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HOW ONE MOTHER’S LOVE FOR HER GAY SON STARTED A REVOLUTN
ANNUALLY, the month of June is known as LGBTQIA+ Pri were a number of advot who passnately fought for gay rights the mid-sixtie * mother gay pride *
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. 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.
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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.