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Contents:

• IS MY 13-YEAR-OLD SON GAY?
• I’M A BOY OF 13 AND I THK I’M GAY BUT I HAVEN’T TOLD ANYONE. WHAT BOOKS N I READ?
• THE DIGAL SEX LIV OF YOUNG GAY TEENAGERS
• APPLE APPROV 'ONLY GAY SOCIAL APP FOR AG 12 AND UP'
• 24 LGBTQ+ TV SCEN THAT MY 13-YEAR-OLD BABY GAY SELF WOULD'VE MELTED INTO A PUDDLE OVER
• THE HEARTBREAKG TE STORY OF THE GAY TEEN AND HIS DAD BEHD ‘JOE BELL’
• IS YOUR CHILD GAY?
• GAY YOUTH COMG OUT IN MIDDLE SCHOOL
• A GAY OLD BOY

IS MY 13-YEAR-OLD SON GAY?

I have a 13-year-old son (seventh gra) who has been visg gay porno s (two tim that I know about). She don't thk he's gay but certaly thks visg the typ of Web s isn't normal.

I’M A BOY OF 13 AND I THK I’M GAY BUT I HAVEN’T TOLD ANYONE. WHAT BOOKS N I READ?

To paraphrase a Frank Zappa song om the 1960s, I'm not gay but there's a whole lot of tim I wish I uld say I wasn't straight!

I mean, we straight people have to really step up on this whole homosexualy thg. Can you image what 's like for a kid as the natural procs, spirual and blogil and utterly beyond his ntrol, are takg him on a strange ri that he didn't really buy a ticket to but he's on anyway, as he's tryg to grow up and nform and figure out what he supposed to be dog, what 's like for him to realize that the way he's velopg, jt, by the way, is utterly eakg out the adults, so they're havg nferenc the kchen and they're lookg at him funny and not believg what he says, and now he's lyg about what he's lookg at bee he has no ia what's gog to happen to him if turns out, horror of horrors, that he might actually be gay, that 's a sry, weird problem that he has to hi om others, pecially those his own fay?

And we straights wonr why gay guys sometim wa until their 20s or 30s or 40s to e out to their fai? Or prefer not to mentn or make a topic of natnal discsn or get a ltle tty when we assume that our latterly disvered enlightenment we will treat every gay guy as regnal spokman for, like, Gay Ameri, and we brg up the gayns of others as if we were the on who, naturally, bee we are so wise other areas such as the nduct of foreign policy and stewardship of the environment, will take upon ourselv to ci for them how they ought to act and what they are entled to and whether they n live together and get married and vis each other the hospal? If I was gay but had the benef of knowg how we straight people thk, would I ever e out?

THE DIGAL SEX LIV OF YOUNG GAY TEENAGERS

It's not gog to ask whether should produce gay people or straight people. What books n I read to help me get the urage to tell people – and make sure that I’m that fely gay? Siarly, Becky Albertelli’s Simon Vs the Homosapien’s Agenda and Liz Ksler’s Read Me Like A Book look at the mefield of g ’s about transgenr youths, not gay on, but Lisa Williamson’s The Art of Beg Normal is warm and upliftg and looks at the rewards and challeng of livg a more thentic, hont life.

APPLE APPROV 'ONLY GAY SOCIAL APP FOR AG 12 AND UP'

Two Weeks Wh The Queen by Morris Glezman was wrten the 80s at a time when there was a lot more homophobia about and AIDS was still a new, uncurable disease – this book is surprisgly funny and heartwarmg, given the subject. S., and ns om the fifti to the neti but do start wh two ne year old s, both gay, who form a lifelong iendship.

If he is gay, havg a uple of role mols like Achill and Patrocl will make a nice (healthy) change om the vast majory of gay trop out there. Gross on the gay hookup app Grdr and that they had met for sex before.

24 LGBTQ+ TV SCEN THAT MY 13-YEAR-OLD BABY GAY SELF WOULD'VE MELTED INTO A PUDDLE OVER

”It’s mon for gay, bisexual or qutng mors to go onle to meet other gay people. But most onle social works for gay men are geared toward adults and foced on sex.

