A further update on the 7 year old boy who crushed on Darren Criss of Glee
He has since told his family he is gay and this column addresses his father's reaction.
http://www.salon.com/2012/03/30/a_father_responds_to_his_gay_7_year_old/
You don’t have to try too hard to find examples of dubious parenting out there: fat-shaming, Easter egg hunt-ruining, book-banning, hate group-hiring parenting. So it’s a pleasure to end this week with a story of parenting gone right, with love and openness and acceptance. This is how it’s done, folks.
The tale began a few months ago, when blogger Amelia penned a column about her then 6-year-old son’s crush on Blaine from “Glee.” She noted how her husband had observed at the time, “So if at 16 he wants to make a big announcement at the dinner table, we can say ‘You told us when you were six.’”
They didn’t have to wait nearly that long. Just last month, Amelia, who has been steadily chronicling her family’s experiences in this new terrain, wrote a piece entitled “When Your 7-Year-Old Son Announces, ‘I’m Gay.’” In it, she reveals how her Blaine-crushing offspring, a child who just a few months earlier had no concept of the word “gay,” had casually come out to her one day, right before bounding off to play with his brothers. “Gay,” he’d said. “I’m gay.”
And what did mom do? She “leaned down to eye level with him and rubbed my nose against his,” and told him, “I love you so much.”
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