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Contents:
- YOUR CHILD JT TOLD YOU HE'S GAY. NOW WHAT?
- OUR SEVEN-YEAR-OLD SON TOLD HE WAS 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"
- MY LOVELY 16 YEAR OLD SON JT TOLD ME HE'S GAY
- MY SON TOLD FRIENDS HE’S GAY. HE TELLS ME HE WAS JOKG.
YOUR CHILD JT TOLD YOU HE'S GAY. NOW WHAT?
Growg up, I was a tomboy — or what Larry David would later ll “pre-gay. And while my father was anx when I first me out as gay at 19, I have only ever felt supported by him.
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OUR SEVEN-YEAR-OLD SON TOLD HE WAS GAY
A gay uple, as picted by Unstable Diffn. For straight parents, havg a child reveal that he is gay n be a jolt. You might ask how long he or she has known, and why he feels he is gay, bi, or trans, suggts Jonathan Tobk, M.
D., a psychiatrist private practice New York Cy and the -thor of When Your Child Is Gay: What You Need to Know. You n fd one through the Associatn of Gay and Lbian Psychiatrists.
I TRIED TO STOP MY SON FROM BEG GAY. I WISH I HADN'T
Take the extra step and show your child that you are terted beg the parent of a gay child. Edute yourself on what means to be gay, lbian, bisexual or transgenr. PFLAG, or Parents for Lbians and Gays, which now has a group for transgenr youth, and holds natnwi chapters and meetgs;.
WHAT TO DO WHEN YOUR CHILD SAYS: "I'M GAY"
He took a be of chicken and announced, his matter-of-fact way, “I hope you know I’m gay. In a flood of words, he told me he wanted to tell his iends that he was gay— felt like he was keepg a secret om them, and when he thought about too much, ma him feel heart ached, and I wished I uld rewd to the time when kiss and cuddl fixed absolutely everythg.
MY LOVELY 16 YEAR OLD SON JT TOLD ME HE'S GAY
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MY SON TOLD FRIENDS HE’S GAY. HE TELLS ME HE WAS JOKG.
I tried to pray the gay away wh my teenage son.
The feelgs you’ve had for other guys don’t make you gay. So please don’t tell anyone that you ARE gay. Your inty is not that you are gay — is that you are a child of love you.