I’m a boy of 13 and I thk I’m gay but I haven’t told anyone. What books n I read? | Children's books | The Guardian

Contents:

• MY HBAND IS GAY BUT WE’RE MARRIED WH TWO KIDS AND HAVE GREAT SEX
• I WAS MARRIED WH 2 KIDS WHEN I REALIZED I’M GAY
• OPN I’M GAY. AND I WANT MY KID TO BE GAY, TOO.
• “MOM, DAD… I’M GAY.” A CHRISTIAN PARENT’S RPONSE
• I AM GAY BUT I AM MARRIED TO A WOMAN AND WH KIDS
• FOR GAY MEN, HAVG A BLOGIL CHILD N BE PLITED
• GAY UPL 'ULD HAVE THEIR OWN BLOGIL CHILDREN RRYG TRAS OM BOTH PARENTS'
• PARENTS OF GAY CHILDREN AND THE ISSU THEY FACE
• LETTERS TO THE EDOR: I’M GAY AND DON’T WANT TO PATRONIZE BIGOTS. THANKS, SUPREME COURT
• I’M A BOY OF 13 AND I THK I’M GAY BUT I HAVEN’T TOLD ANYONE. WHAT BOOKS N I READ?
• AS A GAY MAN I'M OFTEN TOLD I DON'T SERVE TO HAVE CHILDREN OF MY OWN. I ABSOLUTELY DISAGREE, AND HERE'S WHY.
• 'ACCEPT' AND 'TOLERATE' MY GAY KID? THAT'S NOT GOOD ENOUGH
• ‘MY PARENTS STILL WON’T ACCEPT THAT I’M GAY!’
• MANY PARENTS STGGLE TO ADJT AFTER LEARNG CHILD IS GAY, STUDY FDS

MY HBAND IS GAY BUT WE’RE MARRIED WH TWO KIDS AND HAVE GREAT SEX

A woman has revealed how she’s married to a gay man and the pair have two young kids together. The mom-of-two scrib herself as straight while her hband Matthew intifi as gay or pansexual, admtg he is “more attracted to men than women”. Brynn met Matthew for the first time at church early 2016 and jt a few dat , he revealed he was gay.

Matthew had known he was attracted to men sce he was a teenager, but he belonged to the Church which do not enurage homosexual relatnships. The mom-of-two, who liv Ypsilanti, Michigan said: “He looked straight at me and said ‘Brynn, I’m gay.

I WAS MARRIED WH 2 KIDS WHEN I REALIZED I’M GAY

“I’ve heard gay men say that they n’t even image tryg to be sexual wh a woman, and I have never felt that way.

The mom-of-two scrib herself as straight while her hband Matthew intifi as gay or pansexual, admtg he is “more attracted to men than women.

OPN I’M GAY. AND I WANT MY KID TO BE GAY, TOO.

While Brynn is a straight woman, Matthew’s sexualy isn’t lear and he has intified as gay, pansexual and bisexual. I kept wag for the moment where I would realize I was no longer gay so I uld put a halt to everythg.

“MOM, DAD… I’M GAY.” A CHRISTIAN PARENT’S RPONSE

I was nsumed by the p my stomach – the shame of endg my marriage bee I was gay was like luggg a sandbag over my shoulrs and havg a rock my stomach at the same time. I wasn’t sure how to tell my nservative, Geia-born and bred parents that their former pageant queen dghter was endg her marriage bee she is gay.

I wasn’t brave enough to actually say the words – the label of beg gay or a lbian was too much for my soul to bear at the time – so I sent her a text msage, “I am not straight.

Democratic printial ndidate Pete Buttigieg – who, like me, is his late 30s and, like me, me out publicly jt a few years ago – put this way: “It’s hard to face the tth that there were tim my life when, if you had shown me exactly what was si me that ma me gay, I would have cut out wh a knife.

I AM GAY BUT I AM MARRIED TO A WOMAN AND WH KIDS

I thk you’d be hard-prsed to fd a gay person over the age of 30 who hasn’t felt this way.

FOR GAY MEN, HAVG A BLOGIL CHILD N BE PLITED

I mean, our neighborhood is crawlg wh gay and lbian upl, yet only one other uple bis ourselv are raisg children. So much for the “gay-by boom” that some were expectg the wake of visibily and marriage equaly.

