Y, I oppose gay marriage. And here's why.
Contents:
- OPN “MY TWO MOMS: LSONS OF LOVE, STRENGTH, AND WHAT MAK A FAY” BY ZACH WAHLS AND “DO THIS BABY MAKE ME LOOK STRAIGHT?: CONFSNS OF A GAY DAD” BY DAN BUTSKY
- ‘TRMATIZED’ DGHTER OF LGBT PARENTS: ‘MY GAY MOMS OPPRSED ME’
- 'IT'S ALWAYS SUNNY' 'S ROB MCELHENNEY CELEBRAT HIS 2 GAY MOMS 'LOVE IS LOVE' MOTHER'S DAY VIO
- REAL 'MORN FAY': TWO GAY MOMS, ONE GAY DAD AND A WHOLE LOT OF LOVE
- HOW TO TELL YOUR MOM YOU ARE GAY
OPN “MY TWO MOMS: LSONS OF LOVE, STRENGTH, AND WHAT MAK A FAY” BY ZACH WAHLS AND “DO THIS BABY MAKE ME LOOK STRAIGHT?: CONFSNS OF A GAY DAD” BY DAN BUTSKY
* my two gay moms *
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The g out of gay people the 1970s and the emergence of the “gayby boom” and the marriage movement the 1990s were the first two stag of a three-stage rocket. Millns watched the speech on YouTube, and propelled Wahls to a part-time reer as a gay-rights spokman.
"I'm not gay, but I know how feels to be the closet, " he wr. “We, the kids of gay parents, haven’t really ntributed much bee we were by growg up, and adolcence is hard enough as is whout havg to rpond to society’s csant qutns about your fay stcture. Gay parentg has s challeng.
‘TRMATIZED’ DGHTER OF LGBT PARENTS: ‘MY GAY MOMS OPPRSED ME’
Gay dads stggle for sight to a very plaly straight ltle boy and a very girlish ltle girl; the parents' genr rol are unscripted; the fay p wh cursy and disapproval.
" Anti-gay typ may try to make hay wh that anecdote, but Butsky's refal to sugarat mak his book all the more believable and touchg. For centuri, the claim that homosexuals pose a threat to children has been gays’ versn of blood libel.
'IT'S ALWAYS SUNNY' 'S ROB MCELHENNEY CELEBRAT HIS 2 GAY MOMS 'LOVE IS LOVE' MOTHER'S DAY VIO
If, to a gay Amerin, havg children on our si and fai at our backs feels like a miracle, that is bee is a miracle. “My gay moms opprsed me, ” she scribed alongsi the TikTok, which racked up 631, 000 views and more than 100, 000 lik as the natn celebrat Pri month.
REAL 'MORN FAY': TWO GAY MOMS, ONE GAY DAD AND A WHOLE LOT OF LOVE
“I was raised by gay moms growg up, and I want to tell you about the tim that they did not accept me for who I was. In a separate clip posted earlier this month, Clemente humoroly “me out as straight” to her gay mom honor of Pri month via phone. Also read: Not all children raised by gay parents support gay marriage: I should know, I’m one of them.
In other words, I was the only child who experienced life unr “gay parentg” as that term is unrstood today. Que simply, growg up wh gay parents was very difficult, and not bee of prejudice om neighbors.
HOW TO TELL YOUR MOM YOU ARE GAY
The are stereotyp, of urse, but stereotyp e handy when you evably leave the safety of your lbian mom’s trailer and have to work and survive a world where everybody thks stereotypil terms, even gays.
Gay people who grew up straight parents’ hoeholds may have stggled wh their sexual orientatn; but when me to the vast social universe of adaptatns not alg wh sexualy—how to act, how to speak, how to behave—they had the advantage of learng at home.
Many gays don’t realize what a blsg was to be reared a tradnal home.