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.
Contents:
- MOM ENURAG GAY 12-YEAR-OLD BOYS' DATE ON ‘A MILLN LTLE THGS’
- COMG OUT AS GAY IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
- IS YOUR CHILD GAY?
- GAY KIDS COMG OUT YOUNGER, BUT PARENTS ASK "HOW DO YOU KNOW?"
MOM ENURAG GAY 12-YEAR-OLD BOYS' DATE ON ‘A MILLN LTLE THGS’
Thursday night, A Milln Ltle Thgs returned—and so did the gay agenda for children. Jt time for Valente’s Day, the episo “The Rock,” featured young Danny gog on his first date—wh a boy. We already knew om one of the first episos that Danny (Chance Hurstfield) is attracted to other boys—somethg his fay has unqutngly enuraged. * gay 12 year old boys *
Thursday night, A Milln Ltle Thgs returned—and so did the gay agenda for children. He do however, talk to his Uncle Gary (Jam Roday) who enuraged him to e out as gay the first place. Hopefully A Milln Ltle Thgs don't take this gay child storyle any further wh A Very Special Episo about the boys' first sexual enunter.
Maybe parents should foc ls on enuragg homosexual sir at such a young age and more on helpg them grow and velop as a young adult.
COMG OUT AS GAY IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
”Dannielle Owens-Reid and Krist Rso, -founrs of Everyone Is Gay and -thors of This Is a Book for Parents of Gay Kids, attribute lower g-out ag to the power of reprentatn. The next generatn is growg up wh gay characters on their televisns, pansexual rappers on their playlists, and queer micro-muni on their Tumblr the change also means that there is a new generatn of fai scramblg to raise LGBT kids who have specific needs and challeng — kids who are growg up a society that, while creasgly LGBT-tolerant, is still plagued by hate crim, job discrimatn, and the more banal, everyday sort of homophobia borne by sual ignorance.
“Beg gay was somethg I never really qutned, ” said Chloe Charbonne, a 12-year-old om Stockbridge, Massachetts. ”Like Kate Ree, Chloe spent early childhood sred and nfed about cshg on girls, pecially after beg lled an anti-gay slur for the first time the fourth gra.
“From then on, I pretend to like boys, bee I thought that [gay] was a wrong thg to be.
IS YOUR CHILD GAY?
They first intified as gay, then, a few months later, also began intifyg as genrls (as a rult, Chloe now prefers “they” and “them” pronouns). Amelia, a Midwtern mother of a 10-year-old boy who first began intifyg as gay when he was 7, said that her son’s unabashed outns tends to startle many adults who would rather not thk about children havg sexual sir. “When they thk of gay people, they thk of sexually active people, ” she said.
”Amelia, through her blog and teractns wh the adults her gay son’s life, tri to battle this stigma. “As a society, if we n open up our ia to what gay means, we n be a lot ls unfortable wh the ia of children intifyg, ” she said. “Maybe he’s not really gay, ” adults have said to Amelia about her hears all the time too.
“Before this current generatn of kids, children weren’t raised wh gay people, ” Amelia said.
GAY KIDS COMG OUT YOUNGER, BUT PARENTS ASK "HOW DO YOU KNOW?"
“They weren’t raised knowg what gay was.
A lot of gay adults say, ‘I knew I was gay when I was krgarten, but I didn’t have the vobulary to scribe what I was. "A lot of gay adults say, ‘I knew I was gay when I was krgarten, but I didn’t have the vobulary to scribe what I was.
”A uple of years ago, when she was 11, Kate cycled through the non-straight possibili before g out to her fay — was she gay? “Consirg how much more fluid the younger generatn is about sexualy, ” she said, “[Informatn about and accs to queer culture] shouldn’t only be ma available to gay intified children — should be [available] to all children.