Gay Youth Comg Out In Middle School : NPR

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

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“I’m a 13-year-old boy and I thk I’m gay but I haven’t told anyone. What books n I read to help me get the urage to tell people – and make sure that I’m that fely gay?

” For direct, practil advice, I wrote This Book Is 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.

THE DIGAL SEX LIV OF YOUNG GAY TEENAGERS

Gay kids are g out earlier — sometim middle school — and many are fdg acceptance. But some parents and teachers wonr if the kids are too young to really know their sexual orientatn. * gay 13 years boy *

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.

WHEN DO GAY KIDS START “ACTG GAY”?

For most kids, the social prsur of middle school are tough enough. But an creasg number of young teenagers, some as young 10 or 11, are g out as gay or lbian middle school. Beno Denizet-Lewis, who wrote about the trend the New York Tim Magaze, discs what social factors uld be leadg young people to e out earlier. * gay 13 years boy *

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GAY KIDS COMG OUT YOUNGER, BUT PARENTS ASK "HOW DO YOU KNOW?"

13-year-olds Ju (Hayn Byerly) and Connor (Gav MacIntosh) share a kiss on ABC Fay's The Fosters, makg TV history by showg the youngt ever gay kiss on-screen. * gay 13 years boy *

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IS YOUR CHILD GAY?

”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.

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.