I switched it to Parker Lewis and left the room.
Then they finished, and my mom turned to me and said, "I really pity them." Stirring and brave and subversive, coming as it did in a time before marriage equality was on the map, a time when you only saw gay people on the news. We watched as they delivered a rendition of what I remember as "Somewhere Over the Rainbow," because either they or my memory are unforgivably basic. We had no gay people in our lives back then, no way to gauge my family's level of tolerance. And here it was: the most passive, least courageous way I could drag the topic into the family room, kicking and singing. At this time in my life, I was 99 percent certain I was gay, though nowhere near ready to spring it on my parents. I stopped there, just to see what would happen. I paused on our local PBS affiliate, where a huge choir was singing, and after a few seconds I realized it was the Gay Men's Chorus of some city or another doing a fundraising concert. Not much was on: a Murder She Wrote we'd already seen a Parker Lewis Can't Lose she wouldn't have understood probably an actual opera in Italian on A&E or Bravo, because that's actually what those networks used to give you.
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Years ago, when I was not much older than your son, I was at home on a Sunday night flipping through the TV channels with my mother. Here's a story to illustrate what you should definitely not do. You are actively improving your son's quality of life just by thinking about them. I'm not a parent, but I know these are all difficult and necessary things. You're attuned to your kid's developing identity, you're not trying to change him, and you're considering how your words and behavior will affect him down the road. Mark, you are one hell of a father, so first and foremost: thank you. Since your column a couple of weeks ago was advice for coming out to your family, my related question is: What advice do you have for the family of someone who hasn't yet come out? I would love to be able to be more supportive of him, but I certainly am not going to confront him. I can't imagine how much harder or more complicated it must be for him. What's hardest for me as his dad is that I know that this time of life can be confusing and frustrating to any kid, and I only know the experience of a straight guy. He is not out, although I don't know if he might be to any close friends. I have a 17-year-old son, and I am fairly sure he is gay. Something make you anxious this week, or any week? Lay it on me at I'm here to help you minimize the damage you will necessarily inflict on the world just by being alive. Making your way through this cruel, confounding, ever-changing world is difficult.