I Was The Gay Kid, And Your Kid Might Be Too (So Practice Acceptance Startg Now)

Contents:

• PARENTS OF GAY CHILDREN AND THE ISSU THEY FACE
• CHILD STAR STGGLED TO E OUT AFTER PLAYG ‘THE GAY KID’ ‘SCHOOL OF ROCK’
• IS YOUR CHILD GAY?
• GAY PARENTS RAISG KIDS: HOW WILL THEY FARE?
• HOW TO RPOND WHEN YOUR CHILD TELLS YOU THEY'RE GAY
• I WAS THE GAY KID, AND YOUR KID MIGHT BE TOO (SO PRACTICE ACCEPTANCE STARTG NOW)

PARENTS OF GAY CHILDREN AND THE ISSU THEY FACE

Parents of gay children may be shocked when their kids e out of the closet, but once the dt settl, most parents realize that their child is the same one they have loved and red for all their liv, they jt happen to be gay. And while parental acceptance is one hurdle for a gay child, there are many other issu facg gay kids and their parents. Issu for parents of gay kids as intified by Parents, Fai and Friends of Lbians and Gays (PFLAG), clu:1.

Fay acceptance – n the rt of the fay accept the gay child as the parents of the gay child has. Hate crim preventn – workg to prevent gay bashg and other forms of hate crim agast gay kids.

Relatnship regnn – workg to achieve equal rights and regnn for gay relatnships as for heterosexual relatnships. Workplace fairns – supportg the gay child and any issu they face when enterg the workforce. Sometim, long before a child out as gay, a parent spects that a child might be gay.

CHILD STAR STGGLED TO E OUT AFTER PLAYG ‘THE GAY KID’ ‘SCHOOL OF ROCK’

It may be that the child bucks tradnal genr stereotyp or they may not show attentn to the oppose sex; but are the signs of a gay child? Acrdg to some rearch, genr atypil behavr may, fact, be an ditor that the child may grow up to be gay.

IS YOUR CHILD GAY?

So, for example, boys that play wh dolls and have primarily girliends or girls who are tomboys and prefer to play wh guns may have an creased likelihood of growg up to be gay. Another sign your child might be gay is if he is a male that choos more solary sports such as cyclg or swimmg. There also appears to be a relatnship where the more a child shows genr-nonnformg characteristics, the greater the chance that they may grow up to be gay.

While knowg your child is gay may help you ease the transn to adulthood, 's cril to remember that a gay child is jt a child like any other and a parent of gay child is jt a parent, like any other. Parents of gay kids mt e to accept and love their children for who they are and not bee of their sexualy.

There is no doubt though, parents of gay children often go through an adjtment perd. The most well-known anizatn is Parents, Fai and Friends of Lbians and Gays (PFLAG). PFLAG was started 1972 wh the act of a mother publicly supportg her gay son.

GAY PARENTS RAISG KIDS: HOW WILL THEY FARE?

Parents of gay kids n fd 200, 000 PFLAG supporters 350 chapters across the Uned Stat. PFLAG supports loved on of homosexuals by providg helpl, support group meetgs, tn and rourc.

PFLAG also advot for the rights of homosexuals on a lol, state and natnal level.

HOW TO RPOND WHEN YOUR CHILD TELLS YOU THEY'RE GAY

Former child actor Brian Falduto says that he wasn’t able to e out until his senr year of llege bee of the stggl he faced after beg dubbed “the gay kid” om “School of Rock. “I was so much nial [about my sexualy growg up], ” he said on the “Cooper and Anthony Show, ” “Thk about : I was the fifth gra when this movie me out and I was lled gay, and then someone told me that’s not ol, so I was jt like, ‘Oh, ok, then I’m not gay’. “So I was nyg before I even had a notn of what [beg gay] was, ” he told rad hosts Cooper Lawrence and Anthony Michaels.

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

Beg known as “the gay kid” om “School of Rock” stopped Brian Falduto om g out for years. “So by the time I realized I was potentially gay, I was already homophobic towards myself, sentially, ” Falduto, who is now an actor, filmmaker, mician and life ach said.

"How you react to your gay or transgenr children has a ep and lastg impact on their liv, " the Fay Acceptance Project says an rmatn gui.

Project director Cal Ryan utns parents agast exprsg shame that their child me out or preventg them om fdg an LGBT support Montgomery of Chandler, Ariz., wasn’t sure what to do when she realized her then-13-year-old son Jordan might be gay. "Comg om a very nservative, very Orthodox, multigeneratnal Mormon home, I didn’t know any gay people, " she says.