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Contents:

• WHEN DO GAY KIDS START “ACTG GAY”?
• I WAS MARRIED WH 2 KIDS WHEN I REALIZED I’M GAY
• MOVG PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERS WH THEIR FAI ACROSS AMERI
• THE CHILDREN OF GAY PARENTS SPEAK FOR THEMSELV
• MY HBAND IS GAY BUT WE’RE MARRIED WH TWO KIDS AND HAVE GREAT SEX

WHEN DO GAY KIDS START “ACTG GAY”?

Story of a Gay Kid. 2017 Natnal Indie Excellence Award Wner for LGBTQ Fictn for Children and Young AdultsA graphic novel that teach teens about the history of gay rights Ameri while emphasizg the recurrg theme that “It’s okay to be gay. Wh the help of a tsted teacher, a new iend, and his favore book, he disvers what he knew all you'll fd three stori braid to one: a g-of-age g out story, a lson on civil rights and marriage equaly, and historil fictn about a gay man the ary.

And you'll read about how Cael out as gay, fortable wh who he is and nfint that 's okay. Wh bold illtratns and an engagg, rmative text, Strong troduc rears to Rob Kearney and his journey om an athletic kid tryg to fd his place to the world’s first openly gay profsnal strongman.

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I WAS MARRIED WH 2 KIDS WHEN I REALIZED I’M GAY

The GayBCs. Featurg bright illtratns and upbeat, accsible poems, The GayBCs is perfect for fans of A Is for Activist and Femist Baby—showg kids and adults alike that every inty is worthy of beg celebrated.

When do gay kids start “actg gay”? A Mnota school district is facg a Department of Jtice vtigatn and a private lawsu over s alleged failure to bat antigay bullyg.

When do gay children start exhibg telltale signs? A hefty pile of rearch shows that boys as young as 3 years old who break om tradnal genr rol have a high likelihood of beg gay adults.

MOVG PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERS WH THEIR FAI ACROSS AMERI

) The relatnship isn’t one-to-one, however, and ’s certaly not the se that all boys who love Barbie dolls will later intify as gay. The rrelatn is much weaker the other directn: A disproportnate number of boys who don’t nform to genr stereotyp turn out to be gay men, but lots of gay men played wh G. Thirty of them beme gay or bisexual adults while jt one child om a 34-member genr-nformg ntrol group turned out to be gay.

The subjects who strayed the most om nventnally boyish behavr were the most likely to be gay. There is no magil age at which children adopt stereotypilly gay behavr and keep to adulthood. Some mothers tell psychologists that they sensed their ltle boy was gay durg fancy.

THE CHILDREN OF GAY PARENTS SPEAK FOR THEMSELV

Some rearchers thk genr nonnformg children e their toys to rehearse for a gay adulthood. Gay 3-year-old boys n’t verbalize their sire to be wh a man when they grow up—although many such children exhib cshlike behavr toward adult men—but they may be tryg to learn the behavr that will later attract a male partner.

How AIDS shattered the silence about gay liv. There’s a price of admissn for g out as gay later life. I kept wag for the moment where I would realize I was no longer gay so I uld put a halt to everythg.

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

I was nsumed by the p my stomach – the shame of endg my marriage bee I was gay was like luggg a sandbag over my shoulrs and havg a rock my stomach at the same time. I wasn’t sure how to tell my nservative, Geia-born and bred parents that their former pageant queen dghter was endg her marriage bee she is gay.

I wasn’t brave enough to actually say the words – the label of beg gay or a lbian was too much for my soul to bear at the time – so I sent her a text msage, “I am not straight. Democratic printial ndidate Pete Buttigieg – who, like me, is his late 30s and, like me, me out publicly jt a few years ago – put this way: “It’s hard to face the tth that there were tim my life when, if you had shown me exactly what was si me that ma me gay, I would have cut out wh a knife. There was such a big part of me that did not want to be gay.