Is My Son Gay or Is a Phase? | Psychology Today

Contents:

• RAPPER BLUEFACE ACC HIS 6-YEAR-OLD SON OF BEG GAY BEE HE IGNORED WOMEN DANCG BIKIS
• WATCH KKD’S GAY SON LEAD LGBTQ+ PROTT LONDON
• HOW TO TELL IF YOUR SON IS GAY
• IRS 'WHISTLEBLOWER X,' A GAY DEMOCRAT, REVEALS INTY AND TELLS CONGRS HE WAS BLOCKED OM INVTIGATG HUNTER BIN
• A GAY COUPLE'S FIGHT FOR THEIR TW SON'S CIZENSHIP INSPIR
• I NNOT AL WH FACT MY SON IS GAY
• WALL STREET CEOS OPEN UP ABOUT THEIR GAY SONS
• I TRIED TO STOP MY SON FROM BEG GAY. I WISH I HADN'T
• PARENTS OF GAY CHILDREN AND THE ISSU THEY FACE
• IS MY SON GAY OR IS A PHASE?
• MATTHEW GONG, GAY MORMON, REFLECTS ON HIS JOURNEY OM NER WAR TO NER PEACE
• MY SON IS GAY
• IS YOUR CHILD GAY?
• MY SON MIGHT BE GAY. WHAT SHOULD I SAY TO HIM?

RAPPER BLUEFACE ACC HIS 6-YEAR-OLD SON OF BEG GAY BEE HE IGNORED WOMEN DANCG BIKIS

Meanwhile, plenty of Twter ers fend the rapper’s homophobia.

WATCH KKD’S GAY SON LEAD LGBTQ+ PROTT LONDON

No rponsible human beg wants their child to be a homosexual Blue face did nothg wrong— GroovePapi? (@groovepapi) July 7, 2023.

Over the years, Magic and Cookie have been open about their rponsibili as parents — like when Magic told Ellen DeGener that he was "so happy" when their son EJ me out as gay. EJ publicly me out as gay 2013, though he me out to his fay several years earlier. In 2014, EJ told PEOPLE that, although his parents "pretty much already knew" that he was gay, they were worried about the public's reactn.

Play vioKwaku Darkwah Kyei-Darkwah me out as gay November 2017.

HOW TO TELL IF YOUR SON IS GAY

Darkwah Kyei-Darkwah me out as gay November 2017 a publitn by the digal magaze. Notg the difficulty g out as gay, the son of the celebrated Ghanaian broadster said he had gone past that stage and felt no need to nform to anyone’s standards terms of his sexualy. He was featured on the webse alongsi other gay mols wh Ain backgrounds, discsg the issu they face as queer people of lor.

Ngay từ phân đoạn đầu tiên, Mono và nhân vật nữ đứng đối diện nh trong một n phố còn ướt mưa. There's a new Android app out (here's the English versn) lled "Is My Son Gay?

IRS 'WHISTLEBLOWER X,' A GAY DEMOCRAT, REVEALS INTY AND TELLS CONGRS HE WAS BLOCKED OM INVTIGATG HUNTER BIN

So below I've provid a better list of ways to tell if your son is a gay person who is you e home om work and you hear nois upstairs and you go up to vtigate and your son's door is open and you tch him "hookg up" (as kids ll today) wh his iend Michael, and you quickly turn around and walk back downstairs and later that night over dner you say "You know, honey, if there's ever anythg you need to tell me... " and he says "Mom, I'm gay, " then your son is your son has recently gone to llege and hasn't been touch much and you figure hey he's new to llege, he's by makg iends and whatnot, and then late one night he lls you on the phone soundg upset about somethg and you ask him what's wrong and he's quiet for a while and then says "Nothg's wrong, really, I'm jt... Dad, I'm gay, " then your son is your son ever been on a long drive to one of your dghter's swim meets wh you and when stopped at a red light he's turned to you and said "Mom, I feel like I owe to you and dad to tell you that, well, Donald is my boyiend.

Chanc are that if you are on your athbed and your tranged son to vis you the middle of a ray night and he ss by your bed quietly until he begs to cry and clutch your hand and says "I wish I'd told you sooner that I'm gay" and then you both stay there silence, you pretendg to be asleep, the only noise the beepg of the mach that will only keep you alive for a ltle while longer, your son is you and your spoe are ever visg your son the big cy he now liv wh all his fancy iends and fancy rtrants and you're out to an awkward lunch before your tra home and you three get to another potls fight about years-old stuff and 's really unfortable and fally you or your spoe says "Well, if you'd jt settle down wh the right girl, I thk-" and then your son terpts you by yellg "Guys, I'm GAY.

" and then you lgh and ms his hair and the livg room your hband shows your son's boyiend his mol ships, then your son is probably gay, though he might be bisexual, so be reful about your son ever says "Oh my goodns, " when surprised or when openg a gift, well then yeah, he probably gay. As I relayed When Your Child Is Gay: What You Need To Know (Sterlg, 2016), I found out that my son was gay om a note wh our son's name entwed wh another boy's, surround by a heart. Had I asked him if he were gay when he was 13, he probably would have fensively said "No!

A GAY COUPLE'S FIGHT FOR THEIR TW SON'S CIZENSHIP INSPIR

San Berland, the mother of a gay son who ach parents of LGBTQ kids, utn, "It's not a good ia to ask. Acrdg to my -thor, psychiatrist Jonathan Tobk, "Gay children feel credibly vulnerable when g out to their parents, and tak time to work up the urage to do this.

