'The Waltons': Married TV Couple Grandma & Grandpa Were Both Actually Gay

Contents:

• WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT A SEEMGLY FAKE DOCUMENT A GAY RIGHTS CASE
• ‘THE WALTONS’: MARRIED TV COUPLE GRANDMA & GRANDPA WERE BOTH ACTUALLY GAY
• PORTIA DI ROSSI TELLS GRANDMA “I’M GAY”
• MY GRANDSON IS GAY… AND I LOVE HIM VERY MUCH
• WHY I WON’T TELL MY GRANDMOTHER I’M GAY

WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT A SEEMGLY FAKE DOCUMENT A GAY RIGHTS CASE

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He is, moreover, straight, married to a woman and a supporter of gay rights. More about Adam LiptakA versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 12 of the New York edn wh the headle: Crics Are Qutng a Seemgly Fake Document a Recent Gay Rights Case.

Need advice on how to al wh my homophobic grandma (I'm a closeted lbian). Some people know I'm gay, some, like my grandma, don't and never will. I n't e out to her bee she's homophobic and I'm nice enough to let her live whout the strs and disgt that her perfect granddghter is a lbian.

‘THE WALTONS’: MARRIED TV COUPLE GRANDMA & GRANDPA WERE BOTH ACTUALLY GAY

However, their private liv, each was actually gay and homosexual relatnships of sorts.

As lovers, the two spired and fluenced one another to gay rights activism. Today, Harry Hay is celebrated as a sort of foundg father gay rights activism. Picture this: your grandson has jt told you he’s gay.

When your grandchild choos to e out to you and be openly gay, may be the most urageo choice they will ever make.

PORTIA DI ROSSI TELLS GRANDMA “I’M GAY”

After the rolleraster of emotns they go through, many fai actually look back and fd that you are grateful for the experience of havg a gay or lbian child.

Michael LaSala says, “Well, my study of 65 fai of gay and lbian youth for the book, Comg Out, Comg Home: Helpg Fai Adjt to a Gay or Lbian Child, I found that some parents get to the pot where they believe that the experience of havg a gay child actually ma them a better person – more open md and sensive to the needs of others, particularly those other mory groups. A great example of how to set an example for your fay when your grandson tells you he’s gay is this letter of support wrten by a grandfather that went viral worldwi a uple of years ago.

She said that she already knew her son was gay, as did her 81-year-old mother, and that when he cid to e out to them, her mother wanted her her dghter to “tell him we love him too.

MY GRANDSON IS GAY… AND I LOVE HIM VERY MUCH

There’s nothg gay to see here. I have accepted that honty n’t be the bt policy when to a homophobic elrly grandparent. I’ve studied the history, the ton—the Stonewall rts, the gural 1971 prott for gay rights on Parliament Hill, and the march that spired our annual celebratns of sexualy and genr at Pri.

WHY I WON’T TELL MY GRANDMOTHER I’M GAY

Nonna’s homophobia is buried ep and unchangeable. I’m also whe, and wh that brgs a great al of privilege: one 2003 study that surveyed lbian, gay, and bisexual people New York Cy and Los Angel found that people of lour were ls likely than their whe unterparts to be out to their parents, whose fai, rearchers noted, are more likely to assume their kids are straight and don’t talk as openly about sexualy general. I live a time and place that is good to me as a whe, gay woman.

But to actually be lockg ey wh Ellen and hold her, shakg hands as she said, "I'm gay, " on natnal televisn and for the first time, as she has shared outloud that way publicly, was such a profoundly extraordary and timate gift to that moment that I will forever be grateful for.