I'm 43 – but I'm ma to feel like a dosr by younger gay men | Metro News

Contents:

• GAY KIDS COMG OUT YOUNGER, BUT PARENTS ASK "HOW DO YOU KNOW?"
• ORANGTUA, WASPADALAH S GAY KIDS, INI BAHAYANYA!
• I’M 43 – BUT I’M MA TO FEEL LIKE A DOSR BY YOUNGER GAY MEN
• 15 CELEBS YOU DIDN'T KNOW HAVE GAY KIDS
• 10 TIPS FOR PARENTS OF GAY KIDS
• MORN DOS AND DON'TS FOR PARENTS OF GAY KIDS G OUT
• WHAT'S LIFE LIKE FOR GAY KIDS IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS?

GAY KIDS COMG OUT YOUNGER, BUT PARENTS ASK "HOW DO YOU KNOW?"

In honor of June’s LGBTQ Pri month, here are 28 photos of kids at Pri Naharro Gimenez via Getty ImagA child wh her father tak part the Gay Pri para Madrid on July 5, 2014 Madrid, Spa. (Photo by Jemal Counts/Getty Imag)JOSE CABEZAS via Getty ImagA young girl s durg a Gay Pri para along Roosevelt Avenue San Salvador on June 29, 2013. AFP PHOTO/Jose CABEZASMichael Nagle via Getty ImagA girl high fiv a reveler as she march the New York Cy Gay Pri march on June 24, 2012 New York Cy.

ORANGTUA, WASPADALAH S GAY KIDS, INI BAHAYANYA!

The annual civil rights monstratn memorat the Stonewall rts of 1969, which epted after a police raid on a gay bar, the Stonewall Inn on Christopher Street. (Photo by Michael Nagle/Getty Imag)Dondi Tawatao via Getty ImagA boy plays unr a rabow flag durg the Manila Gay Pri march on December 8, 2012 Makati, Philipp. AFP PHOTO / YASUYOSHI CHIBAALEJANDRO PAGNI via Getty ImagA girl holds a rabow flag of the LGBT movement durg the XXI Gay Pri para at Mayo Square Buenos Air on November 10, 2012.

(Photo by Roberto Machado Noa/LightRocket via Getty Imag)TIZIANA FABI via Getty ImagA young girl sportg rabow lours tak part the annual Gay Pri para Rome on June 7, 2014. (Photo by Roberto Machado Noa/LightRocket via Getty Imag)Pacific Prs via Getty ImagA Filipo woman ss on a rabow flag wh her child durg a Gay Pri event Quezon Cy, east of Manila, Philipp, 2015.

I’M 43 – BUT I’M MA TO FEEL LIKE A DOSR BY YOUNGER GAY MEN

Hundreds of Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr (LGBT) advot and supporters gathered the event to show their prence and to mand LGBT rights.

Thoands of LBGTQ members marched along Manila's ma thoroughfare as they celebrate Manila's 21st Gay Pri Para 2015. AFP PHOTO/Nicholas KAMMMail Today via Getty ImagA child looks on durg a Gay Pri para New Delhi on November 28, 2010. (Photo by Rick Friedman/Corbis via Getty Imag)FRANCISCO LEONG via Getty ImagA mother and child play unr a giant rabow flag durg the Gay Pri para downtown Lisbon on June 24, 2006.

15 CELEBS YOU DIDN'T KNOW HAVE GAY KIDS

(Photo by Tabatha Fireman/Getty Imag)JACK GUEZ via Getty ImagAn Israeli girl ss on a relative's shoulrs wavg the rabow flag, the ternatnal symbol of gay pri, durg the annual Gay Pri para along the streets of Tel Aviv on June 6, 2008. (Photo by Gee Panagakis/Pacific Prs/LightRocket via Getty Imag)NurPhoto via Getty ImagKids are rried over the shoulrs of their parents durg the Annual Gay Pri para Tel Aviv on June 12, 2015. (Photo by Gili Yaari/NurPhoto)Nazrie Abu Seman via Getty ImagA man wh a girl on his shoulrs walkg through the street at a Dubl Gay Pri para June 2015.

NurPhoto via Getty ImagA child plays unr a giant rabow flag, a symbol of the gay rights movement, as she tak part the 22nd annual Gay Pri para Rome, Italy, on June 11, 2016.

10 TIPS FOR PARENTS OF GAY KIDS

- The world's first fe art photography magaze dited to queer and gay 2 - the Pri Issue featur ten photographers om ne untri: AY (UK), David Charl Colls (Atralia), Matthew Fley (USA), Ashish Gupta (India), Manuel Monyo (Mexi), Juan Anton Papagni Me (Argenta), Sebastian Perotti (Argenta), Mric A.

It now reprents more than 67 photographers om 27 untri - cludg Cha, India, Iran, Poland, Rsia and Turkey where gay rights are reprsed and queer liv unr nstant have been onle and physil exhibns, and two sold out BOYS! Said:"Dpe the panmic we managed to lnch a new pennt magaze dited to queer and gay photography.

MORN DOS AND DON'TS FOR PARENTS OF GAY KIDS G OUT

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! Gay kids are g out earlier — sometim middle school — and many are fdg acceptance. Denizet-Lewis wr that when he started workg for the gay men's magaze XY 1998, "we received dozens of letters each week om teenagers the pths of spair.

" Three years later, he says, "a new kd of gay adolcent was appearg on the page - proud, rilient, sometim even happy. " He explas, That's not to say that gay teenagers didn't still suffer harassment at school or rejectn at home, but many seemed ls burned wh shame and self-loathg than their olr gay peers. Not only were there creasgly accurate and posive portrayals of gays and lbians popular culture, but most teenagers were by then regular Inter ers.

WHAT'S LIFE LIKE FOR GAY KIDS IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS?

Gog onle broke through the isolatn that had been a hallmark of beg young and gay, and allowed gay teenagers to fd rmatn to refute what their fai or church sometim still told them - namely, that they would never fd happs and to the Inter and to creasg cultural acceptance of homosexualy (an crease marred, we should note, by measur like Proposn 8), kids who might once have waed until high school or even llege to e out are now dog so earlier. At least 120 middle schools the untry have gay-straight alliance groups, and others let stunts observe the natnal Day of Silence prott agast anti-gay harassment. " They were not, however, silent: "Good luck gettg middle-schoolers not to talk, " the school unselor youth of the Webster kids and other gay middle-schoolers is a sign of how far gay rights have e — but 's also the kids' biggt obstacle to acceptance.