If you ask me, 'Are you for or against gay parents?' for example, having kids - it's hard for me to say, 'Yes.'
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I know gay parents, and I support them and their families. They are good parents and loving families.
I'm trying to tell kids if they are gay, it's OK to be gay. I've tried to tell families if they have a gay family member to accept them and love them as they always have.
Maybe there are logical reasons for a gay person not to have a great relationship with their parents - not because there's a parent who made him gay, but just because it may be difficult to understand everything.
Just like my straight friends, I am repeatedly asked when I plan to have kids, and have been told many times, by various branches of my bloodline, that 'even lesbians can have babies these days.'
My mother and father could not handle even me being gay. We never talked about it, really.
Somewhere it is written that parents who are critical of other people's children and publicly admit they can do better are asking for it.
If 'gay' is not in your vocabulary, if being gay is not an option in your world, then you're far more likely to see your kid as anything but gay.
I have a lot of LGBT friends and family members and I've always supported the community, not only as a child but as an adult, and I think it's important to voice that.
I'm considered homophobic and crazy about these things and old fashioned. But I think that the family - father, mother, children - is fundamental to our civilisation.
I've always had tremendous support from my parents. I think there's a myth that gay people have lousy relationships with their parents.