Explorg Who Is And What Mak A Gay "Daddy" - The Randy Report

Contents:

• GROWG UP WH A GAY FATHER – CONFSNS OM A STRAIGHT SON
• HOW I ACCINTALLY FOUND OUT MY DAD IS GAY
• MY LIFE CHANGED FOREVER THE DAY I FOUND OUT MY FATHER WAS GAY
• SGLE GAY DADS GIVE TIPS FOR FIRST-TIME PARENTS: ‘I CREATED THE VILLAGE AROUND MYSELF’
• AFTER 20 YEARS OF MARRIAGE, MY DAD CAME OUT AS GAY
• MY GAY DAD, MY QUEER FAY, HAPPILY EVER AFTER
• EXPLORG WHO IS AND WHAT MAK A GAY “DADDY”
• 'DAD, I'M GAY': BOOK EXPLOR THE OFTEN CHALLENGG RELATNSHIP OF GAY MEN AND THEIR FATHERS
• MY DAD COMG OUT AS GAY CHANGED OUR LIV — AND GAVE ME THE COURAGE TO BE MYSELF
• I'M 57 YEARS OLD AND MY FATHER JT DISOWNED ME FOR BEG GAY
• IS YOUR DAD GAY—OR ARE YOU A GAY DAD?

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

But I knew he was gay by the time I was 7 or 8.

HOW I ACCINTALLY FOUND OUT MY DAD IS GAY

So this is my story of growg up wh a gay father. Growg up wh a gay father, particularly one who was aaid to e out, prented challeng our abily to get emotnally close.

I don’t rell a time when I didn’t know my Dad was gay.

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

From my earlit memori of my Dad around age 5, I thk I always knew my dad was gay. Th I never had that aha moment of realizg “I have a gay father”!

SGLE GAY DADS GIVE TIPS FOR FIRST-TIME PARENTS: ‘I CREATED THE VILLAGE AROUND MYSELF’

To hear both of them tell , my Dad beg gay wasn’t a factor the spl. How my Dad me to terms wh beg gay.

I don’t thk anyone knew yet that my Dad was gay. After all, he was the son of a Baptist Preacher and there would not have been much tolerance the 1940’s or 50’s for him to e out as gay. In talkg to both of them over the years, they both claim they had no ia my Dad was gay.

In retrospect, the fact that he was a cheerlear his bt iend was a male hairdrser (who was openly gay) that my Uncle Buddy nicknamed him “Percy” (which my Dad hated) and that my Dad went on to open a home furnishgs store might have been a clue. Realizg his sexualy and beg a gay father the late 1960s, pecially wh me a long way away, mt have been really transformative for my Dad.

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

He lived and around the Oak Lawn area of Dallas (long a predomantly gay or at least gay-iendly neighborhood). He was meetg lots of openly gay people & gog to clubs where was OK to be openly gay. Beg a gay father the 1960s.

MY GAY DAD, MY QUEER FAY, HAPPILY EVER AFTER

My Dad never actually me out as gay to me or to most people. I’d known my Dad is gay for some time, but we’d never discsed .

My Dad, of urse, was sistent that no one would obvly know he was gay (which also ma Tom and I lgh).

Are you a gay father stgglg to e out?

EXPLORG WHO IS AND WHAT MAK A GAY “DADDY”

In Loren’s se, he didn’t e to terms wh beg gay until the age of 40 and was married wh children at the time. How growg up wh a gay father affected me. The one benef to always knowg I had a gay father is that there was never I time I rell thkg was wrong.

I first realized my Dad was gay when I was around 7 or 8, and I have no rellectn of him beg wh my Mom. Almost all his iends were gay as were most of his employe (those 2 groups pretty much beg the same people). That beg said, I was probably spared a lot of bullyg at school sce no one there knew I had a gay father.

'DAD, I'M GAY': BOOK EXPLOR THE OFTEN CHALLENGG RELATNSHIP OF GAY MEN AND THEIR FATHERS

I feel que sure I got lucky this regard and that many kids wh a gay father were picked on for their parent’s sexualy.

How knowg their grandfathers are gay affects my kids. I’m proud of the fact that I and their mother have raised our dghters to not qutn or judge my Dad or Tom beg gay.

They don’t see him as my “gay father”; jt my father.

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

Our girls simply accept them for who they are, jt as they do all their other fay members who happen to not be gay. I always knew he was gay and never had that “my Dad is gay” aha moment of realizg I had a gay father.

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

Together we learned how to be a father and son a day and age where beg a gay father was most certaly owned upon.

If you are a gay father or the child of a gay father (or mother), and your relatnship isn’t all that uld be, don’t wa until ’s too late to fix . [Gay Pri Para Rally Dallas] – This photograph is part of the llectn entled: LGBT Collectns and one other and was provid by UNT Librari Special Collectns to Digal Library.

IS YOUR DAD GAY—OR ARE YOU A GAY DAD?

What is wh you gays? J tells to love everyone, even the whor and the homosexuals. He seemed a ltle credibly gay...