Fathers and gay sons: A plited, vally important relatnship.
Contents:
- 10 THGS YOU’LL ONLY KNOW IF YOU’VE GROWN UP WH GAY PARENTS
- I HATED GROWG UP WH GAY PARENTS
- GROWG UP WH A GAY FATHER – CONFSNS OM A STRAIGHT SON
- ‘A FAY LIKE OURS’: PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERHOOD
- KIDS OF GAY PARENTS FARE WORSE, STUDY FDS, BUT REARCH DRAWS FIRE OM EXPERTS
- GROWG UP WH GAY PARENTS: WHAT IS THE BIG AL?*
- GAY MEN AND THEIR FATHERS: HURT AND HEALG
- ‘I’M A HOMOPHOBE AND MY SON IS GAY’: DAD’S EMOTNAL REDD NFSN
- GAY PARENTS AS GOOD AS STRAIGHT ON
10 THGS YOU’LL ONLY KNOW IF YOU’VE GROWN UP WH GAY PARENTS
I’m the proud owner of five dads. Before you ask, this breaks down as: my blogil father; my stepdad (his partner, y, my dad’s gay); my other stepdad (my mum's... * growing up with gay dads reddit *
Like I said, I'm relatively young, and my md may change on whether or not I want kids, but I'm terted as of now, and I've been wonrg what 'd be like not only to raise a kid, but how kids that have grown up wh gay dads feel about .
I HATED GROWG UP WH GAY PARENTS
Growg up wh a gay father created challeng for both my Dad & I. His journey out of the Bible Belt & closet was not easy. Most importantly though . . . * growing up with gay dads reddit *
Super vulnerable post here, but I (24M) started spectg that my dad was gay when I was around 12 years old.
GROWG UP WH A GAY FATHER – CONFSNS OM A STRAIGHT SON
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It’s really trmatizg growg up wh a gay dad a relig anizatn that don’t value him. Before you ask, this breaks down as: my blogil father; my stepdad (his partner, y, my dad’s gay); my other stepdad (my mum’s partner); my father--law and my hband (the father of my two children).
But what you and everyone else wants to know is what is really like growg up wh gay parents? While I was open about my parents spltg up, I knew the real reason behd the break-up uldn’t be talked about; the part where my dad me out as gay.
I thk their parents were sred they’d tch the ‘gay bug’ off my dads or me (I might rry too! Sadly, there is a really difficult si to havg gay parents – homophobia – which isn’t down to your fay, ’s society’s flt.
‘A FAY LIKE OURS’: PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERHOOD
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If ’s not bad enough hearg people e ‘gay’ as a scribg word, there’s a really nasty dark si that I endured. I tried to protect my dad, and not tell him about what was happeng at first, until I received answer phone msag at home om the bulli g homophobic slurs.
KIDS OF GAY PARENTS FARE WORSE, STUDY FDS, BUT REARCH DRAWS FIRE OM EXPERTS
I felt guilty for puttg my parents through all, and I also hated myself for not pg – I wasn’t gay, so how uld I feel so cshed by homophobia? Throughout my late teens and early twenti, I attend Gay Pri events wh my dads, I mpaigned for LGBT issu and I ma a pot about beg wh my wonrful fay.
If anythg, even though I’m straight, havg gay parents ma me more fortable wh people the LGBTQ+ scene.
GROWG UP WH GAY PARENTS: WHAT IS THE BIG AL?*
LGBT is still a popular term ed to discs genr and sexual mori, but all GSRM are wele beyond lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr people who nsent to participate a safe space.
Growg up wh a gay father, particularly one who was aaid to e out, prented challeng our abily to get emotnally close.
GAY MEN AND THEIR FATHERS: HURT AND HEALG
From my earlit memori of my Dad around age 5, I thk I always knew my dad was gay.
To hear both of them tell , my Dad beg gay wasn’t a factor the spl.
‘I’M A HOMOPHOBE AND MY SON IS GAY’: DAD’S EMOTNAL REDD NFSN
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.
GAY PARENTS AS GOOD AS STRAIGHT ON
In talkg to both of them over the years, they both claim they had no ia my Dad was gay. In retrospect, the fact that he was a cheerlear his bt iend was a male hairdrser (who was openly gay) that my Uncle Buddy nicknamed him “Percy” (which my Dad hated) and that my Dad went on to open a home furnishgs store might have been a clue.