'I Love A Mama’s Boy' Fans Are Convced Matt Is Gay

Contents:

• GAY MEN AND THEIR MOTHERS: IS THERE A SPECIAL CLOSENS?
• ‘I LOVE A MAMA’S BOY’ FANS ARE CONVCED MATT IS GAY
• ‘I LOVE A MAMA’S BOY’ FANS DOUBLE DOWN ON MATT BEG GAY
• WHY DO GAY MEN TEND TO HAVE CLOSER RELATNSHIPS WH THEIR MOMS STEAD OF THEIR DADS?
• HOW ONE MOTHER’S LOVE FOR HER GAY SON STARTED A REVOLUTN
• MOM'S GEICS COULD PRODUCE GAY SONS

GAY MEN AND THEIR MOTHERS: IS THERE A SPECIAL CLOSENS?

This was found to be te for many of the mothers and sons I terviewed for the study scribed the book: Comg Out, Comg Home: Helpg Fai Adjt to a Gay or Lbian Child ().

Neverthels, this closens uld have a downsi, at least temporarily, as many mothers ially blame themselv and the close relatnships for their sons' homosexualy.

‘I LOVE A MAMA’S BOY’ FANS ARE CONVCED MATT IS GAY

So, perhaps is not pletely surprisg that once they learned their sons were gay, some of the mothers I terviewed felt that they had done somethg to damage them. Even though rearch sce the 1950's has bunked , this theory persists people's mds and rears s ugly head for mothers when they ially learn their sons are gay.

Fortunately, for many mothers of gay son—wh time and tn, they learn that the ia that they had somehow ma their son gay is ad wrong This was te of the mothers my study who also me to see the benefs havg a gay son as will be scribed later this post. My rearch, clil and personal experienc suggt that there is ed a al lk between male homosexualy and a close maternal relatnship but flows the oppose directn than what was prevly thought. The young gay mal this study relled sharg terts mon wh their mothers, such as fashn and okg, and were also sensive to their feelgs.

I thk personally [beg gay] ma me a more emotnal person, more sensive, more touch wh both the male and female sis of myself, but allowg me to even acknowledge that other si ma me closer to my mother.

‘I LOVE A MAMA’S BOY’ FANS DOUBLE DOWN ON MATT BEG GAY

Once mothers this study got over their feelgs of guilt and got ed to the ia that their sons were gay, they were able to regnize the benefs of havg a gay son.

However, we get to hot water when we allow stereotyp to get the way of unrstandg the uniquens of dividuals and their circumstanc—so is important to remember that not all mothers and gay sons are close. Sadly, some mothers simply nnot adjt to their sons' homosexualy, due to their guilt, relig ncerns, or abily to "let go" and accept the ways they live their liv. It’s a tism that our earlit selv are shaped large part by our bonds wh our parents, and nowhere is this more te than when a son is gay.

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WHY DO GAY MEN TEND TO HAVE CLOSER RELATNSHIPS WH THEIR MOMS STEAD OF THEIR DADS?

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It jt go to show that there is a market for a well-produced prt magaze showsg fe art photography by queer and gay photographers that is not jt a dick magaze! June 6, 2018 (Joseph Sciambra) – Scientist Simon LeVay, who has spent most of his reer tryg to lote a “gay” geic termate for homosexualy, his book Gay, Straight, and the Reason Why: The Science of Sexual Orientatn, wrote: “[G]ay men do ed scribe their relatnships wh their mothers as closer, and their relatnships wh their fathers as more distant and hostile, as pared wh how straight men scribe the relatnships.

” Borrowg om the theori of Amerin psychiatrist and gay activist Richard Isay, LeVay thks 's possible that some pre-homosexual boys exhib certa tras fathers dislike but mothers like. In my own life as a “gay” man, the scenar I repeatedly wnsed was the son of fdg or divorced parents, whereby the boy be nfidant and “girliend” to the bter and sufferg mother. “… 's te that we all have wildly different relatnships wh our parents and plenty of gay men spend jt as much time worryg about his reactn.

HOW ONE MOTHER’S LOVE FOR HER GAY SON STARTED A REVOLUTN

“I thk that the story of my relatnship wh my mother Mama Jean is universal no matter what age you are, whether you're 50 or 15, that the parent/child relatnship is universal, that the mother/son relatnship is universal, and that the mother/gay son relatnship is universal. Though my mother was what some nsir to be a stereotypil “gay” mother, domant, overbearg, but certaly that type of mother will always exist, and the mon dynamic between mothers of gay sons…I believe that gay men and straight women have a natural affy for each other, and I thk that dynamic starts wh the mother. Bee I thk gay men are touch wh the feme sis of ourselv, and we're tune wh that wh our mothers a way that a straight son is not and a different way that a straight dghter would not be.

We don't do stereotypil gay-son-and-mum thgs such as shoppg, but I'm a sensive person, and Mum feels fortable tellg me anythg…I told Mum…and she gave me a big hug.

MOM'S GEICS COULD PRODUCE GAY SONS

After all, she asks, don’t prevailg wisdom claim that boys who grow up whout fathers turn out to be helpls sissi, vlent adults, or gay? She has the book and DVDs of "Brgg Up Boys" her hoe — y, by Jam Dobson, the man om Foc on the Fay who believ that homosexualy is a disorr that n be cured, and whose ia of raisg a boy is stnchly enuragg him to do nothg but Manly Man Thgs.

Hontly, one of my biggt fears is that the boy is gay and when he grows up, he’ll look back on his babysters punishg him for wantg to explore his sexualy as somethg that trmatized him. At my school, the very place that I first observed queer cursy, I was sred to e out, fearg my own physil and emotnal wasn’t jt the school locker room where I heard homophobic remarks.

Perhaps was the support of iends, nts, and those around me that ma me not want to feel ashamed about myself anymore, even if that meant God damng me to the begng of senr year, I went om “I’m gay” to whoever asked, to “Can you stop sayg faggot please? A month later, I cid to no longer participate the mentorship program, and every time I was asked why, I ma exc about beg too time, I retreated to my fantasy world, where I was not sixteen and gay a homophobic environment, but a world where I was olr, the future, when I would arrive to a betiful home om a long day at work, and be weled by a hband who lov me and bears my burns on his shoulrs.