Growing Up Gay (photos)

Trent, aged 4
Trent, Age 4, 1976: "Growing up Southern Baptist, I was taught that being gay was bad. My mom thought gay people were mythical beings, 'like werewolves of vampires,' she once said. One time at dinner, when my parents found out that I went to a drag show with my then-girlfriend, my father told me he used to go to gay clubs to 'beat the shit out of fags.'"


Marco, aged 6
1961: "This photo was taken at a cafe in an Italian spa town. My mom, dad, brother and I all sat down in these modern 1960s chrome chairs: however, I was the only one who crossed my legs in such a flirtatious way! As children, we almost never censor ourselves."


Clarissa, aged 4
1973: "I always wanted to be tough and dirty, and I would go to work with my dad the mechanic. My mom found a way to get me to wear dresses by making them herself, patterning them after Lucy Van Pelt of the Peanuts cartoon: I acknowledged Lucy's toughness, and I felt tough in those dresses, too."
http://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/books/2012/10/09/photos-growing-gay#slide-

Such innocence.....