Dwyane Wade Gives Powerful Speech on Raising Gay Son

Dwyane Wade was asked what it’s like parenting a gay son when he comes from a hyper-masculine NBA environment.

The 37-year-old former professional basketball player shared his thoughts on Stephen Jackson and Matt Barnes‘ All the Smoke podcast this week.

“I had to look myself in the mirror when my son at the time was 3 years old and me and my wife started having conversations about us noticing that he wasn’t on the boy vibe that Zaire [Dwyane‘s other son] was on,” Dwyane said about his 12-year-old son Zion. “And, I had to look myself in the mirror and say, ‘What if your son come home and tell you he’s gay? What are you going to do? How are you going to be? How are you going to act? It ain’t about him. He knows who he is. It’s about you. Who are you?’”

“I grew up with the same perspective as a lot of these people out here that’s a little ignorant,” Dwyane continued. “I grew up with a similar perspective. And, you meet people along the way that help you take those glasses off and put on some different ones. Look through life through a different lens. That’s what my wife has been able to do. So, it’s been cool.”

“Everybody get used to it, man,” Dwyane added. “This is the new normal. So if anybody different, we looked at as different. You know what I’m saying? The ones that don’t understand it. The ones that don’t get it. The ones that are stuck in a box. You’re different. Not the people that are out here living their lives, man.”

“You want to talk about strength and courage? My 12-year-old has way more than I have,” Dwyane shared. “You can learn something from your kids.”

Zion is Dwyane Wade‘s son from a previous relationship, and he and his current wife Gabrielle Union have been publicly supportive of him, such as at Miami’s Pride Festival earlier this year.

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