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- THIS IS HOW I REALLY REACTED WHEN MY SON TOLD ME HE WAS GAY
- ‘MOM, I’M GAY.’ I WAS CRYG SO LOUDLY. ‘SO WHAT? YOU’RE MY SON. NOTHG IS GOG TO CHANGE.’: MAN LOS MOTHER TO HEART ATTACK, WISH HE ‘THANKED HER FOR HER WORDS’
THIS IS HOW I REALLY REACTED WHEN MY SON TOLD ME HE WAS GAY
“I’m gay. I have had gay iends (and been eply hurt and disappoted when beme obv. He never wanted to be gay.
To iends of me who may have gay children, or be gay themselv, please five me for my ignorance. I don’t know if I’ll ever be “okay” wh the gay liftyle, but right now, I am okay wh my son beg gay, and right now, that is all that matters.
What would you do if your child told you they were gay? Many of the straight parents I terviewed for When Your Child Is Gay: What You Need To Know exprsed havg felt disappotment learng that their child was LGBT.
‘MOM, I’M GAY.’ I WAS CRYG SO LOUDLY. ‘SO WHAT? YOU’RE MY SON. NOTHG IS GOG TO CHANGE.’: MAN LOS MOTHER TO HEART ATTACK, WISH HE ‘THANKED HER FOR HER WORDS’
Would he be fired at his job if his supervisors found out that he were gay? Would he have to live a gay-iendly neighborhood?
Natalie, 63, a mother om Long Island, found out that two of her three children were gay. " Natalie felt that was a loss to the fay geic pool and kept wonrg if beg gay was a choice.
Richard Ogawa of Seattle figured out he was gay llege. Richard told me, "Perhaps if every parent toyed wh the possibily that any of their children uld be gay, would change the way they raise their children.