Diplomatic tensn reportedly risg between Uned Stat and Jamai over gay Amerin diplomat

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• MOM, I’M GAY. CAN MY FRIENDS SLEEP OVER?
• I THOUGHT I COULD SERVE AS AN OPENLY GAY MAN THE ARMY. THEN CAME THE DEATH THREATS.
• DIPLOMATIC TENSN REPORTEDLY RISG BETWEEN UNED STAT AND JAMAI OVER GAY AMERIN DIPLOMAT
• MOM, I’M GAY. CAN MY FRIENDS SLEEP OVER?

MOM, I’M GAY. CAN MY FRIENDS SLEEP OVER?

We are both gay men and have traveled many tim together over the years wh few problems and a hell of a lot of fun.

Like many gay men, our platonic iendship began wh a roll the hay. So when he told his fay he was gay, his father, Jeff Frnd, a prcipal at an arts mag middle school, asked himself, “Would I let his sister at that age have a sleepover wh a boy? “If they knew for sure my son was gay, I doubt they were gog to let them e over, ” he explaed.

”“I thk parents always want to make space for the stuff of childhood to happen, ” said Stacey Karpen Dohn, who works wh the fai of transgenr and genr expansive youths as senr manager of Behavral Health at Whman-Walker Health, a muny health center focg on lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr re Washgton, D. They know we’re gay, and we live a state where same-sex marriage is legal, so we’re gettg prsure to settle down. I adm this is my first letter about homosexual, ctuo tws, but I’m gog to take you at your word that you two are happy and that I should supprs the imag that me to md of two sets of brothers who lived together and me to unseemly ends: the pack-rat Collyer brothers and the tw gynelogist Marc brothers.

I THOUGHT I COULD SERVE AS AN OPENLY GAY MAN THE ARMY. THEN CAME THE DEATH THREATS.

Adam* said was dangero to e out as gay his home untry and feared beg forced to an arranged marriage wh a woman.He said he was "so lucky" to wed his soulmate, Ray, Manchter and wish everyone uld marry who they love. There are more than 60 untri wh laws that crimalise same-sex sexual acts acrdg to the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn, cludg Sdi Arabia.'Authentilly myself'Ray said he had also stggled growg up gay the 1970s and 80s England, which was "tough".He said his relig school "dmmed to you, 'you are gog to hell'".When Adam returned home to Sdi Arabia, spe beg more than 3,000 apart and later rtricted by the Covid-19 panmic, they kept touch daily and the romance blossomed.Three years ago, Ray proposed on a vio ll and after succsfully applyg for a UK fiancé visa, Adam moved to Manchter December 2022. Adam said he had been aaid to even wear lours his home untry so the first thg he did when he moved was start to "grow my mullet, got my ears pierced and booked appotments for tattoos".He relled how, ntrast, one of his gay iends Sdi had been forced to marry a woman, addg: "It has ed not only his life but the life of his wife."Danny Beard on Same Sex Love and MarriageDanny explor same-sex weddgs, fdg out why upl chose to get married, the challeng unrpng this cisn and what mak the wedd relatnships work.The uple said they now wanted to help people who were not as ee and strive for "equaly for everyone"."Now I'm here a safe place I want to fight for others to be able to marry who they want," Adam said."I'm so lucky but I want everyone else Sdi to marry the one they love whout facg discrimatn and persecutn." Image source, Fay photographImage ptn, Peter McGrah and David Cabreza say they are "very proud" to have been the first same-sex uple married EnglandMore than 40,000 same-sex marriag took place between 2014 and 2020, acrdg to the Office for Natnal StatisticsPeter McGrah and David Cabreza, origally om Stland and the US, ma history when they beme the first same-sex uple to marry England on 29 March 2014.The trailblazers married jt after midnight at Islgton Town Hall.

The uple, who live London, said a "really betiful memory" was on the way home when one of their sons shouted out of the black b wdow to Trafalgar Square, "My dads jt got married" and cheered "Yay, gay marriage"."It was so sweet seeg him so happy," Mr Cabreza said. And every time two male teenagers sleep the same bed, 's not bee they're gay - jt may be about a ep, unspoken need for a iend. While you might not see que the same way as here the statKeep md Many 14 year old boys are too by tryg to Unrstand why they get 200 random erectns a day They have no tert Girls or Boys and when they do Fally get any nerve up to "b agast another kid" Most arent gog to even try for fear of Gettg ridiculed and Ma out to be Gay...

DIPLOMATIC TENSN REPORTEDLY RISG BETWEEN UNED STAT AND JAMAI OVER GAY AMERIN DIPLOMAT

I didn't thk you were worried about what if some day if your son tells you he is gay. What I was sayg is that gay is not ntag, and evintly your social circle is aware of that too. ( other words, why is *he* not aware that someone might brand him gay, or that he might get an erectn and b agast his iend, or whatever) -- I have some thoughts on this.

MOM, I’M GAY. CAN MY FRIENDS SLEEP OVER?

If you would love a child who is gay, why is so not-OK to sleep wh a man that every child mt learn that there is somethg wrong wh ?

You might have been raised a macho culture where you have to pull away om your iends more and more as you get olr bee you might accintally touch, or be brand as gay, but that is not the culture where you are (and I don't remember a homophobic culture as beg a very helpful one for kids to grow up anyway). And my ncern about this has nothg to do wh any fear of him been gay at all.