What If You Fd Out Your Dad Is Gay? | Jennifer Margulis

Contents:

• IS YOUR DAD GAY—OR ARE YOU A GAY DAD?
• HOW I ACCINTALLY FOUND OUT MY DAD IS GAY
• MY LIFE CHANGED FOREVER THE DAY I FOUND OUT MY FATHER WAS GAY
• IM GAY AND IM ATTRACTED TO MY FATHER..
• GROWG UP WH A GAY FATHER – CONFSNS OM A STRAIGHT SON
• IS MY FATHER GAY?
• THE GAY FATHER I NEVER KNEW
• AFTER 20 YEARS OF MARRIAGE, MY DAD CAME OUT AS GAY
• DAD, YOU'RE GAY? I AM, TOO
• I'M 57 YEARS OLD AND MY FATHER JT DISOWNED ME FOR BEG GAY
• MY DAD COMG OUT AS GAY CHANGED OUR LIV — AND GAVE ME THE COURAGE TO BE MYSELF
• WHAT IF YOU FD OUT YOUR DAD IS GAY?
• HOW TO TELL YOUR PARENTS YOU ARE GAY

IS YOUR DAD GAY—OR ARE YOU A GAY DAD?

Are you a dghter whose dad is gay? Or are you a gay dad?

HOW I ACCINTALLY FOUND OUT MY DAD IS GAY

gay: 1. Most children whose dads are gay were born while their blogil mom and blogil dad were married and livg together.

MY LIFE CHANGED FOREVER THE DAY I FOUND OUT MY FATHER WAS GAY

If you have a gay dad or a lbian mom, after they separate, which of them is most likely to remarry or to remarry and then divorce? Lbian moms are more likely than gay dads to marry their same-sex partner. But gay dads are ls likely to get divorced om their hbands than lbian moms are to get divorced om their wiv.

IM GAY AND IM ATTRACTED TO MY FATHER..

Gay men may experience more discrimatn than lbians, pecially if they are parents.

Our society is still ls acceptg of gay men beg fathers than of lbians beg mothers.

GROWG UP WH A GAY FATHER – CONFSNS OM A STRAIGHT SON

But perhaps the most important rearch fdg is that gay dads and their dghters have closer relatnships when dads tell the tth—and the dads are ls clilly prsed than dads who hi this important rmatn om their children (Tornello, 2018).

Sadly, gay fathers are more aaid than lbian mothers to tell their children the tth, regardls of their age. So if you as a dghter or as a gay dad are still tiptoeg around the topic, ’s time to give yourselv a gift by gettg this skeleton out of the closet.

IS MY FATHER GAY?

(2018) Adult children of gay fathers. Journal of Homosexualy, 65, 1152-1166.

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. If you jt have a feelg that your brother is gay, that's okay.

THE GAY FATHER I NEVER KNEW

If you thk your brother is gay bee he watch a "girly" TV show or his voice sounds a certa way, that's relyg on stereotyp. If you live a particularly homophobic or transphobic area, discs safety plans wh the fay member se of vlence om others. If your fay member has e out as gay or bisexual, accept that they will end up seeg someone of their own genr, and that's perfectly okay.

Don't be aaid to rearch beg gay, bisexual, transgenr, asexual, or whatever your fay member me out as. I thk he might be gay. If you saw your brother kissg another guy and he said he is not attracted to women, y, he is gay.

How do I tell if a child is gay? They might have a lack of tert the oppose sex if they’re homosexual or asexual. In late 1980, at a support group for gay fathers, my dad met Lnel –– the man wh whom he would spend the next 23 years.

AFTER 20 YEARS OF MARRIAGE, MY DAD CAME OUT AS GAY

He had seemed kd of lost his new life – phg 60, recently divorced om my mother, recently out of the closet as gay man.

DAD, YOU'RE GAY? I AM, TOO

He asked that I march wh him, alongsi the other gay fathers and their kids, the Los Angel Pri Para.

What I do remember was that someone had ma T-shirts that said "I LOVE MY GAY DAD" and I refed to wear one. I told my dad, “I love you, but not bee you’re gay.

I'M 57 YEARS OLD AND MY FATHER JT DISOWNED ME FOR BEG GAY

” The tth, though, is that I lacked the urage to stand all the way up for my father and his ras agast a homophobic and different world.

MY DAD COMG OUT AS GAY CHANGED OUR LIV — AND GAVE ME THE COURAGE TO BE MYSELF

I probably left my "I LOVE MY GAY DAD" T-shirt next to the box had e out of, though I might have taken home wh me and buried a drawer. Pete Wilson’s office, or at the Natnal March on Washgton for Lbian and Gay dad and his hband lost a lot of iends to AIDS. Even when I was an obnox 22-year-old and wouldn’t put on a T-shirt to clare, unashamed, unembarrassed and unapologetic, that I love my gay dad.

WHAT IF YOU FD OUT YOUR DAD IS GAY?

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Sce then, he beiend another gay man. "Your dad is gay!

"Heather said Dad is gay. I remember wonrg how my dad uld have done this to me, and — more importantly — what was I gog to tell my iends about my gay dad? It was the '70s and there weren't ol TV characters wh two gay dads like Rachel Barry on Glee.

HOW TO TELL YOUR PARENTS YOU ARE GAY

Even though I grew up New York Cy surround by artists (my mother was an opera sger and my dad a ncert pianist) and knew people who were gay, I had already absorbed the msage that was not OK. At the time, homosexualy was still nsired a disease and was classified as a mental disorr the Diagnostic and Statistil Manual of Mental Disorrs.

I loved some of the gay men I'd met through my parents, but those men weren't my father. After he divorced my mother and me out of the closet, he ma a public display of his gayns, wearg asts and p and even announcg one night while wearg a purse, "This is the new me!