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The gay personality may be determined during a child’s early years of development or throughout the individual’s life. A lesbian or gay individual like heterosexual individuals are influenced by family, peers, and society. Family structure, social factors, and cognition and conditioning help the development of sexual identity (Kwiatkowski, 2010). The child while living with the parents, adopt many of the customs and values the parents emphasize. The parents may stress the importance of gender roles in the household which the child may learn to

Respondent has realized he is gay and has met a male companion who doesn’t reside with him presently, but someday might. Chastity testified that she feels weird around Respondent’s male companion. Psychologist, Dr.

Client grew up in a conservative and strict southern family in small town in Georgia with socioeconomic statues of average-middle class. Consequently, his childhood consisted of psychological, verbal and emotional abuse by his parents. Client was constantly criticized by his father, client quoted, “I was never good enough for him”. Client was under constant pressure to meet his parents’ standards. However, he never succeeded and was seen as a failure in his parent’s opinion. Client was not able to inform his parents about being Gay which made him isolated and even more distant from them.

Currently the media portrays perfect heterosexual relationships and families. But when do we ever hear about gay parents? School children idolize aspects of the media; so putting the thought that LGBT children are ‘not how they should be’ not only isolates gay children but also supports heterosexist beliefs, that being gay is wrong. Schools need to challenge children’s speculations about children of a different sexual orientation. By being open, everyone benefits.

There is much debate that homosexuality is a developmental problem caused by a weak bond between a father and son during one’s childhood. A failed relationship with one’s father can lead the boy to not fully internalize male gender identity and develop homosexually (Baird & Baird, 1995). Consider the gender development of identity. Infants indentify with their mother who is the first and primary source of nurturance and care. As girls age, they continue to identify mostly with their mother and boys shift towards their father. Through a father-son relationship, masculine identification is attained which is necessary if the boy is to develop a normally masculine personality (i.e. heterosexuality). This development task helps explain why boys have more difficulty than girls in developing gender identity and may also explain the higher ratio of male to female homosexuality (Baird & Baird, 1995). It is important that

That is, he would take on the role as someone who is tough and would not easily cry even if it is against his inner emotions to want to express those feelings. The heterosexual social identity that he is constrained in as a father, urges him to compromise and relay that very same message down to his son, teaching him that boys don't cry. However, a homosexual father figure might be more encouraging towards self expression and tolerant towards deviating from abiding to the social identity of how a father should perform. Therefore, models of adult relationships do not only occur in heterosexual households and they are definitely not the only one that kids growing up today are exposed to. Children growing with homosexual parents are going to view self expression differently than children who grew up in a heterosexual nuclear family. Hence, it is necessary to reconsider the changing of family forms before we overgeneralize family theory onto other family formation

However, because I’m bisexual and I live with my father who is strongly against the LGBTQ community, I haven’t told him about my sexual orientation; though I know how he will treat me afterwards. I first found out about his strong beliefs when I told him about my “different friends” as he called them. In my conclusion, I feel that he was simply raised around people with very biased opinions about this issue, and that these beliefs influenced him. The way people are raised can have a role in how they act as an adult. But, people can also change, and that's the hope I have.

I am the mother of a gay son. My personal quest has become very personal. I am quite literally on a personal journey to explore my thoughts and feelings and to internally and externally process my evolving experience because of one event which occurred just after the beginning of the semester. During dinner, two days before he was headed back to college, my son came out to his dad and me. Now my focus has narrowed and while I need to explore other aspects of diversity, which I plan on doing through my weekly reflections and class participation, I need to understand more about what it means to be the parent of a gay son and to find out what supports or resources are in place for families. I have questions, I have concerns for my son and I am, at this point wrestling with my own feelings. I believe, however, that this exploration will give me a better understanding of the issues facing the LGBTQ community and will equip me to help other families and my future students.

Although today most psychologists agree that parents’ sexual orientation does not affect the well-being of a child, less than 40 years ago, doctors considered

Tommy is very content with the bisexual lifestyle he is living. He seems to not know whether or not he will always be this way. I got a sense from our interview that he wasn’t happy being this way. He begin the express the importance of how being very religious he could not live this type of lifestyle. I would have to agree that the Bible does speak against any type of homosexual behavior. Tommy and I have discussed this issue on more than one occasion. He seems to be confused as to what he really wants. It is a battle for him to be with a woman and be attracted to a man that is in the same company. Tommy at the present lives by himself so he doesn’t feel as if there are any rules he has to live with. He currently resides in the Hollywood area. He is comfortable living this lifestyle and his community contributes to this. Tommy has many friends and he also dates several women.

At work, there is a woman named Izz, who is married to another woman and are in a very happy relationship. They have five kids total from previous relationships and they age from seven to fifth teen. Their kids are well aware of what homosexuality is because they grew up around it. That has not changed their perspective on who they want to date. The teenage girl still dates

Sexual orientation is basically the attraction of one person to another in terms of gender. When deciding whether or not one is straight, gay, or lesbian it is difficult to know who you can trust. Parents feel that teaching about sexual orientation in schools takes away a mother’s and father 's natural rights. When a person’s rights are violated it should not be allowed. Every parent dreads the day they have to have "The Talk," with their pre-teen. At the same time by the end of the conversation they know what has been explained is in the best interest of the child. Parents must be open with children and discuss sexual options from the beginning. They must be able to explain all choices with the child (Gordon). Because most adolescents do not inform their parents of how they feel or what they are doing when it comes

If there was a weak father figure and a strong motherly figure then homosexuality is said to be more common because the child was unable to overcome their ‘Oedipus syndrome.’ Also the certain roles that are given to children at young ages have a common effect on sexuality, whether they follow a male and female stereotype that is. How a child is raised, what they witness and experience as they grow up all come together under the idea that nurture over nature has a bigger influence on a person’s sexuality.

In contrast, the son of the ice-cream-man in the town I grew up in was the product of incest and abuse, but not by the man he called Dad, or necessarily his mother, for that matter. This fact was well hidden from the community by his parents, who were straight, until the abuse was noted by school officials, and the incest was discovered in a resulting paternity test. His biological Father was discovered to be his Grandfather, and his Father who was a paraplegic had no notion of the occurrence. I assert that it would have been better for him to have been under the care of two individuals, gay, or straight, who appreciated the gift he offered them to pursue his best interests.

From a young age I knew that I didn’t have the classic characteristics of boy, No I didn’t like to play catch outside with a football and I absolutely didn’t appreciate being dirty and from right there I knew that I was different. I always found myself internally complementing boys my age and not ever knowing why. One phrase that I will never be able to forget are the words loudly spoken, “ if my son turns out to be gay, I will not only beat the gay out of him but through him out of my house..” At age eight my father very well may have haunted me for a lifetime. Often times after