For many parents, the dawning realisation – or sudden news – that your son or daughter is gay, lesbian or bisexual can at first be hard to comprehend.

Parents don’t often think about whether their own children are attracted to someone of the same sex – and as Ian Glascott from Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays Victoria (PFLAG) explains, discovering your son or daughter is homosexual can be very difficult for parents, for the son or daughter, and for other family members.

“When you find out, you don’t know where to turn,” he says. “You think: what sort of life are they going to have; how is it going to affect them? You think about yourself: I’m not going to have grandkids; there’s going to be no wedding; how am I going to tell the family?”

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