PFLAG, Amerin anizatn reprentg the terts of the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer (LGBTQ) muny. It was found 1973 and is the largt membership anizatn of s kd the Uned Stat. Learn more about PFLAG’s history and activi, cludg s polil efforts.
Contents:
- PARENTS AND FRIENDS OF GAYS AND LBIANS (PFLAG) OF ASHLAND, OREGON RERDS
- LBIAN MOTHERS, GAY FATHERS, AND THEIR CHILDREN: A REVIEW
PARENTS AND FRIENDS OF GAYS AND LBIANS (PFLAG) OF ASHLAND, OREGON RERDS
* parents and friends of lesbians and gays *
In 2023, PFLAG celebrat 50 years of leadg wh love for LGBTQ+ people and those who love them, and 51 years sce Jeanne Manford’s historic march wh her son, proment gay activist Morty Manford, at the 1972 Christopher Street Liberatn Day March. Later that year, Morty helped found the Gay Activists Alliance, beg bemg s print. The zap was tend to ga attentn for a cy gay-rights law that the GAA wanted passed.
“I was fur, ” Jeanne relled to historian Eric Marc, who knew the fay and who nducted a jot terview he did wh Jeanne and Morty his wonrful Makg Gay History podst [he also has a separate terview wh Morty he shared another episo of the show]. ” Jeanne said, the same terview, “Before Morty turned to June, I said, ‘This is not a te revolutnary lendar unls there is somethg about the gay march—about gays—for the month of June.
In the next years, through word of mouth and muny need, siar groups sprang up around the untry, offerg “safe havens” and mutual support for parents wh gay and lbian children. Followg the 1979 Natnal March for Gay and Lbian Rights, reprentativ om the groups met for the first time Washgton, DC. In 1982, the Feratn of Parents and Friends of Lbians and Gays, Inc., then reprentg some 20 groups, was rporated California and granted non-prof, tax-exempt stat.
LBIAN MOTHERS, GAY FATHERS, AND THEIR CHILDREN: A REVIEW
There is a variety of fai head by a lbian or gay male parent or same-sex uple. Fdgs om rearch suggt that children wh lbian or gay parents are parable wh children wh heterosexual parents on key psychosocial velopmental out. In many ways, children of lbian or g … * parents and friends of lesbians and gays *
PFLAG beme volved opposg Ana Bryant’s anti-gay csa and worked to end the U. ” Inadvertently given to the Associated Prs, her ments ed a polil maelstrom and were perhaps the first gay-posive ments to e om the Whe Hoe.
By the mid-1990s a PFLAG fay was rponsible for the Department of Edutn’s lg that Tle 9 also protected gay and lbian stunts om harassment based on sexual orientatn.