTN OF BLACK CHILDREN RAIS CONCERNS
• WHAT IF MY 4-YEAR-OLD SON IS GAY LIKE ME?
• I WAS THE GAY KID, AND YOUR KID MIGHT BE TOO (SO PRACTICE ACCEPTANCE STARTG NOW)
• MORN DOS AND DON'TS FOR PARENTS OF GAY KIDS G OUT

MY HBAND IS GAY BUT WE’RE MARRIED WH TWO KIDS AND HAVE GREAT SEX

Prcipal Dadier: I am one gay black kid gettg punched the face away om a nervo breakdown. 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?

Would he have to live a gay-iendly neighborhood?

I LIKE GUYS BUT I DON’T WANT TO BE GAY. HOW DO I STOP BEG GAY?

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. 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.

GAY ADOPTN OF BLACK CHILDREN RAIS CONCERNS

Gay children are no different—so ltle of their sexual orientatn has to do wh who they are as a whole. "It is rare to work wh parents of a gay child who have not stggled wh the feelg of loss at some pot the procs of acceptg their child as gay, " my -thor, Jonathan Tobk, M.

Parents feel sad that their gay child has lost the possibily of havg a life whout signifint difficulty.

" Yet Tobk has found that "gay people tell you they are happy wh who they are and feel that they have emerged on the other si of g out as strong, sensive, and rilient dividuals. Havg a gay child is not a loss of a child altogether. A woman has revealed how she’s married to a gay man and the pair have two young kids together.

WHAT IF MY 4-YEAR-OLD SON IS GAY LIKE ME?

The mom-of-two scrib herself as straight while her hband Matthew intifi as gay or pansexual, admtg he is “more attracted to men than women”. Brynn met Matthew for the first time at church early 2016 and jt a few dat , he revealed he was gay.

@gayprofsordad / SWNS. Matthew had known he was attracted to men sce he was a teenager, but he belonged to the Church which do not enurage homosexual relatnships. The mom-of-two, who liv Ypsilanti, Michigan said: “He looked straight at me and said ‘Brynn, I’m gay.

I thk that many more people are gay, bi, pan, or other, than have ma that known openly. “I’ve heard gay men say that they n’t even image tryg to be sexual wh a woman, and I have never felt that way.

I WAS THE GAY KID, AND YOUR KID MIGHT BE TOO (SO PRACTICE ACCEPTANCE STARTG NOW)

The mom-of-two scrib herself as straight while her hband Matthew intifi as gay or pansexual, admtg he is “more attracted to men than women.

”@gayprofsordad / SWNS. While Brynn is a straight woman, Matthew’s sexualy isn’t lear and he has intified as gay, pansexual and bisexual. You n follow Brynn and Matthew on Instagram at @gayprofsordad.

I like guys but I don’t want to be gay. How do I stop beg gay?

MORN DOS AND DON'TS FOR PARENTS OF GAY KIDS G OUT

You don’t need to be certa you are gay before talkg to someone or attendg an LGBTQ+ meetg. I am a gay male.

I have been out nearly 7 years now (age 16, sophomore year of HS).