Helping gay teens to be themselves

PARENTING: THE KELLY family had just arrived home from midnight Mass on Christmas Eve in 2005 and were about to have a celebratory drink when 16-year-old Jamie decided the time was right to disclose to his parents that he was gay, writes SHEILA WAYMAN

He told his mother, Vera, first in the kitchen and she quickly called in her husband, Michael, and Jamie told him as well.
“I did get quite upset,” says Jamie, recalling the moment in the company of his parents at home in Firhouse, Dublin, more than three and a half years later.

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