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

Contents:

• WHAT TO DO WHEN YOUR CHILD SAYS: "I'M GAY"
• 'RETURN THE KEY': THE PARENTS WHO REJECT THEIR GAY CHILDREN
• GAY QUOT
• "MOM, I'M GAY," REVISED AND EXPAND EDN QUOT
• THE ULTIMATE GUI FOR GAY DADS QUOT
• 35 QUOT ABOUT GAY PRI, PRO LGBT, HOMOPHOBIA AND MARRIAGE
• PARENTS OF GAY CHILDREN AND THE ISSU THEY FACE
• WHEN YOUR CHILD IS GAY

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

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“YOU DESERVE LOVEThis is for all of the kidsWho are feelg sredThis is for the quiet on Who never had someone say they redThis is for all of the timYou were forced to stay siThis is for the on of youWho have slowly diedWhether you’re gay or straightLove him or herYou serve to liveYou serve to loveWhether you found someoneOr have heard you’re wanted enoughKnow that you’re needKnow that you’re loved This is for all of kidsWho cry alone our bedsThis is for all the dark timWhen no light had been shed This is necsaryBee I feel you’re hurtNow’s a time to be happyAnd you have my support”. When parents learn that their child is gay, lbian, bisexual, or transgenr, they n experience a range of emotns.

'RETURN THE KEY': THE PARENTS WHO REJECT THEIR GAY CHILDREN

As a matter of fact, you might someday look back and fd that you are grateful for the experience of havg a gay or lbian child.

GAY QUOT

Well, my study of 65 fai of gay and lbian youth for the book, Comg Out, Comg Home: Helpg Fai Adjt to a Gay or Lbian Child, I found that some parents get to the pot where they believe that the experience of havg a gay child actually ma them a better person—more open-md and sensive to the needs of others, particularly those other mory groups.

If you jt found out your child is gay, lbian, bisexual, or transgenr, you may be thkg that such ias are prepostero.

The tstworthy nfidants let them vent but also rrected some of the misperceptns they absorbed om society, such as that gay people are lonely, unhappy, promiscuo, not fay-oriented, unable to have children, or sted for an unhappy life.

"MOM, I'M GAY," REVISED AND EXPAND EDN QUOT

Contact Parents, Fay, and Friends of Lbians and Gays (PFLAG).

THE ULTIMATE GUI FOR GAY DADS QUOT

List of Helpful Books for Parents of Gay and Lbian Children. Straight Parents Gay Children: Keepg Fai Together (revised edn).

35 QUOT ABOUT GAY PRI, PRO LGBT, HOMOPHOBIA AND MARRIAGE

Beyond Acceptance: Parents of Lbians, and Gays Talk About Their Experienc.

Somethg to Tell You: The Road Fai Travel when a Child is Gay. Comg Out, Comg Home: Helpg Fai Adjt to a Gay or Lbian Child.

Fortunate Fai: Catholic fai wh lbian dghters and gay sons. Mom, Dad, I'm Gay: How Fai Negotiate Comg Out. That’s how I feel’The armageddon refers to his mum’s strong Jehovah’s Wns beliefs about the sfulns of homosexualy.

PARENTS OF GAY CHILDREN AND THE ISSU THEY FACE

’”Chris, sadly, isn’t alone his story of parental fa of equalyAt the time I terviewed him, a Brazilian mother who killed her teenage son for beg gay is sentenced to 25 years prison. Celebry stori of heartbreakg parental rejectn are also November, the Amerin thor and producer Robyn Crawford released a book nfirmg she had had a romantic relatnship wh Whney Hoton – but had to abandon out of fear of the repercsns om Hoton’s by Oprah Wey if would have bothered her if her dghter was gay, Cissy Hoton said “Absolutely.

“She even worked Brisbane’s gay bar, ” Chris says. "Mom, I'm Gay, " Revised and Expand Edn Quot by San Cottrell. "Mom, I'm Gay, " Revised and Expand Edn Quot.

WHEN YOUR CHILD IS GAY

"Mom, I'm Gay, " Revised and Expand Edn: Lovg Your Lgbtq Child and Strengtheng Your Fah.