Comg out to your parents n be a very difficult nversatn. You might be feelg nervo, sad, or even aaid to tell your parents that you are gay. You n have this talk if you prepare for properly and then iate a uful...
Contents:
- HOW TO TELL YOUR PARENTS YOU ARE GAY
- HOW I ACCINTALLY FOUND OUT MY DAD IS GAY
- IM GAY AND IM ATTRACTED TO MY FATHER..
- MOM DAD I’M GAY
- AM I GAY? QUIZ – 100% RELIABLE TT
- IS YOUR DAD GAY—OR ARE YOU A GAY DAD?
- THE GAY FATHER I NEVER KNEW
HOW TO TELL YOUR PARENTS YOU ARE GAY
* dad im gay *
You might be feelg nervo, sad, or even aaid to tell your parents that you are gay.
Have your parents exprsed negative views about gay people the past? Be sure to be selective about the environment which you tell your parents that you’re gay. Avoid beg alone wh them when you tell them if they are homophobic or vlent.
I’m gay. Your parents will likely have an entire range of qutns to ask you, pecially if they did not spect that you were gay before now. Some might experience nial, but you should reaffirm to them that you are gay, and tell them ’s not their flt and you don’t need unselg, if they suggt that.
HOW I ACCINTALLY FOUND OUT MY DAD IS GAY
Your parents may not know many, if any, gay people and may be stgglg wh this news. Collect some pamphlets or articl for parents of gay children and give them to them to look over.
Fd out if there is an anizatn or lol group for parents and fai of gay children, like PFLAG, the area. If you grew up a home wh homophobic parents, know that their reactn might not be ial. You may have never heard them even make a homophobic ment.
IM GAY AND IM ATTRACTED TO MY FATHER..
If you thk they will be nfed, you might want to be prepared to talk to them about when you first thought that you might be gay. If you are pletely fancially pennt on your fay and you know that they are homophobic, is likely unwise to e out at this time.
3Evaluate their views on gay people. If you regularly heard your parents make disparagg or problematic ments about gay people when you are growg up, know that you will likely not receive a posive reactn when you e out to them.
MOM DAD I’M GAY
Article SummaryXTellg your parents that you’re gay n be really difficult, pecially if you’re not sure how they’ll react. 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?
"There aren't a lot of gay people out there wh a wife and children, " he told me. I once tagged along wh him to his favoure gay bar, where I met all the iends he's ma there over the years. Im gay and Im attracted to my father..
AM I GAY? QUIZ – 100% RELIABLE TT
At the age of 18 I talked to my parents and olr brother about me beg gay and they all pletely accepted me whout hsatn. Then, I have hardly ever bond wh him any way, he ma some effort to aproach me and learn more about me and my gay life, but he is still the same person who ( my opn) didn't give a damn about me when I was a child. Y, the lack of a fatherly figure durg early teen years might be the culpr, I believe that thats what turned me gay anyway..
Re: Im gay and Im attracted to my father.. Do you know for a fact than your father is homosexual or bisexual? That's when their olst son, Jim, me home om llege wh the news that he was gay.
"It was his way of articulatg how he felt as a young gay man, " says his mother. She uldn't even say the words "gay" or "homosexual" when she fally got up the urage to ll a lol Catholic prit whom Jim already had nfid. They had no klg Jim was gay and no ia how to al wh homosexualy wh the ntext of their fah.
IS YOUR DAD GAY—OR ARE YOU A GAY DAD?
It was three years before the Lopatas told anybody else that Jim was gay, even their clost iends. She and her hband first found their way to a secular group lled Parents, Fai, and Friends of Lbians and Gays (PFLAG) where they received support om other parents of homosexuals, along wh ndolenc om those who nsired the Catholic Church to be tolerant and homophobic.
THE GAY FATHER I NEVER KNEW
Last year Mary Ellen Lopata wrote a book about her experienc as a Catholic parent of a gay child. In Fortunate Fai: Catholic Fai Wh Lbian Dghters and Gay Sons (Trafford), she scrib the lack of accurate rmatn and sound pastoral rourc for parents and fai of gay and lbian Catholics 20 years ago. Today the Lopatas are among a ntgent of Catholic parents natnwi who have tablished mistri, provid rourc, and sought to make the church more welg to gays and lbians.
Catholic bishops 1996 wh the release of Always Our Children: A Pastoral Msage to the Parents of Homosexual Children and Suggtns for Pastoral Mistri.
In the document, the bishops acknowledged the stggl of Catholic parents of homosexuals: their relief, anger, mourng, fear, guilt, shame, lonels, and sire to be protective of their children. The bishops urged parents not to reject gay and lbian children and enuraged church misters to be available to parents and to wele homosexual Catholics to the fah muny.