
Boys can't be pretty or beautiful. Latino Voices. In actuality, JJ has corrected me on three of the four; to which I always offer counter arguments. He's yet to enact a boy-kissing ban, but I know it's coming. And my absolute favorite thing in the world is to kiss my son. Join HuffPost Plus.




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And after much cajoling and promises of future bounty, there had been a meager "I'm sorry" from my little force of nature to his playmate and host. What's Working: My head and own experience starts to tell me, "We all go through stages where we don't want to kiss our dads or show any kind of affection to our friends. Law showed two women kissing one another, other shows soon followed with their own gay storylines.




I had all the typical American male stereotypes to unlearn, plus nearly three decades of shame to overcome.



