Yes I have a Son who is Gay. Also a brother and cousin both gay.
I have no problems with this.As they are all family and we love them all very much. My son is 30. But he told us about 17 years ago. But I picked it before that. Due to growing up with my younger brother. Bringing up my son was like seeing my brother grow up all over again.
I would like to hear from others with gay children. Or anyone else who wish to make a comment.

Hi Wangas, so glad to read your comments about your son, brother and cousin, what a loving and understanding person you are, this world could do with more people like you, bless you. I have a 27 yr old grand-daughter who is gay, she didn't come out until she was 15. It was after she broke off with her first ever boy-friend at 15 that she told her mother, but somehow it was no surprise to me. I adored her tom-boyish ways, her open attitude, the way she dressed, her changing hair-styles and her sense of humour, her choice of music and most of all how she never forgets to tell me how much she loves me. Then one day she brought a girl home and told me that she was her girl-friend, as in lover,as in some-one she wanted to spend the rest of her life with and that one day they would marry.....I cried , because I thought I was losing my grand-daughter for-ever, until she held me in her arms and said, 'Love me as you always have Nan, I am still the same person you know.'....It was the words 'you know' that made me realise that there are things that God has gifted us that like Him will never change.

i too have a son who is gay, he is a lovely young man with a heart of gold,whom we love very much,he is the youngest of 4, and all his siblings have accepted him.just as he is. we cant change how they are made up and i wouldnt want to.all our children are precious gifts and i know from mine,. that they are all individuals in there own right. i believe they are born that way[gay] and dont chose it as a way of life, its just the way they are made up.i woulnt want to swap him for anything!!!!!!

Dennis & I have been Gay all our lives Im originally from England & Dennis is a Kiwi I moved to Hastings in 2002 & when it became legal we had a civil union at the local anglican chapel.
Both lots of our families are fully excepting of us its really Great.
We love this group have made some really nice Friends.

Cheers Grahame & Dennis

good on you grahame my son asked me the other week if i would be ok if he had a civil union, and as i said to him that i just want him to be happy and a civil union is not to be taking lightly, i told him it has absolutely nothing to do with being gay, but all to do with being ready for a total commitment,[hes only 21] but we are right behind him. i think that all couples regardless of sexuality have the right to the sacredness of a marital committment. he seems to be very happy with his patner who we all think is lovely.after all lifes too short for regrets we all should live every day like its our last and always tell our partners we love them everyday.too.
CHEERS
YVONNE

I have family and friends who are gay. I never see them as being any different. I judge my friends on how they treat me not what they do in their private lives.

One guy I worked with, knowing that I was Christian, asked me if I had a problem with him being gay. I told him I couldn't care less and as long as he respected me I would respect him.

He went on to tell me that he only asked `because being gay saw him having to deal with a lot of prejudice'. I told him that being a single, middle aged, fat woman had its own problems and not to sweat it!

I have a family member who is gay and he has only told a select few people. He has sworn them to secrecy because he knows that older members of the family wouldn't understand or have openly said derogatory things about homosexuals in the past.

It must be hard to have to live a lie or put up with prejudice but that's life. Probably, it will be another generation or two before society accepts `gay' as being `normal'. That's if it ever does.

I truly believe that if we were all to become one race of gay, coffee coloured people in the future, you can guarantee that by lunchtime we would be divided over something. That's human's for you!

oh my gosh you are so right, but after coming out my son has settled in life and is definitely a much happier person,it must have been a huge burden for him to pretend to be something he wasnt. we are so proud of him and his whole family supports him.

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