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- From: black@lester.sybase.com (Chris Black)
- Newsgroups: soc.motss
- Subject: Re: Homosexuals raising children
- Message-ID: <25848@sybase.sybase.com>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 19:30:06 GMT
- References: <BxL5vL.BH4@aplcenmp.apl.jhu.edu> <BxM8Cz.Jp0@scd.hp.com>
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- In article <BxM8Cz.Jp0@scd.hp.com>, mdrayton@sr.hp.com (Mike Drayton) writes:
-
- |> I finally said "I'm gay" to my 9-year-old son, after a few years of
- |> beating around the bush talking about having a "very close
- |> relationship with Bill", and "being partners with Bill, just like
- |> I used to be partners with your Mom." I hoped I was getting something
- |> across with the latter two, but now I'm not so sure, because when I
- |> said "I'm gay", my son immediately started to try to find ways to deny
- |> it. I think he's gotten the idea real clearly from his peers that
- |> gay = bad.
-
- One thing you should be aware of (we should all be aware of; it's
- pretty horrible) is that a lot of kids today use "gay" as an all-purpose
- synonym for "bad". They'll say "that's so gay" in a situation where I
- and my friends in our youth might have said "that's so stupid". So
- maybe it's partly about the associations the word has in his circle.
-
- Best wishes in your ongoing coming-out process.
-
- -- Chris
- black@sybase.com
-