Gay Pri, annual celebratn, ually June the Uned Stat and sometim at other tim other untri, of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer (LGBTQ) inty. Gay Pri memorat the Stonewall rts New York Cy of June 28, 1969.
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From Los Angel to Washgton DC, people have recently been g together across the US for Pri Month. But hasn't jt been a celebratn for people who are lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr. * gay pride mothers *
”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.
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. 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.
HOW ONE MOTHER’S LOVE FOR HER GAY SON STARTED A REVOLUTN
* gay pride mothers *
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.
”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. 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.
Longtime ally and supporter of the Human Rights Campaign, Sally Field wrote a lengthy say scribg her son's experience g to his own as a gay man, and how important beg a part of that experience was to her. "It's difficult for me to unrstand a fay member judgg or not lovg or acceptg another fay member bee they are gay, "Ally said an terview wh the Wdy Cy Tim, "It's like when a member of the fay marri someone who is of another race or relign.