Photo by Earlier this month, a 38-year-old sgle dad borrowed his son’s iPad and me across his Google search history. “A lot of the search terms were along the l of ‘I’m gay, what now’,” wrote the dad on Redd, gog by the ername HeMeYou. Comments poured , like this clever one om Reddor atomicsiren: “Google ‘how to tell my son I will love and support him no matter what’ and leave his search history.” A few days later, the dad posted an update: “I started off wh talkg about general media wh him, for stance I mentned how awome was that Tim Cook (CEO of Apple) me out as beg gay and I asked him what he thought about and I was pletely expectg him to give a typil teenager rponse like “yeah.. s good” or somethg like that but he actually gave me a tailed rponse which I absolutely loved bee for the first time a good while I’ve actually held a nversatn wh my son that felt really… rewardg,” he wrote. STORY: What to Consir When Sharg Your Kids Onle The next day, after pickg his son up om school, the dad asked his son if he had any csh.
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?
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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. 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.
THE HEARTBREAKG TE STORY OF THE GAY TEEN AND HIS DAD BEHD ‘JOE BELL’
And if he’s not gay, I worry I uld serly damage our relatnship and hurt his pri by suggtg he is. “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? 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.
HOW ONE DAD HELPED HIS GAY TEEN SON COME OUT
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. There aren’t many perks to beg a closeted gay teenager—a few sleepovers that the straight kids uldn’t get away wh might be a small nsolatn. John Schwartz shared your letter wh Joseph Schwartz, the gay son whose g-out story John tells Oddly Normal.
MY SON MIGHT BE GAY. WHAT SHOULD I SAY TO HIM?
Joseph thks ’s time for a gay sex talk.