BBC - "I'm proud of my gay Mlim son"

Contents:

• DAD ACCINTALLY DISVERS HIS TEENAGE SON IS GAY, CONSULTS REDD ON HOW TO RPOND
• THIS IS HOW I REALLY REACTED WHEN MY SON TOLD ME HE WAS GAY
• DAD ACCINTALLY FDS OUT HIS SON IS GAY, ASKS REDD FOR HELP
• GAY MEN AND THEIR MOTHERS: IS THERE A SPECIAL CLOSENS?
• "I'M PROUD OF MY GAY MLIM SON"
• HOW DO I KNOW I’M NOT REALLY GAY/STRAIGHT?
• 'RETURN THE KEY': THE PARENTS WHO REJECT THEIR GAY CHILDREN

DAD ACCINTALLY DISVERS HIS TEENAGE SON IS GAY, CONSULTS REDD ON HOW TO RPOND

Accintally found out 12 y/o son is gay.

When he was younger we had spicns he would turn out gay, so we always showsed our support so we knew he’d be fortable if he was, but once he h puberty was clear he was to girls, always talked about them, never showed tert boys romantilly, and started datg a girl a few months back. My 12 y/o is a sweet boy, but we (largely due to stereotyp, which you n blame on ), never spected he was gay. His boyiend’s parents know they’re a uple, and his boyiend is openly gay to their school as well.

THIS IS HOW I REALLY REACTED WHEN MY SON TOLD ME HE WAS GAY

He’s been askg some more qutns about dynamics a gay relatnship, and also been askg about gay history (he’s a very smart boy). I'm proud of my gay son, Kris Bryant.

Homophob of Redd, why are you homophobic? Barbra Streisand’s son Jason Gould me out to her as gay 1998 and he spects she was “already” aware.

After Lil Nas X me out publicly as gay and fully embraced his sexualy his Montero (Call Me By Your Name) mic vio, his father, gospel mician Robert Stafford, wrote on Instagram, “Very creative vio. I hope you know that I am more than ‘okay’ wh ; I rejoice that you are gay! Tori Spellg & Dean McDermott are no strangers to parentg an LGBTQ+ child — McDermott’s olst son, Jack, is gay.

DAD ACCINTALLY FDS OUT HIS SON IS GAY, ASKS REDD FOR HELP

Durg a film screeng of his movie My Fake Boyiend  June, McDermott posted an Instagram Story which said, part, “The thg I love about this movie is I got to share wh my 15-year-old, who intifi as trans, and my gay son.

In December 2021, By Philipps announced on her podst, By Philipps is Dog Her Bt, that her child Birdie is gay and prefers they/them pronouns.

GAY MEN AND THEIR MOTHERS: IS THERE A SPECIAL CLOSENS?

“As a parent, I wanted EJ to know that we loved him and would always love him, ” Magic Johnson told the New York Tim of his reactn when his son, makp artist EJ Johnson, me out to him as gay when he was a teenager. “I me out to them, and they were very acceptg, ” Zeke Thomas, who is gay, told Out of his parents. Growg up, I had gay uncl, like every kid Ameri.

“As long as I am upright, I will fight [so] that Sam and everyone’s children and grandchildren and sisters and brothers will be protected every state of the Uned Stat, ” Sally Field said of her son, Sam Greisman, who is gay — and why she’s a part of the Human Rights Campaign’s work towards the Equaly Act.

Marcia Gay Harn. “My son is gay. I jt want to make sure he gets to have a fay when he wants one, ” Marcia Gay Harn said of son Hudson at the Fay Equaly Council’s Impact Awards.

"I'M PROUD OF MY GAY MLIM SON"

First, my wife will be unhappy to learn our son is gay. For help alg wh all this, ntact PFLAG, which giv valuable support to parents wh gay children.

And the ways anti-LGBTQ laws harm the kids specifilly are a gapg hole our natnal nversatn about the impact of legislatn like Florida’s recently implemented Parental Rights Edutn law — what crics have lled the “Don’t Say Gay” law — which lims discsn of LGBTQ issu krgarten through the third the dghter of a gay man, I am vastated to image what would have been like to keep my father’s inty a secret at school. As the dghter of a gay man, I am vastated to image what would have been like to keep my father’s inty a secret at school. Wh classrooms and clubs, I wrote says, chose monologu and picked rearch topics nnected to my personal experience of havg a gay parent.

The other issue that plays a part leavg straight children out of the discsn is that while there are many tablished advocy groups for LGBTQ children, straight children of gay parents fall to a murky middle area where rourc are srce.

HOW DO I KNOW I’M NOT REALLY GAY/STRAIGHT?

COLAGE (formally Children of Lbians and Gays Everywhere) is the only natnal anizatn dited to kids wh LGBTQ parents, no matter a child’s sexual orientatn or genr inty. She has recently begun wrg about growg up wh a parent who me out as gay, and her work is centered on holdg space for many thgs to be te at once. So when a 38-year-old sgle dad accintally saw that his 13-year-old son had been lookg up thgs along the l of "I'm gay, what now, " he was nflicted.

'RETURN THE KEY': THE PARENTS WHO REJECT THEIR GAY CHILDREN

The fellas at r/askgaybros were happy to share their put. Another suggted the dad let his son "e to you wh this, " suggtg t he meantime, he start beg discretely supportive of LGBT matters, by "[makg] a posive remark when gay marriage is discsed on tv, pliment(ig) a show for their clivens of LGBT characters, etc.

In an update posted to Redd a few days later, he explaed that he "started off wh talkg about general media wh [his son], " like "how awome was that Tim Cook (CEO of Apple) me out as beg gay... That night, after a few sends of silence, the son told his father, "I'm gay.

As I relayed When Your Child Is Gay: What You Need To Know (Sterlg, 2016), I found out that my son was gay om a note wh our son's name entwed wh another boy's, surround by a heart. I had spected at tim that he was gay. Had I asked him if he were gay when he was 13, he probably would have fensively said "No!