These Dads Talking About Their Gay Sons Will Make You Feel Everything

"The likelihood of him being gay was pretty much an eventuality."

This touching video is of Australian dads with gay sons reading a book about a boy who comes out to his own dad.

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The dads then go on to talk about the moment that their own sons came out to them.

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The book's author, Samuel Leighton-Dore, whose dad stars in the video, told BuzzFeed how genuinely moved he was when making the video.

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"Having spent so many years in the closet, dreading my parents' response, it highlighted how far society has come in such a short period of time," he said.

All of the dads visibly tear up as they share their stories.

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I Think I'm A Poof is a picture book about overcoming the challenges young boys face when they feel different to their friends.

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Samuel says he noticed how the books we read sculpt our lives from a young age, and "we all need to have protagonists with whom we can relate".

And it's perfect.

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