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Contents:

• HOW TO TELL IF YOUR SON IS GAY
• MY GAY SON WALKED OUT AFTER I UGHT HIM WH BOYIEND THE SHOWER
• MY GAY SON WANTS HIS BOYIEND TO STAY OVER
• DAD ACCINTALLY DISVERS HIS TEENAGE SON IS GAY, CONSULTS REDD ON HOW TO RPOND
• 'RETURN THE KEY': THE PARENTS WHO REJECT THEIR GAY CHILDREN
• MOM, I’M GAY. CAN MY FRIENDS SLEEP OVER?

HOW TO TELL IF YOUR SON IS GAY

First, my wife will be unhappy to learn our son is gay. For help alg wh all this, ntact PFLAG, which giv valuable support to parents wh gay children. There's a new Android app out (here's the English versn) lled "Is My Son Gay?

") that will tell you if, fact, your son is a gay person. So below I've provid a better list of ways to tell if your son is a gay person who is you e home om work and you hear nois upstairs and you go up to vtigate and your son's door is open and you tch him "hookg up" (as kids ll today) wh his iend Michael, and you quickly turn around and walk back downstairs and later that night over dner you say "You know, honey, if there's ever anythg you need to tell me... " and he says "Mom, I'm gay, " then your son is your son has recently gone to llege and hasn't been touch much and you figure hey he's new to llege, he's by makg iends and whatnot, and then late one night he lls you on the phone soundg upset about somethg and you ask him what's wrong and he's quiet for a while and then says "Nothg's wrong, really, I'm jt...

MY GAY SON WALKED OUT AFTER I UGHT HIM WH BOYIEND THE SHOWER

Dad, I'm gay, " then your son is your son ever been on a long drive to one of your dghter's swim meets wh you and when stopped at a red light he's turned to you and said "Mom, I feel like I owe to you and dad to tell you that, well, Donald is my boyiend. I'm gay"?

Then your son is probably gay. Chanc are that if you are on your athbed and your tranged son to vis you the middle of a ray night and he ss by your bed quietly until he begs to cry and clutch your hand and says "I wish I'd told you sooner that I'm gay" and then you both stay there silence, you pretendg to be asleep, the only noise the beepg of the mach that will only keep you alive for a ltle while longer, your son is you and your spoe are ever visg your son the big cy he now liv wh all his fancy iends and fancy rtrants and you're out to an awkward lunch before your tra home and you three get to another potls fight about years-old stuff and 's really unfortable and fally you or your spoe says "Well, if you'd jt settle down wh the right girl, I thk-" and then your son terpts you by yellg "Guys, I'm GAY. Gay gay gay, gay as gay gets.

MY GAY SON WANTS HIS BOYIEND TO STAY OVER

I'm gay. I'm not gay, but my boyiend is! " and then you lgh and ms his hair and the livg room your hband shows your son's boyiend his mol ships, then your son is probably gay, though he might be bisexual, so be reful about your son ever says "Oh my goodns, " when surprised or when openg a gift, well then yeah, he probably gay.

He's accg me of beg homophobic after I told him off for breakg the one le I hadDear Coleen, My life is a b of a ms at the moment, to say the least.

When he was 15, he told me he was gay and, although taken aback, I accepted 100%. He’s accg me of beg homophobic, even though all I did was tell him off for breakg my one and only le.

DAD ACCINTALLY DISVERS HIS TEENAGE SON IS GAY, CONSULTS REDD ON HOW TO RPOND

He’s accg you of beg homophobic – which you’re not – bee ’s easier than acceptg that he was wrong.

'RETURN THE KEY': THE PARENTS WHO REJECT THEIR GAY CHILDREN

Remd him that you love him and have no problem wh him beg gay, but he crossed a le. How the language surroundg gay relatnships is changg wh social morLucy Nicholson / RtersIf gaydar is the abily to tu someone’s sexual orientatn merely by lookg at them, what’s the flip si?

It’s the abily to tell, wh one word, whether someone might be homophobic. ” The qutns have repeatedly been asked by people—neighbors, actual iends, relativ I sentially like—who already know that my 23-year-old son Sean is gay and that Henry is not his “iend. I nsir my ultimate, secret weapon for outg what I nsir to be the homophob my Powell, however, se a ltle differently.

“For some people may well be homophobia, ” Powell told me. The qutn is how to distguish between the people who mean well but jt don’t know what to say, and those who really have a hard time wh gay relatnships.

MOM, I’M GAY. CAN MY FRIENDS SLEEP OVER?

I’m well aware of my bias—a protective, Mama Bear stct that clouds my thkg about anythg affectg the son of me who happens to be gay (as well as my three straight kids). By now, though, jt about everyone I know more than passg is aware my olst son is gay. Closer nnectns—cludg all the “iend” brandishers—know he’s got a boyiend, a fiercely telligent mician who n whip up a gourmet meal like nobody’s bs (and lovgly transform my kchen to an aromatic wreck the procs) while my gaydar may be lackg (I didn’t know for certa that Sean was gay until he me out to me at age 16), I n ually tell om the everyday exchang who isn’t ready to hear about my son’s boyiend as fortably as they are, for stance, to hear about my dghter’s.

After years of fs and starts, the staggerg pace of progrs LGBT rights has ma a lot easier to sniff out those hidg behd a faça of gay acceptance pole pany. In 2003, he noticed that when many of those he terviewed said the words “gay, ” “lbian” or “homosexual, ” they ed a verbal filler like “um” before the word or even lowered their voic, “not unlike when I was growg up, ” he relled, “and my mother said the word ‘ncer.

”But this sea change—and s effects on the language surroundg gay rights—hasn’t even ught up wh everyone the trench. Powell himself has gay iends who won’t refer to themselv as hband and hband or wife and wife, if only bee they hadn’t heard others like themselv referrg to their spo this way the past.