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Contents:
- GROWG UP WH A GAY FATHER – CONFSNS OM A STRAIGHT SON
- CONFSNS OF A GAY DAD: GIVG MY BOY A BACK-TO-SCHOOL MAKE-UNR
- HOW I ACCINTALLY FOUND OUT MY DAD IS GAY
- NGHTY GAY STORI 1: SLEEPG WH MY SON'S BT FRIEND
- GAY CONFSNS 2: MY DAD'S FRIEND: A GAY ROMANCE AND EROTIKA SHORT
GROWG UP WH A GAY FATHER – CONFSNS OM A STRAIGHT SON
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 . . . * gay dad confessions *
But I knew he was gay by the time I was 7 or 8.
So this is my story of growg up wh a gay father. Growg up wh a gay father, particularly one who was aaid to e out, prented challeng our abily to get emotnally close. I don’t rell a time when I didn’t know my Dad was gay.
From my earlit memori of my Dad around age 5, I thk I always knew my dad was gay. Th I never had that aha moment of realizg “I have a gay father”! To hear both of them tell , my Dad beg gay wasn’t a factor the spl.
CONFSNS OF A GAY DAD: GIVG MY BOY A BACK-TO-SCHOOL MAKE-UNR
How do a gay dad avoid makg his son too stylish? * gay dad confessions *
How my Dad me to terms wh beg gay. I don’t thk anyone knew yet that my Dad was gay. After all, he was the son of a Baptist Preacher and there would not have been much tolerance the 1940’s or 50’s for him to e out as gay.
In talkg to both of them over the years, they both claim they had no ia my Dad was gay. In retrospect, the fact that he was a cheerlear his bt iend was a male hairdrser (who was openly gay) that my Uncle Buddy nicknamed him “Percy” (which my Dad hated) and that my Dad went on to open a home furnishgs store might have been a clue. Realizg his sexualy and beg a gay father the late 1960s, pecially wh me a long way away, mt have been really transformative for my Dad.
HOW I ACCINTALLY FOUND OUT MY DAD IS GAY
* gay dad confessions *
He lived and around the Oak Lawn area of Dallas (long a predomantly gay or at least gay-iendly neighborhood). He was meetg lots of openly gay people & gog to clubs where was OK to be openly gay. Beg a gay father the 1960s.
My Dad never actually me out as gay to me or to most people. I’d known my Dad is gay for some time, but we’d never discsed . My Dad, of urse, was sistent that no one would obvly know he was gay (which also ma Tom and I lgh).
Are you a gay father stgglg to e out? In Loren’s se, he didn’t e to terms wh beg gay until the age of 40 and was married wh children at the time. How growg up wh a gay father affected me.
NGHTY GAY STORI 1: SLEEPG WH MY SON'S BT FRIEND
I was divorced, horny, and wantg to try somethg new. And I never knew that my son's bt iend would grow up to such a stud. On a mpg trip wh my son and his iend, I would fd out jt how hot and dirty my son's bt iend is. Warng: explic gay sex ahead for mature rears! * gay dad confessions *
The one benef to always knowg I had a gay father is that there was never I time I rell thkg was wrong. I first realized my Dad was gay when I was around 7 or 8, and I have no rellectn of him beg wh my Mom.
Almost all his iends were gay as were most of his employe (those 2 groups pretty much beg the same people). That beg said, I was probably spared a lot of bullyg at school sce no one there knew I had a gay father.
I feel que sure I got lucky this regard and that many kids wh a gay father were picked on for their parent’s sexualy.
GAY CONFSNS 2: MY DAD'S FRIEND: A GAY ROMANCE AND EROTIKA SHORT
How knowg their grandfathers are gay affects my kids.
I’m proud of the fact that I and their mother have raised our dghters to not qutn or judge my Dad or Tom beg gay.
They don’t see him as my “gay father”; jt my father. Our girls simply accept them for who they are, jt as they do all their other fay members who happen to not be gay. I always knew he was gay and never had that “my Dad is gay” aha moment of realizg I had a gay father.