Growg up wh a gay father created challeng for both my Dad & I. His journey out of the Bible Belt & closet was not easy. Most importantly though . . .
Contents:
- HOW I ACCINTALLY FOUND OUT MY DAD IS GAY
- THE GAY FATHER I NEVER KNEW
- GROWG UP WH A GAY FATHER – CONFSNS OM A STRAIGHT SON
- IS YOUR DAD GAY—OR ARE YOU A GAY DAD?
HOW I ACCINTALLY FOUND OUT MY DAD IS GAY
My brother picked up the word for "gay" – a word my dad repeated several tim durg that that pot, my parents had told they had problems their marriage, but a few months later, when I was around ne years old, we still went on our annual fay summer holiday to France.
Until, out of nowhere, my brother sudnly asked, "Dad, are you gay?
"There aren't a lot of gay people out there wh a wife and children, " he told me. I once tagged along wh him to his favoure gay bar, where I met all the iends he's ma there over the years. I also knew that my dad mt be gay—bee, well, of urse.
THE GAY FATHER I NEVER KNEW
While I’d never met an out gay man, I kd of knew what they were supposed to be like om movi and TV, and Dad f the mold: He loved to ok; he cleaned obssively; he kept the Internatnal Male talog around, bee, he said, “I like the cloth. “You know, ” I said to Dad, “I asked Mom once if you were gay.
GROWG UP WH A GAY FATHER – CONFSNS OM A STRAIGHT SON
“Gay?
IS YOUR DAD GAY—OR ARE YOU A GAY DAD?
“I’m not gay. ” she’d said our kchen—after a long nversatn she’d had wh an openly gay iend om llege, Pat, who had, apparently, been a nfidant of Dad’s.