What to Do When Your Child Says: "I'm Gay" | Psychology Today

Contents:

• GAY TEENS ON TV: A TIMELE
• HOW ONE GAY TEEN AND HIS STRAIGHT BT FRIEND HAD THE BT PROM EVER
• MORE U.S. TEENS INTIFYG AS GAY, LBIAN, BISEXUAL, STUDY SAYS
• LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, AND QUEER (LGBTQ) TEENS
• WHAT TO DO WHEN YOUR CHILD SAYS: "I'M GAY"
• IS YOUR CHILD GAY?

GAY TEENS ON TV: A TIMELE

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HOW ONE GAY TEEN AND HIS STRAIGHT BT FRIEND HAD THE BT PROM EVER

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.

MORE U.S. TEENS INTIFYG AS GAY, LBIAN, BISEXUAL, STUDY SAYS

Havg feelgs about or havg a sexual experience wh a person of the same sex do not necsarily mean you are homosexual. The phrase “ the closet” may be ed to refer to someone who is gay, lbian, or bisexual, but hasn’t told iends and fay members yet. As the only out young gay kid at my school, I took the advancement of my sexual experienc to my own hands and I did what we all do: I bought a fake ID and h the gay clubs.

LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, AND QUEER (LGBTQ) TEENS

While I knew wouldn’t be like a gay llege eroti I’d read on (gay non, really), I rather naively wasn’t expectg the fall out. I realize I fell to that old gay adage of placg my feelgs on a person who, for whatever reason, was never gog to vt them back me. Worst of all, though, the shame attached to the memori of those first tim marred how I would approach sex for was listeng to Years & Years’ new song “Sanctify, ” and seeg the band’s out gay sger Olly Alexanr talk about how the song was spired his sexual trysts wh straight men, that I realized that the feelgs are way more mon than people let on.

WHAT TO DO WHEN YOUR CHILD SAYS: "I'M GAY"

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It jt go to show that there is a market for a well-produced prt magaze showsg fe art photography by queer and gay photographers that is not jt a dick magaze! Mostly gay teens are predomantly attracted to people of the same sex, but they may ocsnally feel sexual attractn to or have sexual experienc wh people of the oppose sex. In fact, 48 percent of gay and bisexual llege stunts say they knew their sexual orientatn high school, acrdg to rearchers om the Sexualy Informatn and Edutn Council of the Uned Stat.

IS YOUR CHILD GAY?

Heterosexualy and homosexualy are at oppose ends of the spectm, but other sexual orientatns exist, such as bisexual, pansexual, mostly heterosexual, mostly homosexual, or children know their sexual inty when they’re prchool.