They have failed to protect mors, who simply have to subtract a few years om their birth date to create a om the Centers for Disease Control and Preventn and a new study The Journal of Adolcent Health together suggt that roughly one four gay and bisexual boys aged 14 to 17 the Uned Stat are on gay hookup apps signed for adults (Grdr, Scff, Jack’d, Adam4Adam).

But this brgs up nfintialy risks for gay men who don’t want to be uld also e algorhms to tect nversatns between mors and adults. When I searched onle for “gay chat, ” as a lonely, closeted child might, the first h was #1 Chat Avenue.

THE HEARTBREAKG TE STORY OF THE GAY TEEN AND HIS DAD BEHD ‘JOE BELL’

Two mut after I opened a gay chat room, a er wrote: “Any boys 13 or 14 wh meras? Parents also need to stay lm, so that the kids feel fortable g back to them if they ever end up a bad suatn, like if a sry stranger won’t stop a society, we have failed to create enough spac for gay youth to thrive, phg them onle and unrground.

A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 27 of the New York edn wh the headle: Young, Gay and Vulnerable Onle.

The founrs of believe 's time for a gay social app that don't have sex at s re.

IS YOUR CHILD GAY?

Do you feel that the gay muny is all too often symbolized by shy torsos wh a body fat percentage below 3? Do you sense that when you thk of gay apps, the first that to md is Grdr? The fe urban studi theorist Richard Florida has offered that ci thrive when they attract a dynamic gay populatn.

) believe that, when to apps, the gay muny hasn't offered the full bloom of s most tasteful si. So they've created This, they claim, is "the only gay social app approved by the iTun store for 12-year-olds and olr.

" Implic this ro marketg speak is the notn that gay people know where 's at before, you know, other sorts of people do. '" Belk says he's lnchg bee he beme "disgted by the tastels torsos and imagery on gay social s and apps. " He wants "the good-taste part of the gay stereotype to ga tractn wh advertisers and cross the mastream divi.

GAY YOUTH COMG OUT IN MIDDLE SCHOOL

What is surely ol, however, about this iative is that promis to be your "well-nnected, -the-know, VIP gay iend. I only wish my baby gay self uld've seen such a tremendoly brave act. I was a junr llege when gay marriage was legalized US, so I hontly never thought I uld get married.

Seeg this scene as a pre-teen, even when gay marriage was illegal, still would've given me hope that I uld fd someone who would want to spend the rt of their life wh me, regardls of what the law says. When Eric proudly clared that he would rather be himself than hi away after his father exprsed ncerns about him gog out to the world as a gay man on Sex Edutn:.

"Trevor, " told the story of a gay 13-year-old who is bullied bee of his sexualy and then tri to take his own life. In April 2013, Joe Bell left his home La Gran, a small town the northeast rner of Oregon, to walk across the untry honor of his 15-year-old son, Jad, who had died Febary a few weeks after attemptg and his wife, Lola Lathrop, told lol and natnal news outlets at the time that Jad was bullied for beg gay, both onle and at school. In addn to beg the only out gay stunt at his school, he was also the only boy on the cheerleadg squad, and Bell told Salon 2013 that he was bullied for said he uld relate to Jad and his story, bee he was also bullied growg up Texas.

A GAY OLD BOY

19, 2010, Seth Walsh, a gay 13-year-old livg Southern California, died by suici after beg bullied. Three days later, Tyler Clementi, a gay stunt at Rutgers Universy-New Bnswick, killed himself after beg rerd on a webm kissg another man. Both lbians and gay men often have a history of cross-sex-typed behavrs: ltle boys beg fatuated wh their mother's makp k; ltle girls enamored of field hockey or profsnal wrtlg.

Prehomosexual boys tend to be more attracted to solary sports such as swimmg, cyclg and tennis than they are to rougher ntact sports such as football and soccer. Children who show pronounced sex-atypil behavrs may have more of a geic loadg to their homosexualy.

The behavral patterns are feared, loathed and often spoken of directly as harbgers of adult homosexualy.