Conversations I don't want to have with my gay son (an article about how are we have to go)

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/Amelia/conversations-i-dont-want-to-have-with-my-son_b_1884723.html?utm_hp_ref=gay-voices

I think every parent has those discussions they don't want to have with their children. There are definitely a few I'm not looking forward to. Like the conversation we'll have to have the day one of our "friends" gets a big mouth and tells our kids the story how my husband and I really met. Or the one we'll have to have when my father starts telling stories of what I was actually like as a teenager. Or the ones we'll have to have about more serious things, like why my mother isn't a part of our lives. Now that my oldest son, at 7 years old, identifies as gay, I find myself facing a whole new set of things I just don't want to say to him.

"Baby, your blood isn't good enough."

In this country it is still illegal for gay men to give blood. And there will come the day that I will have to explain to my son that his blood is considered too risky, too likely diseased (despite his personal health) to be used to save lives. That if one day someone he loves, like his father, one of his little brothers, or me, is an accident and the family is asked to donate blood, he must stay behind.

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1. kick

[hughee99]

2. Hopefully, by the time he's old enough to donate blood,

that will have changed. Although hopefully, no one he knows will ever need it, but that's hoping for a lot. Good luck and best wishes.

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3. kick