What to Do When Your Child Says: "I'm Gay" | Psychology Today

Contents:

• BY PHILIPPS REVEALS HER 12-YEAR-OLD CHILD IS GAY AND US THEY/THEM PRONOUNS
• 12-YEAR-OLD BOY ON ‘THE CONNERS:’ 'I'M GLAD I'M GAY!'
• COMG OUT AS GAY IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
• WHAT TO DO WHEN YOUR CHILD SAYS: "I'M GAY"
• HOW TO TELL IF YOUR SON IS GAY
• BOY ABANDONED BY FRIENDS FOR BEG GAY GETS HUGE SURPRISE PARTY
• GAY TENN. 12-YEAR-OLD STILL FIGHTG THE ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL HE HELPED KILL

BY PHILIPPS REVEALS HER 12-YEAR-OLD CHILD IS GAY AND US THEY/THEM PRONOUNS

By Philipps revealed that her 12-year-old child, Birdie, is gay and they/them spoke about her elst child on her podst, By Philipps Is Dog Her Philipps ador her children.

“For those of you who are my iends listeng at home, this is the first you’re hearg that Birdie is gay and out, ” she said on the podst episo.

You n talk about that I’m gay and out. “You serly have a problem wh people beg gay? “So you’re homophobic?

12-YEAR-OLD BOY ON ‘THE CONNERS:’ 'I'M GLAD I'M GAY!'

“So you jt blatantly adm to beg homophobic? “She’s gay and you blatantly said you don’t support gay people, ” he ntu, drivg his pot home.

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COMG OUT AS GAY IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

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WHAT TO DO WHEN YOUR CHILD SAYS: "I'M GAY"

* 20% of self-intified gay and bisexual men knew that they were gay or bisexual junr high school, and 17% said they knew gra school. * 6% of self-intified gay or bisexual women knew that they were gay or bisexual junr high school, and 11% knew gra school. ABC’s The Conners has left hts here and there that Darlene’s (Sara Gilbert) 12-year-old son Mark (Am McNamara) might be gay and om the start of Tuday night’s episo, “A Kiss is Jt a Kiss, ” Mark is seen wearg a skirt over legggs.

But ’s when the prcipal lls to rm Darlene that Mark is trouble for kissg a boy at school that we fd out there is no longer any doubt that the young boy is gay. He only told me he was gay last week. Your kid's not gonna tch beg gay any more than he's gonna tch beg a cranky, old wench like you.

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HOW TO TELL IF YOUR SON IS GAY

They never portray people of Christian fah, for example, who believe homosexualy is a s, but are still kd and lovg to all. Mark: My life would be so much easier if I wasn't gay.

I'm glad I'm gay! But Hollywood is really phg the homosexual angle on children lately. Last fall ABC had pre-teens e out as gay on This Is Us and A Milln Ltle Thgs.

”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.

BOY ABANDONED BY FRIENDS FOR BEG GAY GETS HUGE SURPRISE PARTY

“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. They first intified as gay, then, a few months later, also began intifyg as genrls (as a rult, Chloe now prefers “they” and “them” pronouns). Amelia, a Midwtern mother of a 10-year-old boy who first began intifyg as gay when he was 7, said that her son’s unabashed outns tends to startle many adults who would rather not thk about children havg sexual sir.

“When they thk of gay people, they thk of sexually active people, ” she said. ”Amelia, through her blog and teractns wh the adults her gay son’s life, tri to battle this stigma. “As a society, if we n open up our ia to what gay means, we n be a lot ls unfortable wh the ia of children intifyg, ” she said.

GAY TENN. 12-YEAR-OLD STILL FIGHTG THE ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL HE HELPED KILL

“Maybe he’s not really gay, ” adults have said to Amelia about her hears all the time too. “Before this current generatn of kids, children weren’t raised wh gay people, ” Amelia said. “They weren’t raised knowg what gay was.

A lot of gay adults say, ‘I knew I was gay when I was krgarten, but I didn’t have the vobulary to scribe what I was.