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What is the best way to deal with your son’s homosexuality?
Alphonse and I always knew that our son was gay. When he was young he liked bathing with his brother, he likes to entertain people reproducing his favorite Broadway shows (Hello Dolly, Mame, and Bye Bye Birdie), he also enjoys singing the libretto from Mozart’s Don Giovanni. He always tells his grandparents that his dream is to do a command performance for the Queen of England of the HMS Pinafore at the Royal Albert Hall in London.
We were planning on giving him a coming out party at the Venetian here in Las Vegas because it is his favorite venue. He’s quite precocious for a ten year old because he wants to bring his boyfriend and also lead the singing. Are we wrong to encourage him?
You want to give him a coming out party? I’ve never heard of such thing. First of all, it’s not up to you to let others know of your son’s sexual orientation. That is for him to do. If he wants to perform, that’s fine, but what you want to do is quite odd. And I don’t know of any parent, of a gay or straight child, that would let them have a boyfriend or girlfriend at the age of 10. Your job as a parent is to educate your son of the risks of having unprotected sex, etc. just like any other parent, not to give him a coming out party. And who am I to say this? My son is gay too, though he’s 18, and I would never dream of doing something like what you’re thinking of. And if this question is fake, like it probably is, stick with asking questions that are real.
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