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Contents:
- WHAT DO CHILDREN LL THEIR GAY PARENTS?
- WHAT’S A NAME? PLENTY, IF YOU’RE A LBIAN OR GAY PARENT, SAYS GRAD-STUNT SOCLOGIST
WHAT DO CHILDREN LL THEIR GAY PARENTS?
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I ask Barrie Drewt-Barlow, Bra's most famo gay dad, who wh his partner Tony has five children rangg age om one to 11, how they approached the issue. " Another gay uple I speak to say they go by "Mommy and Mommy2".
A., Gay Pri Month, tak place June to memorate the 1969 Stonewall rts. Craig Rodwell: Found the Osr Wil Memorial Bookshop voted to gay and lbian thors and anized the first gay pri para. Dannielle Owens-Reid and Krist Rso: Founrs of Everyone Is Gay, which supports LGBTQ (the Q stands for “Qutng”) youth at high schools and llege mp across the natn.
WHAT’S A NAME? PLENTY, IF YOU’RE A LBIAN OR GAY PARENT, SAYS GRAD-STUNT SOCLOGIST
How do lbian and gay parents navigate a world where heterosexualy is still the norm? Rafael Colonna, a Ph.D. stunt soclogy, has been terviewg same-sex parents across California to fd out. In the procs, he’s disvered that fay life, “small practic” such as assigng fay nam and tl, “have a lot of meang behd them.” * gay parent names *
In 1971, he beme the first openly gay polician to n for Congrs. Harvey Milk: Former Navy litenant and first openly gay man to serve a public office California.
Jse Tyler Fergon: Plays Mchell Prchett on ABC’s Morn Fay and started Tie the Knot, a nonprof chary “to advote for the civil rights of gay and lbian Amerins throughout the Uned Stat and beyond. Victor Fehrenbach: Highly rated officer and the hight-rankg openly gay member of the U. Why LGBT teens are turng to dgsHow to help gay teens fd their wayParentg a gay child.
It found that of 80 participants — 20 lbian upl and 20 gay upl — reced om adoptn agenci across the Uned Stat, cludg ci wh high ncentratns of lbian and gay populatns, all opted for rivativ of mother and nearly 13 percent — 20 percent of the lbian upl and 5 percent of the gay upl — participated some versn of “undog genr. It requir a lot of explanatn and clarifitn, maybe even phback om schools certa geographil ntexts, ls gay-affirmg areas of the untry, like, ‘What do you mean you go by ‘Maddie’?