‘I have a wonrful dghter, who is gay, and a homophobic mother’ – The Irish Tim

Contents:

• MANY PARENTS STGGLE TO ADJT AFTER LEARNG CHILD IS GAY, STUDY FDS
• ‘I HAVE A WONRFUL DGHTER, WHO IS GAY, AND A HOMOPHOBIC MOTHER’
• RAISG A GAY TEEN: WHEN FAH, FAY AND SEXUALY LLI
• LGBTQ+ PARENTS FEAR THEIR CHILDREN WILL HAVE TO HI THEIR FAI AT SCHOOL UNR FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL
• ABIGAIL DISNEY CALLS OUT DISNEY DONATNS TO FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ SUPPORTERS
• DISNEY HEIR BLASTS FLORIDA'S "DON'T SAY GAY" BILL AFTER PUBLICLY G OUT AS TRANSGENR
• ‘MY PARENTS STILL WON’T ACCEPT THAT I’M GAY!’

MANY PARENTS STGGLE TO ADJT AFTER LEARNG CHILD IS GAY, STUDY FDS

She jt told me she’s gay.

Sign up to get "Dear Therapist" your Therapist, As a parent, I firmly believe that is my duty to prepare my kids to be posive, healthy, and productive people both the world and personal when my 12-year-old dghter announced that she is gay, my md started spng. ” Fally, Amanda buried her head her pillow and said, “I’m gay. A new study nducted by rearchers at Gee Washgton Universy found that most parents of lbian, gay, and bisexual youth have difficulty adjtg after their kids e study says is one of the first to systematilly exame the experience of parents raisg lbian, gay and bisexual children.

”The study found that Ain Amerin and Lato parents have a harr time acceptg their lbian, gay and bisexual children, as do the parents of children who e out at a later study, which surveyed a much larger sample size than prev studi, nfirmed smaller studi that showed parents’ negative reactns tend to ease over time; the first two years are the harst for were no signifint differenc reactns between mother and father, the age of the parent, or the genr of the child. The study did not exame the reactns for the parents of transgenr general, acceptance seems to be growg rapidly for lbian, gay and bisexual youth. There’s a lot of kids my school who are gay.

‘I HAVE A WONRFUL DGHTER, WHO IS GAY, AND A HOMOPHOBIC MOTHER’

Qutn: I have a 20-year-old dghter who is gay and who has had the same wonrful girliend for three years. She is extremely homophobic and racist and angry and very set her ways. She has, on numero ocsns, said that gay people will burn hell to my children and that if any of them were gay she would never so much as look at them dghter is kd and rg to absolutely everyone she meets.

As many fai the marriage referendum disvered, the power for change was largely personal and was based on rightsThere were many people who knew of someone who was gay or LGBT+ and they went out of their way to ensure that equal rights applied to their fay or iends or children of iends.

RAISG A GAY TEEN: WHEN FAH, FAY AND SEXUALY LLI

Raisg a gay child has tght her the six years sce 19-year-old Eri Duclos looked to her mother's ey and spoke openly about her sexualy, Bent has fought fear, endured qutns about God and grace, and stggled toward lov her dghter, and she lov her God. "Children — gay and straight — e all varieti, often dimishg stereotyp.

Lots of gay boys like mud and football and rock mic. "You jt wa, " Bent dated boys bee that's what she thought she was supposed to, one day middle school, she learned what "gay" don't remember the tails of the disvery — she thks the rmatn me om the "terrible kids" who ro the b wh her — but sudnly she reached an unrstandg of liked girls, and that attractn had a was gay.

LGBTQ+ PARENTS FEAR THEIR CHILDREN WILL HAVE TO HI THEIR FAI AT SCHOOL UNR FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL

It was her first girl-csh long after, a iend outed her as gay. Rejected and dismantled"Posssed" was the word hurled at gay, the md of her female mentor at church, meant beg ntrolled by a power other than God. "She said she uld set up class for me and put me through a Bible study to teach me how to be un-gay, " Duclos was such a parture om the embrace she formerly felt om her fah played bass as part of her church's youth group band.

ABIGAIL DISNEY CALLS OUT DISNEY DONATNS TO FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ SUPPORTERS

Duclos named the youth pastor's wife as one of her bt when news filtered through the ngregatn that the young mician was gay, Duclos was no longer weled. "The church would cmble if I ever walked back , " she and acceptanceThe fah foundatn shaken, Bent fought to fd stable dghter was gay. "That blew the doors off my fay, " she Bent, 's not that she never had to thk about homosexualy.

DISNEY HEIR BLASTS FLORIDA'S "DON'T SAY GAY" BILL AFTER PUBLICLY G OUT AS TRANSGENR

"Raisg a gay child will break you and make you simultaneoly, " Bent lost her marriage, and even though she is not gay, she beme an outst her church.

She has turned those words to a book lled "Lovg Pearl, " which she has wrten to help other parents of gay children through the journey.

‘MY PARENTS STILL WON’T ACCEPT THAT I’M GAY!’

RourcFor parents wantg to learn more about sexual orientatn, here are a few Parents, Fai and Friends of Lbians and Gays. 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.