Read Sally Field’s Impassned Open Letter About Her Gay Son

SAM GREISMAN WIKI B, GAY, PARTNER. WHO IS SALLY FIELD’S SON?
SALLY FIELD ON BEG A MOM WHO SUPPORTS HER GAY SON SPOILER ALERT
SALLY FIELD GAVE UP ON PERSONAL LIFE & FOCED ON FAY — GAY SON JOK HE WANTS HER TO BE 'LS SUPPORTIVE'
SALLY FIELD AND HER GAY SON SAM TEAM UP TO PROMOTE CIVIL RIGHTS BILL THAT PROTECTS LGBTQ AMERINS
READ SALLY FIELD’S IMPASSNED OPEN LETTER ABOUT HER GAY SON
SALLY FIELD’S SUPPORT OF HER SON GO WAY BEYOND TRYG TO SET HIM UP WH ADAM RIPPONSHE’S BEEN TALKG FOR YEARS ABOUT HER “MAGNIFICENT, PROUD, TELLIGENT, FUNNY, LOVABLE, SEXY, GAY SON.”BY HILARY WEAVERFEBARY 21, 2018BY CARLO ALLEGRI/INVISN/AP/REX/SHUTTERSTOCK.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEA FEW DAYS AFTER HIS TWO-TIME OSR-WNG MOM ATTEMPTED TO SET HIM UP ON A DATE, AND WENT VIRAL THE PROCS, SAM GREISMAN HAS BROKEN THE ICE WH OLYMPIAN ADAM RIPPON. ACRDG TO PAGE SIX, GREISMAN, THE 30-YEAR-OLD, YOUNGT SON OF SALLY FIELD, SENT A DIRECT MSAGE TO RIPPON TO APOLOGIZE FOR HIS MOM’S YENTA HIJKS, WHICH HAD ALREADY EARNED A RPONSE OM A FLATTERED RIPPON. (“SAM, YOUR MOM—I ADMIRE HER. AND I’M SURE ONE DAY WE’RE GOG TO MEET! SO, THANKS, MOM.”)FIELD’S REP SAID WEDNDAY THAT SHE’S “BUTTG OUT” OF THE SUATN FOR NOW. BUT “BUTTG OUT” ISN’T SOMETHG THAT FIELD SEEMS TO DO PARTICULARLY WELL WHEN TO LOVG AND SUPPORTG HER SON.IN 2012, GREISMAN PRENTED HIS MOTHER WH THE ALLY FOR EQUALY AWARD AT THE HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN (H.R.C.) GALA. GREISMAN, WHO JOKED THAT HIS MOTHER SERVED THE AWARD BEE “THE FLYG NUN IS MPY,” SAID THAT HIS MOTHER WAS “ YOUR FACE, LIKE, ALL THE TIME.” IN THIS SE, ’S A VERY GOOD THG. “WHEN I ME OUT, SHE DIDN’T BAT AN EYE,” HE SAID. “IN FACT, SHE WAS OVERJOYED. BEG GAY WAS JT ONE MORE THG SHE LOVED ABOUT ME. SHE ULDN’T BE MORE SUPPORTIVE OF ME; IF ANYTHG, I WISH SHE WAS A LTLE LS SUPPORTIVE OF ME.” HE EVEN ADD THAT HE HAD TO S HER DOWN AND TELL HER THAT THERE WERE SOME THGS ABOUT HIS DATG LIFE THAT HE ULD JT NOT SHARE WH HER.WHEN FIELD FOLLOWED GREISMAN, HER YOUNGT SON OF THREE, ON THE STAGE THAT NIGHT, SHE MA AN IMPASSNED SPEECH THAT, NOT UNLIKE HER MONSTRATIVE 1985 OSR SPEECH (“YOU LIKE ME; YOU REALLY LIKE ME!”) WAS A MEMORABLE ONE.“YOU’VE CHANGED AND ARE CHANGG THE LIV OF LTLE BOYS AND GIRLS WHO REALIZED SOMEWHERE ALONG THE WAY THEY’RE JT DIFFERENT OM THEIR OTHER BROTHERS AND SISTERS,” SHE SAID, ADDRSG HER CROWD AT THE GALA. “AND SO THE FUCK WHAT.”SHE SPOKE TO OPRAH WEY LATER ABOUT THAT CHOICE OF WORDS. “. . . THERE WAS NO OTHER WORD, WORKS, WAS EXACTLY . . . HAD TO BE THERE BEE REALLY PERTAED TO WHAT I HAD TO SAY. IT’S IMPORTANT TO HAVE A PARENT SPEAK ABOUT RAISG A MAGNIFICENT, PROUD, TELLIGENT, FUNNY, LOVABLE, SEXY, GAY SON. AND THERE ARE SO MANY PARENTS WHO ARE IGHTENED OF THAT AND WHO DON’T EMBRACE THEIR CHILDREN AS THE STGGLE TO . . . EMBRACE WHO THEY ARE, WHAT NATURE TEND THEM TO BE.”IN HER H.R.C. SPEECH, FIELD SAID THAT SHE HAD TO TELL HERSELF TO BACK OFF WHEN HER SON FIRST ME OUT. “WHEN I SAW HIM STGGLG, I WANTED TO JUMP AND FE FOR HIM, BUT HIS BROTHERS HELD ME BACK, FIERCELY SISTG I TRY NOT TO TRAVEL DOWN THAT ROAD FOR HIM; WAS HIS TO TRAVEL, NOT ME, THEY KEPT TELLG ME . . . I ULD MAKE EASIER BY STANDG, VISIBLY, TO THE SI, CLEARLY LOVG HIM AND ALWAYS, ALWAYS THERE, EVEN IF WAS JT ON THE PHONE AT ALL TIM OF THE DAY OR NIGHT.”THE BT SIGHTS AT THE 2018 OLYMPICS OPENG CEREMONY1 / 18CHEVRONCHEVRONBY QUN ROONEY/GETTY IMAG.MOST POPULARTHE ELVIS PRLEY WE DIDN’T SEE ELVISBY KATEY RICHRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, LOSG LISA MARIE, AND INHERG GRACELANDBY BRT HENNEMUTHELON MK’S TWTER WANTED TO TELL TMP ABOUT A SEALED SEARCH WARRANT AND POTENTIALLY F--K UP JACK SMH’S CRIMAL INVTIGATNBY BS LEVHILARY WEAVER

