Twenty-two years ago, I asked my dad if he was gay. Then he was gone.

Contents:

• HOW I ACCINTALLY FOUND OUT MY DAD IS GAY
• GROWG UP WH A GAY FATHER – CONFSNS OM A STRAIGHT SON
• GROWG UP WH A GAY FATHER – CONFSNS OM A STRAIGHT SON
• THE GAY FATHER I NEVER KNEW

HOW I ACCINTALLY FOUND OUT MY DAD IS GAY

In this example, you happened to see him naked a settg that n be sexually arog for a lot of gay man.

Jt as you didn’t choose to be gay and have the feelgs you have. Mula ngayon araw araw kang kakantut. Pagkakuha niya ng ticket kaagad niya ong ibigay sa guwardya.

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?

GROWG UP WH A GAY FATHER – CONFSNS OM A STRAIGHT SON

"There aren't a lot of gay people out there wh a wife and children, " he told me.

GROWG UP WH A GAY FATHER – CONFSNS OM A STRAIGHT SON

I once tagged along wh him to his favoure gay bar, where I met all the iends he's ma there over the years. But I knew he was gay by the time I was 7 or 8.

So this is my story of growg up wh a gay father.

Growg up wh a gay father, particularly one who was aaid to e out, prented challeng our abily to get emotnally close. I don’t rell a time when I didn’t know my Dad was gay.

THE GAY FATHER I NEVER KNEW

From my earlit memori of my Dad around age 5, I thk I always knew my dad was gay. Th I never had that aha moment of realizg “I have a gay father”! To hear both of them tell , my Dad beg gay wasn’t a factor the spl.

How my Dad me to terms wh beg gay. I don’t thk anyone knew yet that my Dad was gay.

After all, he was the son of a Baptist Preacher and there would not have been much tolerance the 1940’s or 50’s for him to e out as gay.