When Hannah Horvath's dad me out as gay on the TV show Girls, the fay was left reelg. Here's how to handle the news better (for YOU and your dad) if your parent out of the closet.
Contents:
- TOUCHG VIO SHOWS SON E OUT AS GAY TO MORMON DAD
- WHAT’S LIKE FOR A CHILD WHEN THEIR MUM OR DAD OUT AS GAY?
- AFTER 20 YEARS OF MARRIAGE, MY DAD CAME OUT AS GAY
- HOW I ACCINTALLY FOUND OUT MY DAD IS GAY
- MY DAD COMG OUT AS GAY CHANGED OUR LIV — AND GAVE ME THE COURAGE TO BE MYSELF
- HOW A SON AND DGHTER RPOND TO A GAY DAD COMG OUT
TOUCHG VIO SHOWS SON E OUT AS GAY TO MORMON DAD
Stt Takacs, a 46-year-old and father of three, penned a personal say about his experience g out as a gay man to his wife and his children. * dad comes out gay *
LUCIE - Comg out as gay is hard, but g out as gay to your Mormon dad is really Swk was preparg to go on his first missn trip wh the Church of J Christ of Latter-day Sats when he cid to reveal the news that he was gay to his dad, Vghn Swk. He cid to vio rerd his g out to his dad, and posted the reactn the vio above to see how Swk’s dad reacted to him g out as gay. Almost everyone who is gay remembers the profound experience of g out to their parents, the terror and anxiety of tellg people you love that you are not who they thk you are.
WHAT’S LIKE FOR A CHILD WHEN THEIR MUM OR DAD OUT AS GAY?
Although was fictn, Leavt’s novel unrsr the dilemma for the gay parent who clean. She has found her subjects through Colage, a support work for children of gay, lbian or transgenr parents that she was troduced to by her younger sister Paloma, who is also a lbian.
AFTER 20 YEARS OF MARRIAGE, MY DAD CAME OUT AS GAY
Photograph: Gabriela HermanGabriela was 29 before she uld brg herself to say out loud: “My mum is gay. “What I hear om a lot of my subjects, and n relate to, is that the gay thg tak precence over everythg else, so very ltle is alt wh – like, that there was an affair, that our fay is breakg up, that we’re gog through a divorce, that our fay is no longer. For a while she went to a high-school support group for children of divorced parents, but no one talked about gay parents and she was too nervo to brg up.
Some of her subjects have been raised om birth by gay or lbian parents, eher adopted or through artificial sematn, while others have e om backgrounds like Gabriela’s, where one parent has e out. “It was my first time talkg about , and this guy me up to me afterwards and said: ‘My ex-wife is gay, and we have two adult children, and I never realised what mt have been like for them.
HOW I ACCINTALLY FOUND OUT MY DAD IS GAY
The first time my dad tried to tell me he was gay, didn't go well.
What I gleaned om his ramblgs were that he believed that human sexualy was a ntuum and that if he hadn't been born and raised a relig fah that shunned homosexualy, he might have gravated more towards that si of the spectm. "Dad told me he's gay. He was gay.
MY DAD COMG OUT AS GAY CHANGED OUR LIV — AND GAVE ME THE COURAGE TO BE MYSELF
Not maybe gay some parallel universe.
My dad was gay now, our actual life. My dad was gay for real.
Although had never crossed my md that my dad might be gay, wasn't a total shock eher.
HOW A SON AND DGHTER RPOND TO A GAY DAD COMG OUT
This environment mouflaged my dad's te sexual inty, both om himself and the rt of dad was his early 40s when he realized he was gay.