SAM GREISMAN WIKI B, GAY, PARTNER. WHO IS SALLY FIELD’S SON?

* sally field's gay son *

Maybe 's bee gay men feel a certa unniable affectn for award-wng actrs. In 2016, he released another project entled “Dner wh Jefey”, about a 19 year old teenager g out of the closet, and his stggl to f wh other gay – Sally FieldGreisman’s mother Sally Field works as an actrs and director, wh her work the latter probably beg the spiratn for her son to pursue siar FieldShe’s won numero aclas over the urse of her reer, cludg two Osrs, three Primetime Emmys, two Goln Globe, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. There have been no nfirmed affairs, perhaps bee he is gay and somewhat shy.

SALLY FIELD ON BEG A MOM WHO SUPPORTS HER GAY SON SPOILER ALERT

His directg work often foc on the topic of g out and alg wh adjtg to a gay liftyle. He also jok about how the media always refer to him as Sally Field’s gay son – or Sally Field’s sgle son – stead of g his real name.

My task as an actor is certaly to brg my own emotnal life to , and I have experience wh that my own son fally talkg to me about beg gay.

Her youngt son Sam is gay, and the Mrs.

SALLY FIELD GAVE UP ON PERSONAL LIFE & FOCED ON FAY — GAY SON JOK HE WANTS HER TO BE 'LS SUPPORTIVE'

In particular the scene where Ben Aldridge’s K unexpectedly out to his parents as gay. On TV, she won an Emmy for her portrayal of Abby's (Mra Tierney) schizophrenic mom on ER and another for starrg as a lovg mom (Nora Walker) to a gay son played by Matthew Rhys on Brothers and Sisters at a time when gay characters on prime time were rare. In life, Field is an outspoken equaly activist for all margalized groups, and along wh her son Sam Greisman, who is gay, she's been particularly outspoken about phg to pass the Equaly Act, which would ban discrimatn on the basis of sexual orientatn, genr inty, and creds Brothers and Sisters shownner and Spoiler Alert wrer David Marshall Grant and director Michael Showalter (who directed her the die gem Hello, My Name Is Doris) for brgg her on to Spoiler Alert to play mom to Ben Aldridge's K and mother--law to Jim Parsons's Michael.

"Throughout her storied reer, Field has played a teen surfer girl Gidget, an airborne woman of God The Flyg Nun, and a unn activist Norma Rae, but her first groundbreakg role as a mom to a gay son is the one that seems to ronate to most lately. She rells her son's g-out scene Brothers and Sisters, where Kev asks why she didn't jt ask him about beg gay if she knew, and she rponds that wasn't her journey to take. And she didn't know I was gay.

SALLY FIELD AND HER GAY SON SAM TEAM UP TO PROMOTE CIVIL RIGHTS BILL THAT PROTECTS LGBTQ AMERINS

Samuel shar a close relatnship wh his mom, who accepted him openly when he me out as gay. The actrs has openly exprsed her pri her gay son and enuraged other parents to do the same.

In the vio, the actrs vio chats wh her openly gay son Sam Greisman to talk about what the passg of this legislatn would mean.

