Growing up in a Mexican household and being the single child of my parents relationship, I had many expectation to follow. Growing up and going to school, I was comfortable with my gender, but I knew I was different from other adolescents and teenagers. The expectation of society that all men should be with a women, be strong and emotionless were out of the norm for me because I was attracted to men. During high school and transitioning to college, I felt more comfortable with myself and had the courage to come out as a gay latino male. The article “Experience Regarding Coming out to Parents among African American, Hispanic, White, GLBTQ Adolescent” by Daniel Potoczniak, Margaret Crosbi-Burnett and Nikki Saltzburg explains how adolescents from different backgrounds come out to be gay with different barriers of race, religious belief and family culture. The article states that many hispanic adolescents come out to the extended family first to build a support system (Potoczniak et al.PAGE #). In addition, the extended family the individual comes…show more content… A man in the hispanic culture is supposed to be strong, emotionless, and fearless. In the article “But He Can’t Be Gay: The Relationship between Masculinity and Homophobia in Father Son Relationship” by Jacob Bucher discusses homophobia, the relationship between a gay son and straight father and gay father coming out to a straight son. This interesting fact because the son will be accepts the sexual orientation of his dad but when it comes to father accepting their son as gay individual the father does not accepted the sexual orientation of their offspring. The younger generation is better aware of homosexuals and it's a gender role because when your dad is masculine and strong you expect your child to be a representation of your gender roles as a man but to be strong and
