10 Tips for Parents of Gay Kids

Contents:

• NOT READY TO LOVE A GAY CHILD? THEN DON'T HAVE KIDS
• I LIKE GUYS BUT I DON’T WANT TO BE GAY. HOW DO I STOP BEG GAY?
• Y, I WANT MY SON TO BE HAPPY AND REEE, BUT NOT NECSARILY GAY
• 'ACCEPT' AND 'TOLERATE' MY GAY KID? THAT'S NOT GOOD ENOUGH
• 10 TIPS FOR PARENTS OF GAY KIDS
• I DON'T WANT MY TEEN HANGG AROUND GAY PARENTS
• AS A GAY MAN I'M OFTEN TOLD I DON'T SERVE TO HAVE CHILDREN OF MY OWN. I ABSOLUTELY DISAGREE, AND HERE'S WHY.

NOT READY TO LOVE A GAY CHILD? THEN DON'T HAVE KIDS

That’s how I feel’The armageddon refers to his mum’s strong Jehovah’s Wns beliefs about the sfulns of homosexualy. “I remember one said about my mum, ‘this has to be one of the most hated parents Atralia.’”Chris, sadly, isn’t alone his story of parental rejectn.The fa of equalyAt the time I terviewed him, a Brazilian mother who killed her teenage son for beg gay is sentenced to 25 years prison. One 10 would feel unfortable livg at home wh their child if they me out as LGBT.Celebry stori of heartbreakg parental rejectn are also emergg.In November, the Amerin thor and producer Robyn Crawford released a book nfirmg she had had a romantic relatnship wh Whney Hoton – but had to abandon out of fear of the repercsns om Hoton’s mother.Asked by Oprah Wey if would have bothered her if her dghter was gay, Cissy Hoton said “Absolutely.” Shocked, Wey clarifi: you would not have liked that?“Not at all” is Cissy’s retort, fired back barely before the qutn has nclud.Actor Miriam Margoly told the Atralian Women’s Weekly of her own experienc 2018: “For my eply nventnal parents to have a lbian dghter would’ve been a nightmare ...

“She even worked Brisbane’s gay bar,” Chris says.

Before, I have likened beg gay to beg left-hand.

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

And mak jt as ltle sense to hate a gay kid, or marry someone who is gog to hate your gay kid. If someone is not prepared to cherish and celebrate a gay child, they have no bs beg a parent. If that's the se, here's an easy one:Kid: "Mom, Dad, I'm gay.

But providg support isn't always easy — pecially if you are the parent of a lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr or qutng (LGBTQ) child. Advote for a gay-straight alliance (GSA), which has been shown to make schools safer and boost amic performance among LGBTQ stunts. Team up wh a pediatrician, a unselor at school, close fay members and even muny anizatns — for example, Parents, Fai and Friends of Lbians and Gays (PFLAG) — if you’re havg trouble gog alone.

Y, I WANT MY SON TO BE HAPPY AND REEE, BUT NOT NECSARILY GAY

Parents, Fai and Friends of Lbian and Gays (PFLAG).

This Is a Book for Parents of Gay Kids by Dannielle Owens-Reid and Krist Rso. Everyone Is Gay.

I like guys but I don’t want to be gay.

'ACCEPT' AND 'TOLERATE' MY GAY KID? THAT'S NOT GOOD ENOUGH

How do I stop beg gay? 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).

10 TIPS FOR PARENTS OF GAY KIDS

That week I told my iends and fay I was gay. It is very homogeneo/ hetero-normative and beg a tholic stutn is not the easit environment for queer stunts.

I was travellg on the Inter Cy wh William, now five, and a iend who the urse of the nversatn mentned a mutual iend who is gay.

On hearg the word gay, he looked up and said, "Which kd of gay do you mean, Mum? What other sort of gay is there?

I DON'T WANT MY TEEN HANGG AROUND GAY PARENTS

"Who was tellg you about this sort of gay?

I didn't want to give any ditn that beg gay was somehow "wrong", bee I don't believe I don't want my son to be gay bee is, and will probably ntue to be, a hard, sometim lonely and necsarily secretive life for many gay what do this make me? Am I a Harriet Harmon, as "It's OK for everyone else's son to be gay, but not me?

"Of urse, I don't want William to be a ravg homophobe, but neher do I want him to thk that beg gay is somehow jt the same as beg heterosexual, bee isn', tell me, am I ridiculo to be angst-ridn about this? Rob Portman (R-Oh) reversed his stance on gay marriage, largely bee his son is gay, and although I felt like I should have been happy about , left a bad taste my mouth. Cizens, but my knee-jerk reactn was, "Oh, you support gay marriage now bee directly affects your fay?

AS A GAY MAN I'M OFTEN TOLD I DON'T SERVE TO HAVE CHILDREN OF MY OWN. I ABSOLUTELY DISAGREE, AND HERE'S WHY.

" I know that that thought was not genero, and I'm not proud of , but my tratn is real, and the problem of homophobia is U. It turns out that he has a gay son too, but his opposn to marriage equaly is not gog to change. I've been fortunate enough to hear om gay kids all across the untry.

I cherish the good stori, but there's often a moment those good stori that mak my heart hurt: when they tell me how happy they are that their parents "still" love them -- bee all those kids knew that not lovg them was an policians there is a lot talk of "acceptance" and "tolerance" when to homosexualy, and I n't help but thk that those are the wrong words. Beg gay. Anyone who thks that a child would make the choice to be gay is obte and not worth engagg a discsn of the people happen.

That means that gay children happen, and gay children n be born to anyone or adopted to any fay. If someone is not prepared to love a gay child, then what bs do they have parentg children at all? After all, they n't perform the number-one may feel that is possible to love a person and not accept that he or she is gay.