Read this father's heartwarming Reddit post about gay son

A single father has thanked users of Reddit for their “overwhelmingly helpful and kind” responses after he sought their advice about how to talk to his son about his sexuality.

The anonymous dad borrowed his 13-year-old son’s iPad and found web searches that suggested he was struggling to speak about his feelings, BuzzFeed reports.

The father decided to get advice from people online, and received a huge response, with people recalling their own experiences.

Read his Reddit post below:

“The other day I asked my son if I could borrow his iPad and he gave it to me.

After my first attempt at Google searching something I noticed that he forgot to delete his history as a lot of the search terms were along the lines of “I’m gay what now?” etc…

I love him regardless of which gender he loves, in fact when I was slightly older than him I had a few flings with guys, which he doesn’t know about, so I am 100% supportive. He has seemed slightly down recently, as in, he isn’t as cheerful as he once was, and I desperately want to tell him that I love him regardless of which sexuality he is.

What are my options? Should I wait for him to tell me? Or should I make a few hints at it?

I’m worried that if I don’t hint at it, that he will be worried about something that he really doesn’t have to be worried about… if that makes sense.”

He went on to explain how he had carefully broached the subject of sexuality with his son, by referencing Apple CEO Tim Cook’s recent comments about being “proud” to be a gay man. He also asked his son if he had any crushes by asking him if there was a “special person” at school.

Later that day, the 13-year-old plucked up the courage to tell his father about his feelings. Read more about their conversation below:

“At the dinner table the same day, while we were eating we had a couple minutes of silence, not much was heard apart from the cutlery and my son finally said ‘I actually wanted to tell you something in the car, but I was afraid you’d get in an accident..’

I looked up from my plate and looked at him straight in the eyes… I could see he was thinking about something and all I could think of was ‘OMG this is it…’

He said: ‘Dad,’ with a couple seconds of silence, ‘I’m gay’.

I looked at him and couldn’t help myself from smiling, and I told him: ‘____, you know I love you so much… right?’ and I got up and gave him a huge hug.

He even started to cry on my shoulder and because of that I couldn’t help myself but shed a couple tears.

We talked for a bit while finishing our dinner about how I can’t emphasise enough that I love him regardless of which gender he loves etc…

After dinner and after he finished his homework we both lay in our pyjamas on the sofa, while I was watching the Cooking Channel and he was playing on his iPad.

I had my arm around him and he was leaning his head on my chest, and all I could think of was that I’m the happiest father on earth right now.”

Earlier this year, an upsetting video of a man coming out to his homophobic family went viral – read more here.

Read this father’s heartwarming Reddit post about gay son

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