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SALLY FIELD’S SUPPORT OF HER SON GO WAY BEYOND TRYG TO SET HIM UP WH ADAM RIPPONSHE’S BEEN TALKG FOR YEARS ABOUT HER “MAGNIFICENT, PROUD, TELLIGENT, FUNNY, LOVABLE, SEXY, GAY SON.”BY HILARY WEAVERFEBARY 21, 2018BY CARLO ALLEGRI/INVISN/AP/REX/SHUTTERSTOCK.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEA FEW DAYS AFTER HIS TWO-TIME OSR-WNG MOM ATTEMPTED TO SET HIM UP ON A DATE, AND WENT VIRAL THE PROCS, SAM GREISMAN HAS BROKEN THE ICE WH OLYMPIAN ADAM RIPPON. ACRDG TO PAGE SIX, GREISMAN, THE 30-YEAR-OLD, YOUNGT SON OF SALLY FIELD, SENT A DIRECT MSAGE TO RIPPON TO APOLOGIZE FOR HIS MOM’S YENTA HIJKS, WHICH HAD ALREADY EARNED A RPONSE OM A FLATTERED RIPPON. (“SAM, YOUR MOM—I ADMIRE HER. AND I’M SURE ONE DAY WE’RE GOG TO MEET! SO, THANKS, MOM.”)FIELD’S REP SAID WEDNDAY THAT SHE’S “BUTTG OUT” OF THE SUATN FOR NOW. BUT “BUTTG OUT” ISN’T SOMETHG THAT FIELD SEEMS TO DO PARTICULARLY WELL WHEN TO LOVG AND SUPPORTG HER SON.IN 2012, GREISMAN PRENTED HIS MOTHER WH THE ALLY FOR EQUALY AWARD AT THE HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN (H.R.C.) GALA. GREISMAN, WHO JOKED THAT HIS MOTHER SERVED THE AWARD BEE “THE FLYG NUN IS MPY,” SAID THAT HIS MOTHER WAS “ YOUR FACE, LIKE, ALL THE TIME.” IN THIS SE, ’S A VERY GOOD THG. “WHEN I ME OUT, SHE DIDN’T BAT AN EYE,” HE SAID. “IN FACT, SHE WAS OVERJOYED. BEG GAY WAS JT ONE MORE THG SHE LOVED ABOUT ME. SHE ULDN’T BE MORE SUPPORTIVE OF ME; IF ANYTHG, I WISH SHE WAS A LTLE LS SUPPORTIVE OF ME.” HE EVEN ADD THAT HE HAD TO S HER DOWN AND TELL HER THAT THERE WERE SOME THGS ABOUT HIS DATG LIFE THAT HE ULD JT NOT SHARE WH HER.WHEN FIELD FOLLOWED GREISMAN, HER YOUNGT SON OF THREE, ON THE STAGE THAT NIGHT, SHE MA AN IMPASSNED SPEECH THAT, NOT UNLIKE HER MONSTRATIVE 1985 OSR SPEECH (“YOU LIKE ME; YOU REALLY LIKE ME!”) WAS A MEMORABLE ONE.