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Advice to Parents on Raising a Happy and Healthy LGBTQ Child

By Steven Petrow — 2020

When many LGBTQ people look back on their childhood, we remember a mixture of confusingly feeling different; being harassed for our sexual identities; and realizing how important our parents, teachers and other authority figures were in either helping us through those years—or making our lives worse. 

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