How One Dad Helped His Gay Teen Son Come Out

Contents:

• SHOULD I LET MY (MAYBE) GAY TEENAGE SON HAVE SLEEPOVERS WH BOYS?
• THE HEARTBREAKG TE STORY OF THE GAY TEEN AND HIS DAD BEHD ‘JOE BELL’
• HOW ONE DAD HELPED HIS GAY TEEN SON COME OUT
• MY SON MIGHT BE GAY. WHAT SHOULD I SAY TO HIM?

SHOULD I LET MY (MAYBE) GAY TEENAGE SON HAVE SLEEPOVERS WH BOYS?

Over the past year, however, I have bee creasgly nvced that he is gay. I’ve found gay porn on his laptop (y, I snoop; I pay the bill and I’m his dad), he’s shown ZERO tert girls, and he has always been a tad effemate, though I know that’s probably an unfair stereotype.

THE HEARTBREAKG TE STORY OF THE GAY TEEN AND HIS DAD BEHD ‘JOE BELL’

I have no problem wh gay people and I support full equaly for same-sex upl. And tly, if my son is gay, while I won’t pretend ’d be no big al and not require a b of mental adjtment, I’d love him and support him fully.

But if my son were gay, I would have a different, stricter set of l regardg male iends. And if he’s not gay, I worry I uld serly damage our relatnship and hurt his pri by suggtg he is.

HOW ONE DAD HELPED HIS GAY TEEN SON COME OUT

“Instead of a direct nontatn—are you gay or what? —DUD uld make gay issu a part of the day’s general nversatn. For stance, if a not-yet-out gay kid is crisis, or if a parent stumbl over evince that a not-yet-out gay kid is dog somethg risky, a parent n and should go the “are you gay or what?

MY SON MIGHT BE GAY. WHAT SHOULD I SAY TO HIM?

In your se, DUD, you already know your son is gay—“Browsers don’t lie, ” says Schwartz—and the fact that your son might be havg sex his room, thereby breakg dad’s hoe l, may rise to the level of “are you gay or what? “If he’d tell a hetero boy to keep his door open, a gay boy should get the same msage, ” says Schwartz.

While a uple of gay boys n get to trouble, DUD, and while sexually transmted fectns are a ncern, Gomer isn’t gog to knock up your son.