A Letter to Her Gay Son: Spreadg Lr Mayeno's Profound Msage
Contents:
- DEAR PARENT OF A GAY CHILD
- HOW ONE MOTHER’S LOVE FOR HER GAY SON STARTED A REVOLUTN
- A LETTER TO HER GAY SON: SPREADG LR MAYENO'S PROFOUND MSAGE
- JT BEE HE BREATH: LEARNG TO TLY LOVE OUR GAY SON
- GAY MEN AND THEIR MOTHERS: IS THERE A SPECIAL CLOSENS?
DEAR PARENT OF A GAY CHILD
* proud mom of a gay son *
After Lil Nas X me out publicly as gay and fully embraced his sexualy his Montero (Call Me By Your Name) mic vio, his father, gospel mician Robert Stafford, wrote on Instagram, “Very creative vio. Tori Spellg & Dean McDermott are no strangers to parentg an LGBTQ+ child — McDermott’s olst son, Jack, is gay. Durg a film screeng of his movie My Fake Boyiend June, McDermott posted an Instagram Story which said, part, “The thg I love about this movie is I got to share wh my 15-year-old, who intifi as trans, and my gay son.
HOW ONE MOTHER’S LOVE FOR HER GAY SON STARTED A REVOLUTN
"On that day the crowd uld see that I was a proud mom who loved her four gay kids." * proud mom of a gay son *
In December 2021, By Philipps announced on her podst, By Philipps is Dog Her Bt, that her child Birdie is gay and prefers they/them pronouns.
“As a parent, I wanted EJ to know that we loved him and would always love him, ” Magic Johnson told the New York Tim of his reactn when his son, makp artist EJ Johnson, me out to him as gay when he was a teenager. “As long as I am upright, I will fight [so] that Sam and everyone’s children and grandchildren and sisters and brothers will be protected every state of the Uned Stat, ” Sally Field said of her son, Sam Greisman, who is gay — and why she’s a part of the Human Rights Campaign’s work towards the Equaly Act.
A LETTER TO HER GAY SON: SPREADG LR MAYENO'S PROFOUND MSAGE
My mother, and my (gay) self. * proud mom of a gay son *
I jt want to make sure he gets to have a fay when he wants one, ” Marcia Gay Harn said of son Hudson at the Fay Equaly Council’s Impact Awards. You may have grown up thkg that gay people f to a certa five mold, and your child acted “straight” through the years, only to seemgly sudnly reveal their same-sex attractn.
Others entst only their parents wh their secret until the timg is right to tell may feel happy, relieved, sad, sred, angry, nfed, or all of the above when you fd out your child is gay. I reached out to my lol PFLAG — a natnwi group that holds regular meetgs for parents of gay children (no matter the age).
It's also where I learned about Tvada, a daily pill aimed at batg HIV wh high-risk groups (gay men, for example).
JT BEE HE BREATH: LEARNG TO TLY LOVE OUR GAY SON
It was a wonrful experience to meet all the other fay members and hear their stori and learn om a parent n be very sry, pecially today’s tumultuo a parent to a gay child n often add an extra layer of worry and fear.
Whether you are gay, straight, bi, pan, asexual, or everythg parents, ntu to be our job to love and protect and support our children. She was rryg a piece of orange poster board wh a msage hand-lettered black marker: “PARENTS of GAYS: UNITE SUPPORT fOR oUR CHILDREN.
GAY MEN AND THEIR MOTHERS: IS THERE A SPECIAL CLOSENS?
They asked if they uld kiss her; they asked if she would talk to their parents; they told her that they uldn’t image their own mothers and fathers supportg them so publicly, or supportg them at woman’s name was Jeanne Manford, and she was marchg alongsi her twenty-one-year-old gay son, Morty. The anizatn they dreamed up that day, which started as a sgle support group Manhattan, was ially lled Parents of Gays; later, was renamed Parents FLAG, for Parents and Friends of Lbians and Gays; nowadays, is known only as PFLAG.