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Contents:
- EARLY SIGNS TO TELL YOUR CHILD IS GAY
- ‘IT’S MY FLORIDA TOO’: PULSE SHOOTG SURVIVOR BRANDON WOLF ON BEG BLACK, GAY AND THE ANTI-RON DESANTIS
- HELP! I THK MY KID IS GAY
- PARENT SPECTS THAT CHILD MIGHT BE GAY
- IS YOUR CHILD GAY?
EARLY SIGNS TO TELL YOUR CHILD IS GAY
If you jt have a feelg that your brother is gay, that's okay.
If you thk your brother is gay bee he watch a "girly" TV show or his voice sounds a certa way, that's relyg on stereotyp. If you live a particularly homophobic or transphobic area, discs safety plans wh the fay member se of vlence om others.
If your fay member has e out as gay or bisexual, accept that they will end up seeg someone of their own genr, and that's perfectly okay.
‘IT’S MY FLORIDA TOO’: PULSE SHOOTG SURVIVOR BRANDON WOLF ON BEG BLACK, GAY AND THE ANTI-RON DESANTIS
Don't be aaid to rearch beg gay, bisexual, transgenr, asexual, or whatever your fay member me out as. I thk he might be gay.
HELP! I THK MY KID IS GAY
If you saw your brother kissg another guy and he said he is not attracted to women, y, he is gay. How do I tell if a child is gay?
They might have a lack of tert the oppose sex if they’re homosexual or asexual. They immediately clocked as gay, while we immediately clocked them as we warmed up to another, one mom anxly said: "I have a qutn: I am pretty sure my son is gay, but I don't know what to do. "For example, if someone the word "gay" place of "stupid, " remd them that the two are not terchangeable, and suggt they should say what they actually mean stead.
PARENT SPECTS THAT CHILD MIGHT BE GAY
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IS YOUR CHILD GAY?
”Wolf had sought refuge Florida 15 years ago when he was done wh ral Oregon, the childhood home where he suffered embedd racism and homophobia on a daily basis.
Among his motivatns for wrg the book was to reclaim tersectnaly om DeSantis and others on the right who seek to hijack explas: “I wanted to give a human flavour to what tersectnaly actually looks and feels like and what feels like to experience racism and homophobia at the same time. Growg up a nservative majory whe town was difficult bee the same kid who would ll me the N-word on one day would ll me a homophobic slur on another day and I was nstantly navigatg the tersectns of those two thgs.
Last month DeSantis’s mpaign released an anti-LGBTQ+ vio assailg Tmp for his past support of gay and transgenr ments: “It is a sry time to be not jt LGBTQ but LGBTQ and Black this state and ultimately that’s the tent. Stunts may want to seek out the Gay Straight Alliance (GSA) at school, and parents may benef greatly om lookg to the lol PFLAG anizatn. I have had a number of stunts tell me that after my class, they would be okay if one day, they have a child who is gay—this is hugely transformative nsirg that they entered the class admtedly homophobic.