Share your COLAGEr Experience – Looking for youth and adults who have both LGBTQ and Straight Parents

COLAGE Wants to Hear From You:
Participate in a Survey
Help other Youth and Adults who have a parent coming out
* Were your biological parents married/together before (or even after) one of them came out as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and/or queer (LGBTQ)?
* Do you (or did you) have both one or more straight parent/s and one or more LGBTQ parent/s?
If this is you- please help COLAGE with out new resource for queerspawn in mixed orientation families! The guide will feature tips and resources for COLAGErs who have one or more straight parent/s and one or more LGBTQ parent/s. We hope this will help them navigate homophobia within their families, divorces, going through the coming out process of a parent, and more. Your feedback and experiences will help others who are in your same shoes or are just beginning to feel and experience much of what you did and perhaps still do!
Please answer the following questions in 150 words or less and email your responses to, paulie@colage.org by Monday December 15th. We will include excerpts and quotes from all the completed surveys in the resource guide in order to highlight the diverse voices of our community.
First Name and Last Initial:
Age:
Where do you live?:
Who is in your family?
How and when did you find out that your parent/s is LGBTQ?
Do you remember your initial reactions? Questions? Feelings? What were they?
What is the biggest challenge you have faced because you have one or more LGBTQ parent/s?
Has your straight parent/s been supportive? In what ways?
What type of advice or “words of wisdom” would you pass on to other’s whose family is or has “come out of the closet”?
What would you tell parents who are about to tell their kid/s that they are LGBTQ?
Do you happen to come from a military family/community? If “Yes” how did or does this impact your experience?
*Feel free to include extra comments about your experience, things you wish you had known or other stories that might help another youth or adult in a similar situation:
Thanks so much for helping COLAGE!