Your Child Jt Told You He's Gay. Now What? | Psychology Today

Contents:

• IS MY SON GAY OR IS A PHASE?
• YOUR CHILD JT TOLD YOU HE'S GAY. NOW WHAT?
• HOW TO TELL IF YOUR SON IS GAY
• WHEN DO GAY KIDS START “ACTG GAY”?
• IS MY SON GAY? QUIZ
• "ALMOST LOOKS ILLEGAL": FAY DICK'S DADDY'S LTLE BOY GAY PORNOGRAPHY SERI AND ITS TOO-YOUNG LOOK
• A FATHER'S REACTN TO HIS VERY YOUNG GAY SON
• RAPPER BLUEFACE ACC HIS 6-YEAR-OLD SON OF BEG GAY BEE HE IGNORED WOMEN DANCG BIKIS
• HE WAS YOUNG, GAY, AND SOLD FOR SEX. HOW JOSE ALFARO ESPED A TRAFFICKG NIGHTMARE
• IS YOUR CHILD GAY?
• MY SON MIGHT BE GAY. WHAT SHOULD I SAY TO HIM?

IS MY SON GAY OR IS A PHASE?

My 17-year-old son and I got to a b of a heated argument this weekend and the midst of my son said he's gay. My hband says that he has always thought that our son is gay and that if he's gay, he's gay.

There are no other gays our fay as far as I know. It is highly unlikely that your son told you that he is gay simply to upset you.

YOUR CHILD JT TOLD YOU HE'S GAY. NOW WHAT?

Gay kids often tell their parents about their sexualy the middle of a fight bee they feel that they have nothg left to lose sce you are already upset wh them. It is probably more likely that he has known that he is gay for some time.

HOW TO TELL IF YOUR SON IS GAY

I suggt that you and your hband talk to your son durg a lm moment and ask him how he is pg wh beg a gay teen.

Also, please keep md that gay teens need the opportuny to talk to their parents about relatnship issu jt as straight kids do. The nversatn wh gay teens do not end after an acceptance of their sexual choic.

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.

WHEN DO GAY KIDS START “ACTG GAY”?

I had spected at tim that he was gay.

IS MY SON GAY? QUIZ

Had I asked him if he were gay when he was 13, he probably would have fensively said "No! San Berland, the mother of a gay son who ach parents of LGBTQ kids, utn, "It's not a good ia to ask. Acrdg to my -thor, psychiatrist Jonathan Tobk, "Gay children feel credibly vulnerable when g out to their parents, and tak time to work up the urage to do this.

Mol acceptance by not g gay slurs and never tellg gay jok. Watch gay-themed shows together such as "The Fosters" and "Will and Grace.

"ALMOST LOOKS ILLEGAL": FAY DICK'S DADDY'S LTLE BOY GAY PORNOGRAPHY SERI AND ITS TOO-YOUNG LOOK

" How do they pict gay people?

React kdly to gay people the news or on televisn.

A FATHER'S REACTN TO HIS VERY YOUNG GAY SON

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RAPPER BLUEFACE ACC HIS 6-YEAR-OLD SON OF BEG GAY BEE HE IGNORED WOMEN DANCG BIKIS

For straight parents, havg a child reveal that he is gay n be a jolt. You might ask how long he or she has known, and why he feels he is gay, bi, or trans, suggts Jonathan Tobk, M.

D., a psychiatrist private practice New York Cy and the -thor of When Your Child Is Gay: What You Need to Know. You n fd one through the Associatn of Gay and Lbian Psychiatrists. Take the extra step and show your child that you are terted beg the parent of a gay child.

HE WAS YOUNG, GAY, AND SOLD FOR SEX. HOW JOSE ALFARO ESPED A TRAFFICKG NIGHTMARE

Edute yourself on what means to be gay, lbian, bisexual or transgenr. PFLAG, or Parents for Lbians and Gays, which now has a group for transgenr youth, and holds natnwi chapters and meetgs;.

IS YOUR CHILD GAY?

There's a new Android app out (here's the English versn) lled "Is My Son Gay?

") that will tell you if, fact, your son is a gay person. So below I've provid a better list of ways to tell if your son is a gay person who is you e home om work and you hear nois upstairs and you go up to vtigate and your son's door is open and you tch him "hookg up" (as kids ll today) wh his iend Michael, and you quickly turn around and walk back downstairs and later that night over dner you say "You know, honey, if there's ever anythg you need to tell me...

MY SON MIGHT BE GAY. WHAT SHOULD I SAY TO HIM?

" and he says "Mom, I'm gay, " then your son is your son has recently gone to llege and hasn't been touch much and you figure hey he's new to llege, he's by makg iends and whatnot, and then late one night he lls you on the phone soundg upset about somethg and you ask him what's wrong and he's quiet for a while and then says "Nothg's wrong, really, I'm jt... Dad, I'm gay, " then your son is your son ever been on a long drive to one of your dghter's swim meets wh you and when stopped at a red light he's turned to you and said "Mom, I feel like I owe to you and dad to tell you that, well, Donald is my boyiend. I'm gay"?