A pretty depressing article from Details

Jerry (not his real name) is an unapologetic Hollywood liberal. He drives a Prius and supports Barack Obama. He's as open-minded about homosexuality as a fortyish heterosexual Little League dad can be. In fact, as someone who's responsible for the day-to-day operations of some of TV's biggest comedies, Jerry might as well be the mayor of Gayberry. "If I'm on a set and there are no gay people, I actually get worried," he says.

Geoff (not his real name) is the same way. A history professor and author in New York City, he is surrounded by a veritable gay army—his editor, his literary agent, his closest confidants ("Gay, gay, way gay," he says)—and that's the way the happily married 42-year-old father, whose idea of heaven is courtside Knicks seats, likes it.

But while Jerry, Geoff, and other progressive dads of their generation are more than happy to down margaritas and watch Project Runway with gay friends, they're not so comfortable with the idea of their own offspring going the way of Dumbledore. And only on the condition of anonymity will they elaborate on why, exactly.

"That," Geoff says after a pained sigh, "would be tricky." He explains that it was worrisome enough when his 6-year-old son watched the Hannah Montana movie recently "with a little too much glee." Jerry too has reckoned with the issue. When his son, now 8, was 3, "he made us buy him a princess costume for Halloween. I thought, Oh, shit. Here we go. But then we went to his friend Joshy's house, and Joshy said, 'You can't dress up as a girl.' At which point my kid threw Joshy to the ground. I thought, Okay, we're gonna be fine."



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I really don't know what to say. It actually gets worse from here. If liberal parents are this way, God help us.

and are constantly being barraged with morbid religious crapola.

However, yes, a lot of these guys probably think it reflects poorly on their on masculinity if a male child is gay. Girls, not so much.

It's weird, it's sick, but it's there. It's all part of the cultural conditioning straight males go through.

...you understand that for many of them they are accepting...up to a point...it's the mentality that yeah, they're discrimnated against, but somehow that discrimination is "different," not so awful like other bigotries.

All parents want their kids to grow up happy, liked, successful, and they want them to have a good, easy life. Being gay is not easy. Being gay means getting bullied and picked on. being gay means having people hate you just for being you. I am sure those liberal parents have heard the story of Matthew Shepard and fear ever being in his parents' shoes. Sure, we also hope those thing go away in the future, but avoiding it all together is just easier.