Anonymous
07/15/2018 11:19
Subject: Re:I'm a gay teenager, Ask Me Anything
I am a huge Beezus and Ramona fan, PP! So we might have to fight this one out....
Anonymous
07/15/2018 11:18
Subject: Re:I'm a gay teenager, Ask Me Anything
Agreed, this is pretty typical conversation people would have by and about my two teens, one of whom is a boy, one a girl. "Is he taking anyone to the dance? Are there any cute boys in her school?" Its very casual talk but feels less casual if one of my kids is gay (which they are). Then it becomes an uncomfortable moment for 3 seconds. Most people are just surprised, not openly unaccepting or overly curious. I appreciate that.
Anonymous
07/15/2018 11:12
Subject: I'm a gay teenager, Ask Me Anything
Anonymous wrote:
Are you telling me that your friends or neighbors or colleagues asking your 12-14 years old about boy friend or girlfriend? How often did this happened? I am raising three kids between middle school and college age. No one ever asked me about their boyfriends/girlfriends other than two of my closest friends. And even with them, I would not discuss my kid's sexual orientation. It is not that I am not accepting or ashamed that my kids are straight, it is because it is not appropriate subject for discussion.
Honestly, PP, it's actually pretty common for adults who are close to our family to casually inquire about DD's social experiences (she's 14), including silly things like whether she has a bf or if there are "any boys who have caught her eye"...as a way of being chatty with her as a follow up to "how's school going?" and I know they don't mean to pry into something that is very personal and private. It's just that she is of that age where they remember having their first crushes and such and are trying to relate. I just know it hasn't occurred to them that her answer might be "no, but there are a few girls that have"
This isn't her flaunting it. It's just her answering the question. And it can come up very innocuously. Just as innocuously as you remarking that Brad Pitt looks hot. Only my daughter might look at a movie poster and say the same about Selena Gomez.
Selena Gomez on a movie poster?? But her movies are terrible! 
Anonymous
07/15/2018 11:09
Subject: I'm a gay teenager, Ask Me Anything
Are you telling me that your friends or neighbors or colleagues asking your 12-14 years old about boy friend or girlfriend? How often did this happened? I am raising three kids between middle school and college age. No one ever asked me about their boyfriends/girlfriends other than two of my closest friends. And even with them, I would not discuss my kid's sexual orientation. It is not that I am not accepting or ashamed that my kids are straight, it is because it is not appropriate subject for discussion.
Honestly, PP, it's actually pretty common for adults who are close to our family to casually inquire about DD's social experiences (she's 14), including silly things like whether she has a bf or if there are "any boys who have caught her eye"...as a way of being chatty with her as a follow up to "how's school going?" and I know they don't mean to pry into something that is very personal and private. It's just that she is of that age where they remember having their first crushes and such and are trying to relate. I just know it hasn't occurred to them that her answer might be "no, but there are a few girls that have"
This isn't her flaunting it. It's just her answering the question. And it can come up very innocuously. Just as innocuously as you remarking that Brad Pitt looks hot. Only my daughter might look at a movie poster and say the same about Selena Gomez.