Qutn: TWO months ago my son Gav, 29, announced that he is gay. He me home one weekend to expla to me and my hband that he has been livg wh his partner for three months and has known he was gay sce he was 17.
Contents:
- WHAT TO DO WHEN YOUR CHILD SAYS: "I'M GAY"
- MY SON MIGHT BE GAY. WHAT SHOULD I SAY TO HIM?
- HOW TO SUPPORT YOUR GAY CHILD
- 7 TIPS FOR TALKG TO YOUR GAY SON ABOUT PREP
- I NNOT AL WH FACT MY SON IS GAY
- HOW TO TALK TO YOUR CHILD WHO IS QUTNG OR INTIFI AS LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER OR ASEXUAL (LGBTQA)
- YOUR CHILD JT TOLD YOU HE'S GAY. NOW WHAT?
- THE NEW NORMAL: HOW TO TALK TO YOUR KIDS ABOUT GAY PARENTS, BY A GAY DAD
- HOW TO TALK ABOUT BEG GAY
WHAT TO DO WHEN YOUR CHILD SAYS: "I'M GAY"
Advice for parents wh LGBTQ kids to help support and show them love. What to do when your kids e out to you as lbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer. * how to talk to my gay son *
When parents learn that their child is gay, lbian, bisexual, or transgenr, they n experience a range of emotns.
As a matter of fact, you might someday look back and fd that you are grateful for the experience of havg a gay or lbian child. Well, my study of 65 fai of gay and lbian youth for the book, Comg Out, Comg Home: Helpg Fai Adjt to a Gay or Lbian Child, I found that some parents get to the pot where they believe that the experience of havg a gay child actually ma them a better person—more open-md and sensive to the needs of others, particularly those other mory groups.
MY SON MIGHT BE GAY. WHAT SHOULD I SAY TO HIM?
* how to talk to my gay son *
If you jt found out your child is gay, lbian, bisexual, or transgenr, you may be thkg that such ias are prepostero. The tstworthy nfidants let them vent but also rrected some of the misperceptns they absorbed om society, such as that gay people are lonely, unhappy, promiscuo, not fay-oriented, unable to have children, or sted for an unhappy life. Contact Parents, Fay, and Friends of Lbians and Gays (PFLAG).
List of Helpful Books for Parents of Gay and Lbian Children.
Straight Parents Gay Children: Keepg Fai Together (revised edn).
HOW TO SUPPORT YOUR GAY CHILD
Beyond Acceptance: Parents of Lbians, and Gays Talk About Their Experienc. Somethg to Tell You: The Road Fai Travel when a Child is Gay. Comg Out, Comg Home: Helpg Fai Adjt to a Gay or Lbian Child.
Fortunate Fai: Catholic fai wh lbian dghters and gay sons.
Mom, Dad, I'm Gay: How Fai Negotiate Comg Out. Dave, I have a 17-year-old son, and I am fairly sure he is gay. I psed on our lol PBS affiliate, where a huge choir was sgg, and after a few sends I realized was the Gay Men's Chos of some cy or another dog a fundraisg ncert.
7 TIPS FOR TALKG TO YOUR GAY SON ABOUT PREP
At this time my life, I was 99 percent certa I was gay, though nowhere near ready to sprg on my parents.
We had no gay people our liv back then, no way to gge my fay's level of tolerance.
I NNOT AL WH FACT MY SON IS GAY
We had no gay people our liv back then, no way to gge my fay's level of watched as they livered a rendn of what I remember as "Somewhere Over the Rabow, " bee eher they or my memory are unfivably basic. Stirrg and brave and subversive, g as did a time before marriage equaly was on the map, a time when you only saw gay people on the news.
HOW TO TALK TO YOUR CHILD WHO IS QUTNG OR INTIFI AS LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER OR ASEXUAL (LGBTQA)
Good on you for not pot-blank askg your son whether he's gay. It means one simple, pable thg: Once you have told your dad you're gay, there is no gog back. Right now, he has to be secretive, not bee he's gay, but bee he's 17.
I'd love to say that you should do a big, showy "Hey, I sure do like those gay people" at the dner table.
YOUR CHILD JT TOLD YOU HE'S GAY. NOW WHAT?
I wish were as simple and CBS-smy as ve the gay guy om work to fay bowlg night. It’s no different for parents of LGBTQ (Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, and Queer) children.
And fay rejectn has a ser impact on a gay or transgenr young person’s risk for health and mental health problems. "I enurage parents to not assume that [they] know what LGBTQ youth are experiencg, " Kirk Shepard, a licensed profsnal unselor Portland, Oregon, told NBC OUT regardg the 2016 attack where an assailant killed 49 people a gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, and jured many more.
In our town, we are the gay "go-to" people — pecially for parents and grandparents of gay kids.
THE NEW NORMAL: HOW TO TALK TO YOUR KIDS ABOUT GAY PARENTS, BY A GAY DAD
" Beg openly gay may be the most urageo choice your son, dghter, grandson or granddghter will ever make. "I don't know how to tell iends and fay about my gay kid or grandkid.
HOW TO TALK ABOUT BEG GAY
Wh more people livg openly, seems that nearly everyone knows someone gay. Nearly everyone knows and lik/lov someone gay.
"Now that I know my kid is gay, I'm ncerned about same-sex sleepovers. " If the ia of your dghter sleepg wh her boyiend unr your own roof at the age of 16 sets off every bad parentg bell the universe for you, hold your gay son or dghter to the same standards. We're sure he would e out if only he didn't thk his mom hadn't already submted her résumé for an open posn at PFLAG, which stands for Parents, Fay & Friends of Lbians and Gays.
"I was jt settlg to the gay thg and now she tells me she lik a boy. I recently checked wh a iend about her gay high school senr. "I really want him to meet some other nice gay people.