How do I explain gay people to my kids?

[WilliamPitt]

[MannyGoldstein]

1. I remember when our son figured out about gay people...

I remember when our son figured out about gay people...

[Newsjock]

2. Alerting over lies about Santa Claus!

Think of the children!

[duhneece]

3. When my daughter was 5 yrs old

...she's now 26, I was Executive Director of Alamogordo Area AIDS Awareness and was surrounded by dozens of gay men, I explained to her this way, "Most women want to marry men; most men want to marry women; some women, like your Aunt Connie don't want to marry anyone (a slight fib, Connie never had anyone propose to her); some men don't want to marry anyone, but some men want to marry men ands some women want to marry women."

Even at 5, she understood that love & marriage went together (well, occasionally!) and she understood marriage (she was flower girl at her sister's wedding when she was 4 yrs old), so that was the easiest way to explain it at that time.

I've never regretted that way..for her.

[Laughing Mirror]

4. Ask them who they are attracted to, boys or girls

If, for example, your son answers girls, you can say, Oh, just wondering, because some boys like boys. If he says boys, maybe he can explain gay people better to you than you can to him.

[Prophet 451]

5. "Some boys love other boys"

I've never understood why conservatives have this impression that you need to explain the intricacies of gay sex to a nine year old. Just say "some boys love other boys" and leave it at that.

[Warren DeMontague]

6. Is this really a problem?

"How am I supposed to explain gay people to my kids"?

Man, im glad I live in a blue state.