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Contents:
- AM I GAY? QUIZ - FOR MIDDLE-SCHOOL KIDS ?❤️??
- COMG OUT AS GAY IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
- A DIFFERENT KD OF "AM I GAY"? QUIZ FOR HIGH SCHOOL TEENS - TT
AM I GAY? QUIZ - FOR MIDDLE-SCHOOL KIDS ?❤️??
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”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.
COMG OUT AS GAY IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
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“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.
A DIFFERENT KD OF "AM I GAY"? QUIZ FOR HIGH SCHOOL TEENS - TT
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.