Way Out Parenting: You’re about to be a parent. There’s just one problem. You forgot to come out to your family…Now what???

Way Out Parent — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:49:56 -0700

Gay people, like all others, have a knack for putting the cart before the horse. Very few of us actually think about the consequences of our actions. Where’s the fun in that, after all? While you were serving coffee to your adoption social worker and thinking “Does she like us? Will we pass the test?” or lying knees up after your insemination praying “Dear God, please let this be the month because I’m afraid my girlfriend won’t stick with this much longer,” you forgot to consider that five months ahead was Christmas and at Christmas time you always fly home to Nebraska to visit your parents, your twelve aunts and uncles, and scores of cousins, none of whom even know you are gay.

Since the Stonewall Riots of 1969, gays have been declaring their right to live openly and proudly in greater and greater numbers. And through the decades, certain coming-out-to-parent patterns and rituals have become established within the gay community. We now know definitively,

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Way Out Parenting: You’re about to be a parent. There’s just one problem. You forgot to come out to your family…Now what???