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Share Your Parent Story – It’s Anonymous

Share Your Parent Story – It’s Anonymous

Strong Family Alliance seeks to share stories that illustrate the wide variety of experiences families and LGBTQ youth experience, so other parents will know they’re not alone in their journey. All content is anonymous and voluntary. We may use quotes or content from your story as we work to help LGBTQ and their families.

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Your Experience
Briefly describe how your child first came out to you and your initial reactions.
What concerns did you experience over the first weeks or months? How did you deal with them?
Has your child come out to other family members over time?
If yes, who, when, and what was their reaction?

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What You Can Share
What is the hardest thing about knowing their LGBTQ identity?
What are some challenges have you faced concerning your LGBTQ child? How did you deal with these?
What is the best thing about knowing your child's LGBTQ identity?
Knowing what you know today, would you want your child to “stay in the closet”? Why?
What would you say to other parents learning the LGBTQ identity of their child?
What would you say to youth coming out to their families?

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Background
The information below will help visitors search for stories that parallel their family situation, e.g., "father of lesbian daughter"
What is your child's LGBTQ identity?
- Lesbian (female)
- Gay (male)
- Bisexual
- Transgender
- Queer/Questioning
- Other
If Other, please explain.
How are you related?
If Other, please explain.
How old was your child when they came out to you?
How old are they now?
Where do you live?
If Other, where?
If United States, in what state do you live?
What is the population of your city?

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I give permission to quote my story anonymously.
We need your agreement before quoting any portion of your responses. If you prefer not to agree, feel free to take the survey anyway -- we won't use the content but it might be helpful to you as you think about your family.

Please note, we will refer to you only with general information (e.g., a father of a lesbian daughter in Colorado).

Are you comfortable with the Strong Family Alliance using content from your survey on our website and related materials?
- Yes
- No
Optional: Please provide your email address - to be used only if we need clarification for quotes/excerpts.
Would you like to be added to our email list? We may send periodic articles or information of interest to you.
Choose a nickname. (Remember: it's anonymous.)

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Your Experience

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What You Can Share

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Background

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