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In 1972, a pete but termed mother om Queens, New York, marched alongsi her gay son the New York Cy pri para. She hoisted a sign that read “"Parents of Gays: Une Support for Our Children. ”Before a roarg crowd, Jeanne Manford, an elementary school teacher, beme the first mom to publicly support her gay child, acrdg to Liz Owen, director of the munitns for PFLAG, the natn's first and largt anizatn for LGBTQ people and their fai and iends.
PFLAGIn 1973, Manford went on to found PFLAG, which origally stood for Parents and Friends of Lbians and Gays.
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The anizatn would eventually grow to over 400 chapters and 200, 000 members TV, Amerins were soon seeg parents marchg alongsi their gay children pri paras, many of them mothers wavg their own signs, acrdg to historian Lillian Farman, thor of “The Gay Revolutn. ”“It went all over the untry to small towns, ” Farman said, “and parents unrstood that was their rponsibily to e out favor of their gay kids.
Neilson Barnard / Getty ImagAfter her son Matthew was murred a homophobic attack on the outskirts of Laramie, Wyomg, 1998, Shepard and her hband, Dennis, started the Matthew Shepard Foundatn, an advocy anizatn that succsfully lobbied for feral hate crime legislatn. Data show that parents of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer kids play a large role the mental health of their children. S., thoands of moms have picked up the torch that Manford igned 1972 — nnectg through social media, formg alns and nonprofs, speakg at events, marchg paras, standg at weddgs, and embroilg themselv polil Dyer, an admistrative assistant who liv the Dallas-Fort Worth area, said she stggled after her son, Nick, me out as gay 2007.
Courty of Wendy VonSosenWendy VonSosen, 48, a Mormon mom the San Francis Bay Area, said she also stggled when her son Erik told her that he was gay at the age of 13. “I went my bathroom and cried, ” relled VonSosen, “bee beg raised as Mormon, we were tght that beg gay was a s and was a choice and was a really, really terrible thg, and so I didn’t really know how to procs or what to tell him or how to parent a gay kid.
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”Sara Cunngham and her son Parker March 2019Courty of Sara CunnghamSara Cunngham, 55, said she was vastated when her son, Parker, told her he was gay 2014. 'SHE WAS THE BRIDGE'The ally movement Jeanne Manford sparked helped lobby for legislatn that advanced gay rights, acrdg to Owen. In 1985, almost 90 percent of Amerin adults said havg a gay child would upset them — by 2015, that number dropped below 40 percent, acrdg to the Pew Rearch 1992, Manford’s son Morty, a popular gay activist, died of AIDS-related plitns at the age of 41.
“Parker is gay, ” she said. Cunngham, 58, fervently rejected her son beg gay when he first me out to her 11 years ago at age 21.
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Cunngham talked about how she works to change the world, simply by showg did you e to accept and embrace your gay son? I found fah-based rourc to better unrstand the history of homosexualy.
I met other moms of gay children and met members of the gay muny. If you didn’t know, both of my sons are gay. He’s gay.