Tag: Parents
Single Gay Parenting: A Journey to Fatherhood: Love & Resilience
This moving story follows a single gay parent’s journey to fatherhood in South Africa. Through hardship, prejudice, and healing, one man and his adopted son built a life rooted in love, trust, and resilience. Their bond proves that it’s not biology, but love, that defines a true family.
Marc-Antony’s Coming Out Story
Born into a family whose heritage demanded sons follow traditional paths, I spent 20 years in an iron-wrought closet. Life was, as I’d describe it, ‘quite fucked up.’ Coming out meant choosing between living my truth and meeting generational expectations.
Top 10 thoughts of a parent of a gay child
So you have just found that your son (daughter) is gay. Perhaps he was brave enough to come out and tell you, or perhaps you found out by some other means. These are my views on the top 10 questions or thoughts you might have as a parent to a gay child.
Being rejected by your family for being gay
Christmas is a happy time, but it is also one of the saddest times. Some gay people will be alone because their family have rejected them for being gay. It saddens and sickens me, and I cannot even begin to imagine what that must feel like. How can a family do this to one of…
Homophobia: how to deal with homophobia
We are all likely to face homophobia in some form during our lives, and we need to be able to deal with it. There a number of types of homophobia from various sources. Religious, ignorance, internal and family homophobia are some examples discussed. The thing that hurts me the most is that they truly believe…