Watch gay-themed shows together such as "The Fosters" and "Will and Grace. In a way, you have an advantage by not knowg; giv you more time to prepare for the day (if ever) when he do reveal he's gay. Joe Ziegler, a special agent wh the tax agency for 13 years, scribed himself as a "gay Democrat married to a man" and said he cid to e forward spe his personal polics bee he believ "no one should be above the law regardls of your polil affiliatn.

I NNOT AL WH FACT MY SON IS GAY

"I equate this to the experience and feelgs I enuntered when g out [as gay], " said Ziegler.

I was ptivated by this se, which bed timely them of gay marriage, egg donatn, surrogacy, twship, and fay. The rult is a book, Gay Fathers, Tw Sons: The Cizenship Case That Captured the World, to be released on Augt 8.

WALL STREET CEOS OPEN UP ABOUT THEIR GAY SONS

Gay Fathers, Tw Sons: The Cizenship Case That Captured the World. Qutn: TWO months ago my son Gav, 29, announced that he is gay.

He me home one weekend to expla to me and my hband that he has been livg wh his partner for three months and has known he was gay sce he was 17. UPSET: Mary n't e to terms wh the fact that her son is gay / pic posed by molsI was vastated and me as a shock bee Gav has the past brought girliends home to meet .

Mary, 57, SheffieldAnswer:DEBORAH SAYS:How do you e to terms wh the news your son is gay? You have to let them parents fd hard to accept their child is gay. Perhaps is ls difficult than once was bee there is ls secrecy and ls opprobrium surroundg homosexualy but is still hard bee upsets all your expectatns about your mt have been very difficult for Gav to e home and tell you this.

I TRIED TO STOP MY SON FROM BEG GAY. I WISH I HADN'T

Of urse you wouldn’ you n’t “e to terms” wh homosexualy you n’t e to terms wh him. In the "boy's club" of Wall Street, some top executiv' views on gay rights changed entirely when the issue beme personal. When he was CEO of Man Stanley (MS) and Cred Suisse First Boston (CS), John Mack was known for his progrsive views on lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr equaly.

"I had strong views of beg anti-gay, " Mack said this month at a nference hosted by Out on the Street, an anizatn that helps firms rec and reta LGBT talent. Throughout high school, Stephen said he didn't know he was gay.

PARENTS OF GAY CHILDREN AND THE ISSU THEY FACE

And the views of the people at the top are often shaped by simply knowg someone who is gay.

IS MY SON GAY OR IS A PHASE?

Grandfatherhood, " hedge fund billnaire Pl Sger said about his son Andrew when he first realized he was gay.

MATTHEW GONG, GAY MORMON, REFLECTS ON HIS JOURNEY OM NER WAR TO NER PEACE

One night 1998, when he and Andrew were at dner, Andrew started askg Sger about his "views on homosexualy. " The qutns were asked such a way that Sger began to wonr whether his son uld be gay.

The next day, "[Andrew] was walkg the door, and right there, [I said], 'Are you gay? By now u probably have an ia of what i am about to I am gayRyan: i n’t believe i jt told youMom: Are you jokg?

Ryan: i know i amRyan: i don’t like hannahRyan: ’s jt a ver-upMom: but that don’t make you gay…Ryan: i knowRyan: but u don’t unrstandRyan: i am gayMom: tell me moreRyan: ’s jt the way i am and ’s somethg i knowRyan: u r not a lbian and u know that. Ryan: i am jt gayRyan: i am thatMom: I love you no matter whatRyan: i am whe not blackRyan: i knowRyan: i am a boy not a girlRyan: i am attracted to boys not girlsRyan: u know that about yourself and i know thisMom: what about what God thks about actg on the sir?

MY SON IS GAY

Not that we didn’t know and love gay people — my only brother had e out to several years before, and we adored him. Your inty is not that you are gay — is that you are a child of love you.

He read all the Christian books that explaed where his gay feelgs me om and dove to unselg to further disver the orig of his unwanted attractn to other guys.

IS YOUR CHILD GAY?

And we lost the abily to love our gay son, bee we no longer had a gay son. What we had wished, prayed and hoped for — that we would not have a gay son — me te. But not at all the way we had, when I thk back on the fear that erned all my reactns durg those first six years after Ryan told he was gay, I crge as I realize how foolish I was.

Now, whenever Rob and I jo our gay iends for an eveng, I thk about how much I would love to be visg wh Ryan and his partner over dner. Parents of gay children may be shocked when their kids e out of the closet, but once the dt settl, most parents realize that their child is the same one they have loved and red for all their liv, they jt happen to be gay.

And while parental acceptance is one hurdle for a gay child, there are many other issu facg gay kids and their parents. Issu for parents of gay kids as intified by Parents, Fai and Friends of Lbians and Gays (PFLAG), clu:1.

MY SON MIGHT BE GAY. WHAT SHOULD I SAY TO HIM?

Fay acceptance – n the rt of the fay accept the gay child as the parents of the gay child has. Hate crim preventn – workg to prevent gay bashg and other forms of hate crim agast gay kids. Health – addrsg the health ncerns of gay kids as they e to adulthood.

Relatnship regnn – workg to achieve equal rights and regnn for gay relatnships as for heterosexual relatnships. Safe schools – parents of gay children ensurg a safe learng environment. Workplace fairns – supportg the gay child and any issu they face when enterg the workforce.

Sometim, long before a child out as gay, a parent spects that a child might be gay.