Gay Support: Where to Fd LGBT Help and Support Groups | HealthyPlace

Contents:

• WHAT TO DO WHEN YOUR CHILD SAYS: "I'M GAY"
• GAY SUPPORT: WHERE TO FD LGBT HELP AND SUPPORT GROUPS
• MY SON THKS HE’S GAY
• 'MY SON IS GAY' HELP!
• IS YOUR CHILD GAY?
• I TRIED TO STOP MY SON FROM BEG GAY. I WISH I HADN'T

WHAT TO DO WHEN YOUR CHILD SAYS: "I'M GAY"

When parents learn that their child is gay, lbian, bisexual, or transgenr, they n experience a range of emotns. As a matter of fact, you might someday look back and fd that you are grateful for the experience of havg a gay or lbian child.

GAY SUPPORT: WHERE TO FD LGBT HELP AND SUPPORT GROUPS

Well, my study of 65 fai of gay and lbian youth for the book, Comg Out, Comg Home: Helpg Fai Adjt to a Gay or Lbian Child, I found that some parents get to the pot where they believe that the experience of havg a gay child actually ma them a better person—more open-md and sensive to the needs of others, particularly those other mory groups. If you jt found out your child is gay, lbian, bisexual, or transgenr, you may be thkg that such ias are prepostero.

MY SON THKS HE’S GAY

The tstworthy nfidants let them vent but also rrected some of the misperceptns they absorbed om society, such as that gay people are lonely, unhappy, promiscuo, not fay-oriented, unable to have children, or sted for an unhappy life. Contact Parents, Fay, and Friends of Lbians and Gays (PFLAG).

'MY SON IS GAY' HELP!

List of Helpful Books for Parents of Gay and Lbian Children. Straight Parents Gay Children: Keepg Fai Together (revised edn). Beyond Acceptance: Parents of Lbians, and Gays Talk About Their Experienc.

Somethg to Tell You: The Road Fai Travel when a Child is Gay. Comg Out, Comg Home: Helpg Fai Adjt to a Gay or Lbian Child.

IS YOUR CHILD GAY?

Fortunate Fai: Catholic fai wh lbian dghters and gay sons.

I TRIED TO STOP MY SON FROM BEG GAY. I WISH I HADN'T

Mom, Dad, I'm Gay: How Fai Negotiate Comg Out. They immediately clocked as gay, while we immediately clocked them as we warmed up to another, one mom anxly said: "I have a qutn: I am pretty sure my son is gay, but I don't know what to do. "For example, if someone the word "gay" place of "stupid, " remd them that the two are not terchangeable, and suggt they should say what they actually mean stead.

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