The real, true story about how parents adopted out their child when he came out as gay [View all]
Early April 2013 a story on social media started immediately “going viral.”
More than 72,000 people shared a story called, “Parents put 16-year-old daughter up for adoption after learning she is gay.” Almost as suddenly as the story had taken off, it halted. Blushing page administrators started removing it quickly as details, such as the family living in “Southern Carolina” pointed to a growing understanding.
The story was fake. It was, in fact, a satire from the site Deacon Tyson Bowers III.
The story was not far fetched.
Writer and LGBT youth advocate Cathy Kristofferson states, “Youth who come out to their parents are rejected by those parents at a rate of 50%, with 26% immediately thrown out of the house to become instantly homeless and many following soon after as a result of the physical and verbal abuse … Empowered by the gains in equality and acceptance with the heightened visibility the adult gay community has welcomed of late, youth are emboldened to come out at ever-younger ages while still reliant on parents who are a flip of the coin away from rejecting them.”
http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2014/03/the-real-true-story-about-how-parents-adopted-out-their-child-when-he-came-out-as-gay/
His story at link.
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