Though the numbers of gay men, bi people, and (more so) lbians raisg children has climbed recent years, ntu to lag well behd the rat for straight upl. For this month’s lumn, I spoke to a number of gay men and lbians whose liv don’t clu raisg children.

GAY UPL 'ULD HAVE THEIR OWN BLOGIL CHILDREN RRYG TRAS OM BOTH PARENTS'

Corvo’s early regnn that he didn’t f wh standard-issue heterosexualy led him first to the prithood and then to a full embrace of his gay inty. Dpe beg young enough to have imaged a “gay life” for themselv, their inty ow somethg to an olr, perhaps ls-upled ia of gay.

And while they’ve got several gay and lbian iends and neighbors wh kids, neher has the least tert parentg. A 30-year-old sgle man, whom I’ll ll Charl, se his inty as a gay man as an vatn to thk crilly about how he’d like to bee a parent.

PARENTS OF GAY CHILDREN AND THE ISSU THEY FACE

The son of Haian immigrants, Charl was lucky enough to be raised by parents who sensed their son’s gay inty when he was young, and they’ve been supportive of him om the start—perhaps bee of that, no possible route seems to him out of the qutn. And I want my kid to be gay, of my straight iends, even the most liberal, see this logic as warped.

LETTERS TO THE EDOR: I’M GAY AND DON’T WANT TO PATRONIZE BIGOTS. THANKS, SUPREME COURT

But was impossible to know whether he meant to sulate me om the world’s bias or implicly ratnalize his ia that no one would choose to be gay is wily held — even the gay rights movement.

In the early '90s, partly as a rponse to the stctive notn that gay people uld be changed, activists prsed the ia of sexualy as a fixed, nate state. The ia that folks are "born gay" beme not only the theme of a Lady Gaga song, but the implic ratnale for gay rights. When the gay liberatn activist Frankl Kameny lnched a simple effort 1968 to proclaim that “gay is good, ” was bee, at the time, very much wasn’t.

I’M A BOY OF 13 AND I THK I’M GAY BUT I HAVEN’T TOLD ANYONE. WHAT BOOKS N I READ?

Until 1973, the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn nsired homosexualy a form of mental illns.

AS A GAY MAN I'M OFTEN TOLD I DON'T SERVE TO HAVE CHILDREN OF MY OWN. I ABSOLUTELY DISAGREE, AND HERE'S WHY.

It’s more wily acceptable to be gay Ameri today, but that’s not the same as beg sirable. In my hoe, though, you might expect me to say somethg about how, if my dghter were gay, she would undoubtedly face challeng and hurdl she wouldn’t enunter if she were straight.

'ACCEPT' AND 'TOLERATE' MY GAY KID? THAT'S NOT GOOD ENOUGH

But if my dghter wants to be an artist, I’ll enurage her all the way — and work to stroy any barriers along her path, not put them up, I’ve never for a sgle send regretted beg gay, nor saw as anythg other than an asset and a gift. By the time my dghter of age, she’ll have even more of a support work, cludg two moms, for cryg out than that, though, beg gay opened my ey to the world around me.

‘MY PARENTS STILL WON’T ACCEPT THAT I’M GAY!’

Learng that not every gay person had as good as I did helped me realize that a lot of people general didn’t have as good as I did. I wouldn’t be a polilly engaged human beg, let alone an activist, wrer and TV personaly, if I weren’t my dghter is gay, I don’t worry about her havg a hard life.

MANY PARENTS STGGLE TO ADJT AFTER LEARNG CHILD IS GAY, STUDY FDS

The problem is not the ia that homosexualy uld be a choice but the ia that heterosexualy should be pulsory. We’ve bought every picture book featurg gay fai, even the not-very-good on, and we have most of the nontradnal-genr-role books as well — about the prcs who lik to fight dragons and the boy who lik to wear my dghter plays hoe wh her stuffed koala bears as the mom and dad, we gently remd her that they uld be a dad and dad. It’s her I ultimately re about is that she has the choice and that whatever choice she mak is enthiastilly embraced and will tell, but so far, don’t look like my 6-year-old dghter is gay.

Correctn: An earlier versn of this article rrectly stated that the Amerin Psychologil Associatn classified homosexualy as a form of mental illns until 1973.