“YOU’VE CHANGED AND ARE CHANGG THE LIV OF LTLE BOYS AND GIRLS WHO REALIZED SOMEWHERE ALONG THE WAY THEY’RE JT DIFFERENT OM THEIR OTHER BROTHERS AND SISTERS,” SHE SAID, ADDRSG HER CROWD AT THE GALA. “AND SO THE FUCK WHAT.”SHE SPOKE TO OPRAH WEY LATER ABOUT THAT CHOICE OF WORDS. “. . . THERE WAS NO OTHER WORD, WORKS, WAS EXACTLY . . . HAD TO BE THERE BEE REALLY PERTAED TO WHAT I HAD TO SAY. IT’S IMPORTANT TO HAVE A PARENT SPEAK ABOUT RAISG A MAGNIFICENT, PROUD, TELLIGENT, FUNNY, LOVABLE, SEXY, GAY SON. AND THERE ARE SO MANY PARENTS WHO ARE IGHTENED OF THAT AND WHO DON’T EMBRACE THEIR CHILDREN AS THE STGGLE TO . . . EMBRACE WHO THEY ARE, WHAT NATURE TEND THEM TO BE.”IN HER H.R.C. SPEECH, FIELD SAID THAT SHE HAD TO TELL HERSELF TO BACK OFF WHEN HER SON FIRST ME OUT. “WHEN I SAW HIM STGGLG, I WANTED TO JUMP AND FE FOR HIM, BUT HIS BROTHERS HELD ME BACK, FIERCELY SISTG I TRY NOT TO TRAVEL DOWN THAT ROAD FOR HIM; WAS HIS TO TRAVEL, NOT ME, THEY KEPT TELLG ME . . . I ULD MAKE EASIER BY STANDG, VISIBLY, TO THE SI, CLEARLY LOVG HIM AND ALWAYS, ALWAYS THERE, EVEN IF WAS JT ON THE PHONE AT ALL TIM OF THE DAY OR NIGHT.”THE BT SIGHTS AT THE 2018 OLYMPICS OPENG CEREMONY1 / 18CHEVRONCHEVRONBY QUN ROONEY/GETTY IMAG.MOST POPULARTHE ELVIS PRLEY WE DIDN’T SEE ELVISBY KATEY RICHRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, LOSG LISA MARIE, AND INHERG GRACELANDBY BRT HENNEMUTHELON MK’S TWTER WANTED TO TELL TMP ABOUT A SEALED SEARCH WARRANT AND POTENTIALLY F--K UP JACK SMH’S CRIMAL INVTIGATNBY BS LEVHILARY WEAVER

The fabulo Sally Field released this open letter about her gay son today, and ’s more than enough to give you a Happy Friday. Sam is my youngt son, by 18 years, and he’s gay.

Fally, at 20, long after he beat his brothers at tennis and puter gam and knew as much as anyone about basketball, Sam was able to stand up proudly and say, “I am a gay man.

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SAM GREISMAN WIKI B, GAY, PARTNER. WHO IS SALLY FIELD’S SON?

SALLY FIELD ON BEG A MOM WHO SUPPORTS HER GAY SON SPOILER ALERT

SALLY FIELD GAVE UP ON PERSONAL LIFE & FOCED ON FAY — GAY SON JOK HE WANTS HER TO BE 'LS SUPPORTIVE'

SALLY FIELD AND HER GAY SON SAM TEAM UP TO PROMOTE CIVIL RIGHTS BILL THAT PROTECTS LGBTQ AMERINS