Contents:
- MOM, I’M GAY. CAN MY FRIENDS SLEEP OVER?
- SHOULD I LET MY GAY DGHTER HAVE A SLEEPOVER WH A SAME-SEX IEND?
- ‘MY FIRST TIME TO GO ALL THE WAY’ - 3 XXX STORI OF GAY TEENS POPPG THEIR CHERRY
MOM, I’M GAY. CAN MY FRIENDS SLEEP OVER?
So when he told his fay he was gay, his father, Jeff Frnd, a prcipal at an arts mag middle school, asked himself, “Would I let his sister at that age have a sleepover wh a boy? “If they knew for sure my son was gay, I doubt they were gog to let them e over, ” he explaed. ”“I thk parents always want to make space for the stuff of childhood to happen, ” said Stacey Karpen Dohn, who works wh the fai of transgenr and genr expansive youths as senr manager of Behavral Health at Whman-Walker Health, a muny health center focg on lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr re Washgton, D.
Q: How do you remend handlg same-sex sleepovers when your 13-year-old dghter intifi as gay?
This isn’t a matter of “gay” or “straight” sleepovers. I am gog to gus that you didn’t grow up wh many exampl of how to parent gay youth; I know I certaly didn’t. Your young teen, gay or straight, still needs to know what valu are important your fay, and the rponsibily is on you to munite, s down wh yourself and/or your partner or spoe and take a beat.
SHOULD I LET MY GAY DGHTER HAVE A SLEEPOVER WH A SAME-SEX IEND?
” This issue isn’t about your dghter beg gay, per se; ’s about her matury and the appropriatens of thstg her to emotnal and physil suatns that she may not be ready for. I'll let parents on a ltle secret: gay tweens and teens exist.
As a queer adult, I n assure you that when I was intifyg as a female teenager, an all-girl sleepover ed both sweaty palms and anticipatn over the opportuny to get zy wh another girl sendg closeted gay kid vib. A mpg trip turns to a ral gay fantasy Yuma X's new mic vio, "Secret Lover. In a sea of nned cktails, Gay Water wants to stand out.
‘MY FIRST TIME TO GO ALL THE WAY’ - 3 XXX STORI OF GAY TEENS POPPG THEIR CHERRY
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