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Contents:
- WHEN DO GAY KIDS START “ACTG GAY”?
- COMG OUT AS GAY IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
- IS YOUR CHILD GAY?
- WHAT TO DO WHEN YOUR CHILD SAYS: "I'M GAY"
- GAY KIDS COMG OUT YOUNGER, BUT PARENTS ASK "HOW DO YOU KNOW?"
- "ALMOST LOOKS ILLEGAL": FAY DICK'S DADDY'S LTLE BOY GAY PORNOGRAPHY SERI AND ITS TOO-YOUNG LOOK
- TO BE YOUNG & GAY
WHEN DO GAY KIDS START “ACTG GAY”?
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COMG OUT AS GAY IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
6 reasons why “don’t say gay” bills are wrong. * young children gay *
When do gay kids start “actg gay”? A Mnota school district is facg a Department of Jtice vtigatn and a private lawsu over s alleged failure to bat antigay bullyg.
When do gay children start exhibg telltale signs? A hefty pile of rearch shows that boys as young as 3 years old who break om tradnal genr rol have a high likelihood of beg gay adults.
IS YOUR CHILD GAY?
Gay kids are g out earlier — sometim middle school — and many are fdg acceptance. But some parents and teachers wonr if the kids are too young to really know their sexual orientatn. * young children gay *
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WHAT TO DO WHEN YOUR CHILD SAYS: "I'M GAY"
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The subjects who strayed the most om nventnally boyish behavr were the most likely to be gay.
GAY KIDS COMG OUT YOUNGER, BUT PARENTS ASK "HOW DO YOU KNOW?"
There is no magil age at which children adopt stereotypilly gay behavr and keep to adulthood. Some mothers tell psychologists that they sensed their ltle boy was gay durg fancy.
Some rearchers thk genr nonnformg children e their toys to rehearse for a gay adulthood.
"ALMOST LOOKS ILLEGAL": FAY DICK'S DADDY'S LTLE BOY GAY PORNOGRAPHY SERI AND ITS TOO-YOUNG LOOK
Gay 3-year-old boys n’t verbalize their sire to be wh a man when they grow up—although many such children exhib cshlike behavr toward adult men—but they may be tryg to learn the behavr that will later attract a male partner. ”Dannielle Owens-Reid and Krist Rso, -founrs of Everyone Is Gay and -thors of This Is a Book for Parents of Gay Kids, attribute lower g-out ag to the power of reprentatn. The next generatn is growg up wh gay characters on their televisns, pansexual rappers on their playlists, and queer micro-muni on their Tumblr the change also means that there is a new generatn of fai scramblg to raise LGBT kids who have specific needs and challeng — kids who are growg up a society that, while creasgly LGBT-tolerant, is still plagued by hate crim, job discrimatn, and the more banal, everyday sort of homophobia borne by sual ignorance.
TO BE YOUNG & GAY
“Beg gay was somethg I never really qutned, ” said Chloe Charbonne, a 12-year-old om Stockbridge, Massachetts. ”Like Kate Ree, Chloe spent early childhood sred and nfed about cshg on girls, pecially after beg lled an anti-gay slur for the first time the fourth gra. “From then on, I pretend to like boys, bee I thought that [gay] was a wrong thg to be.