Homosexuality and issues with one's same-sex parent

[pellaz]

first off welcome to GaySpeak

in a none clinical observation (you see hundreds of coming out stories at gayspeak):
-for gay men; they have a stronger bond to their mothers, the father is un approachable
-just not enough info on the gay women coming out at GaySpeak tho. GaySpeak is largely gay men, not to say there isnt deep respect here for all lgbt+ and there is a moderate mix of members.

I have not seen any clinical research supporting:
gay men have father issues, but closer to their mother
or
gay women have mother issues, but closer to their fathers

that being said other issues:
-lots of clinical research stuff dosnt have a big sample size and maybe why you are not seeing the research is that there is none. To do the work the sample size requirements just cant be met in a ethical way. Dosnt stop some universities tho.
-gayspeak is largely gay men, not to say there isnt deep respect here for all lgbt+.
-boys seem to harbor feelings along the lines they are in debt to their parents.
-The boys feel the need to live up to their father's image even if he might be a homophobe, had repressed latent gay feelings
-the boys value their fathers opinion. In many cases this even despite after 16-20years the parents living with their child, the father still never figured out his son was gay!