Hank Williams Jr.'s son, untry sger Sam Williams, has e out as gay the mic vio for his new song, Tilted Crown, and a subsequent terview.
Contents:
- NFL ACH BE FIRST MALE ACH MAJOR U.S. MEN’S PRO SPORTS TO E OUT AS GAY
- HANK WILLIAMS JR.’S SON, SAM WILLIAMS, COM OUT AS GAY NEW MIC VIO + INTERVIEW
- JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
- TOUCHG VIO SHOWS SON E OUT AS GAY TO MORMON DAD
NFL ACH BE FIRST MALE ACH MAJOR U.S. MEN’S PRO SPORTS TO E OUT AS GAY
Kev Maxen, an assistant strength and ndng ach for the NFL's Jacksonville Jaguars, has bee the first male ach major U.S. profsnal men's sports to publicly e out as gay. * son comes out as gay *
She said that he had told her dghter that he was gay. We were poorly rmed and relyg on societal and relig prejudic about gay people, so at tim, we end up sayg stupid and hurtful thgs.
Durg one of our first nversatns about his sexual orientatn, I tried to talk “ratnally” wh him and ask him if he was “sure” that he was gay. ” He put his arm around me and said: “Mom, there are some stat where gay upl n adopt.
HANK WILLIAMS JR.’S SON, SAM WILLIAMS, COM OUT AS GAY NEW MIC VIO + INTERVIEW
* son comes out as gay *
Our son knows that we love him and will not reject him, but was a ighteng procs sce we surely did not unrstand the trma that often occurs when a gay child grows up an unacceptg home. I sometim wonr why I still attend a church that has ma some very unkd statements about gay people.
Perhaps all gay people have already left. But what about the fai of gay people, like ?
JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
Kev Maxen, an associate strength ach wh the Jacksonville Jaguars, has bee the first male ach a major U.S.-based profsnal league to e out as gay. * son comes out as gay *
I’ve e to realize that gay people don’t want special rights, they want equal rights. Marriage equaly has e to many stat the last ten years, and I hope that this is the year my state that non-discrimatn protectn for gay, lbian and transgenr people will bee the law of the land. For gay, bi, and queer sons, who may grow up wh the sense that somethg about their masculy is different, your reassurance means the world.
“It's the words that you say that bee the thoughts their heads, ” Flor a recent study, published the Journal of Pediatric Healthre, Flor and his lleagu terviewed 30 gay, bisexual, and queer cisgenr teen boys on their munitn wh their parents about sexualy. Aga and aga, the boys emphasized the importance of an open and ongog clive nversatn about sexualy, one that acknowledg the existence of gay sex.
No matter how awkward, the nversatns signaled that ’s okay to e to mom or dad, that they n nfi their parents, and that they n ask them qutns — even before turng to iends or the nversatns are all the more ccial the era of “Don’t Say Gay” legislatn, one terviewee noted. ”Among the biggt securi a gay, bisexual, or queer boy has: that g out will dispt his relatnship wh you.
TOUCHG VIO SHOWS SON E OUT AS GAY TO MORMON DAD
”In his Journal of Pediatric Healthre study, Flor found that was important to gay, bi, and queer youth that their parents acknowledged sex and were open to clive nversatns about — the discsns helped remove some of the stigma of gay sex and rerced the ia that home is a safe environment. ”Chanc are, you’ve msed up the past — lghed at a homophobic joke on televisn, ma a remark about a man’s feme cloth or prentatn, or reacted wh disfort to nversatns about same-sex relatnships or sex.
Many of the straight parents I terviewed for When Your Child Is Gay: What You Need To Know exprsed havg felt disappotment learng that their child was LGBT. Would he be fired at his job if his supervisors found out that he were gay?