When I found out I had a gay dad, pletely up-end my life.
Contents:
- HOW I ACCINTALLY FOUND OUT MY DAD IS GAY
- MY LIFE CHANGED FOREVER THE DAY I FOUND OUT MY FATHER WAS GAY
- IM GAY AND IM ATTRACTED TO MY FATHER..
- MY DAD COMG OUT AS GAY CHANGED OUR LIV — AND GAVE ME THE COURAGE TO BE MYSELF
- THE GAY FATHER I NEVER KNEW
- I'M 57 YEARS OLD AND MY FATHER JT DISOWNED ME FOR BEG GAY
HOW I ACCINTALLY FOUND OUT MY DAD IS GAY
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MY LIFE CHANGED FOREVER THE DAY I FOUND OUT MY FATHER WAS GAY
My brother picked up the word for "gay" – a word my dad repeated several tim durg that that pot, my parents had told they had problems their marriage, but a few months later, when I was around ne years old, we still went on our annual fay summer holiday to France.
Until, out of nowhere, my brother sudnly asked, "Dad, are you gay? "There aren't a lot of gay people out there wh a wife and children, " he told me. I once tagged along wh him to his favoure gay bar, where I met all the iends he's ma there over the years.
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IM GAY AND IM ATTRACTED TO MY FATHER..
"Your dad is gay! "Heather said Dad is gay.
MY DAD COMG OUT AS GAY CHANGED OUR LIV — AND GAVE ME THE COURAGE TO BE MYSELF
I remember wonrg how my dad uld have done this to me, and — more importantly — what was I gog to tell my iends about my gay dad?
THE GAY FATHER I NEVER KNEW
It was the '70s and there weren't ol TV characters wh two gay dads like Rachel Barry on Glee. Even though I grew up New York Cy surround by artists (my mother was an opera sger and my dad a ncert pianist) and knew people who were gay, I had already absorbed the msage that was not OK. At the time, homosexualy was still nsired a disease and was classified as a mental disorr the Diagnostic and Statistil Manual of Mental Disorrs.
I loved some of the gay men I'd met through my parents, but those men weren't my father. After he divorced my mother and me out of the closet, he ma a public display of his gayns, wearg asts and p and even announcg one night while wearg a purse, "This is the new me!
I'M 57 YEARS OLD AND MY FATHER JT DISOWNED ME FOR BEG GAY
"RELATED: The Inter Stans This Mom's Unyieldg Support For Her Son Who Came Out As GayInstead of acceptg him, I got good at lyg.
When we found The Joy Of Gay Sex on their bookshelf, I lghed and vented some story about the man he shared the hoe wh (why they also shared a bedroom was a ltle more difficult to expla). Though he had been diagnosed wh manic-prsn, I believe that his stggle to fd acceptance as a gay man ntributed to his sufferg, and ultimately, his suici. Then, my twenti, I met John who happened to be a gay pianist who also shared my dad's birthday.