I 48 M am bi, back when I was young I never explored the homosexual side of things. It remained a dark seven of mine for most of my life. This was the byproduct of my upbringing. At 20 I met a very nice caring woman and fell in love. She is the only person I felt comfortable enough to tell me and she never treat me any different. We got married (monogamous and very happy) and built a nice little family, two daughters and a son.

Now even with my upbringing I could never hate queer people. I understood the pain and confusion people like us went through so I made a point to be a support for any of my friends/family brave enough to live freely (something I didn't have the courage for).

My wife and I have tried to teach our children the same values and our two daughters have made me very proud. They are always respectful and kind to everyone. My son on the other hand fell in with the wrong crowd. The whole YouTube rabbit hole of hatered and toxicity. He started to make comments here and there about race, gender, and other things and I tried to tell him it's inappropriate, and punish him but it didn't worked. With time he grew more isolated and tbh I couldn't bare to talk to him either, he was becoming everything I despised as a kid. One if the worst incidents was we were called to the school because my son wrote the f* slur on a gay students bag pack turns out he had been bullying him for a long time. It made me snap, "well Jimmy your father is a f* too! Go on say the same things to me you said to nathan (both fake names)" and all he had in response was "Ew dad no your not why are defending this f*". At that point I gave up. I don't him around me anymore. He is about to graduate highschool soon and I don't know If I ever want to see him again. I want him out of life I feel like I raised a monster. But isn't it wrong to do that to a child. How is this any different from people abandoning their gay kids.

(Disclaimer, this is a hypothetical scenario, i.e. not true, but please pretend it is)