Stgglg wh gay shame? Watch this blog to learn how to move past shame and live thentilly the LGBTQ muny!
Contents:
- HOW TO OVERE FEELGS OF SHAME AROUND BEG GAY
- LIVG AUTHENTILLY THE LGBTQ COMMUNY: HOW TO MOVE PAST “GAY SHAME” [VIO]
- OVERG THE SHAME OF BEG GAY
HOW TO OVERE FEELGS OF SHAME AROUND BEG GAY
I remember that when I disvered that my son was gay, I felt shame. Bee of society's expectatns that everyone should live a bary world, I envisned that havg a gay child uld be looked upon as a stigma. I didn't like the posn that I was thst to once I found out my son was gay.
Acrdg to psychiatrist Jonathan Tobk, -thor of my book, When Your Child Is Gay, "guilt tends to be limed to an actn that we have taken or not taken, whereas shame is a pervasive negative emotn about how we feel overall. A straight parent, Dorothy spected that her son Kev was gay and tried to redirect him. Once ashamed of havg a gay son, now Dorothy refers gay people the muny to her ntal office, where she is a ntal hygienist.
LIVG AUTHENTILLY THE LGBTQ COMMUNY: HOW TO MOVE PAST “GAY SHAME” [VIO]
The ntist's office is known as "the office of the gay muny" bee of Dorothy's support. Siarly, Jab Thomas, origally om Northern Geia, was ashamed of beg gay.
"Gay and lbian children should not only get the msage that they are loved, but also that they are not damaged or ls than. Parents should not thk that havg a gay child or beg gay is somewhat unsirable or ferr.
If you are worried about how others will treat you bee you have a gay child, you need to reexame the nature and strength of your relatnship the same way you would tell your child to do if one of her iends sudnly rejected her upon fdg out she was gay. Parents don't e their child to be gay so they shouldn't blame themselv. 14 Ways To Defeat Your Fears of Beg Gay.
OVERG THE SHAME OF BEG GAY
There are many gay men who say "I'm not part of the scene" -- men who hate gay bars and, prumably, crowds of queer people general. Internalized homophobia -- self-shamg, self-hatred -- leads many gay men, and many queer people general, to recreate their closets long after they're "out" by shunng others, particularly those they nsir "flamboyant. " Y, there are some good reasons to rce your participatn gay bars (time, money, health).