Tag: mother

Police in Mendocino County now say that two lesbian mothers from Washington state appear to have intentionally driven their SUV off a cliff, killing themselves and their six children, ages 12 to 19. Sarah and Jennifer Hart’s 2003 GMC Yukon XL was found last Monday in the Pacific Ocean. The moms and three of their children were found inside, while the other three children are missing and presumed to have died in the crash. The car went over the edge of...

It sounds like the setup for an off-color joke: A boy comes out to his mother, who then calls a gay bar asking advice as to what she should do. But such was the situation this week when a mother rang up a Mississippi gay bar called well, Sipps, asking the bartender what she should say to her newly-out son. The bartender that night was a certain Kara Cowley, who picked up the phone, and here’s how the convo went (via...

"I was forced to use the only photos of the mirror I could find..." Sohail Justin Akhavein’s Instagram has plenty of “playful” photos, where he’s wearing nothing but his undies and knee-high heels. But the 30-year-old from Minneapolis is more than just a hunk: He’s employed in higher education, works with the disabled, and does some yoga instructing, too. https://www.instagram.com/p/BOqUjk6gWsr/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=embed_legacy Some time ago Sohail’s mother found a unicorn mirror at a estate sale and, being the fabulous mother she is, bought it...

Johnny Lopez, star of the reality show The Riveras and the son of the late Mexican singer Jenni Rivera, has publicly come out in a video on YouTube to discuss his sexuality. Johnny appears in the video with his sister Chiquis and explains how photos of him with his boyfriend of 2 years, Joaquin, were posted online and went viral--causing backlash from fans of his family's story and his mother's music. https://www.instagram.com/p/BcDzVFXjMJT/ https://www.instagram.com/p/Bb3pQv0lfHh/ Johnny's late mother, Jenni Rivera, better known as La...

'I was torn between my husband and my child.' ‘I was torn between my husband and my child.’ These are the words of Carolyn, a Catholic mother who now regrets disowning her gay son, David. Speaking as a part of Eric Kruszewski’s documentary on LEAD, an LGBTI group in Saint Matthew’s Catholic Church, she talks about her family and the moment she found out about her son’s sexuality. ‘The time that we found out about David’s homosexuality was very, very difficult. We happened...

Frozen 'superfan' Noah loves dressing up as Queen Elsa. Disneyland Paris has refused to let a three-year-old boy take part its ‘Princess for a Day’ experience because he’s not a girl, his mother has said. Hayley McLean-Glass hoped to book the ‘fairytale transformation’ as a Christmas present for her three-year-old son Noah who is a “superfan” of the Disney film Frozen and loves to dress up as Queen Elsa from the film. However, the mother of three says she was left devastated...

A loving mother has allegedly been forced to resign from her high-ranking post in a Muslim group because her son is gay. Siddika Reza defied her peers by refusing to condemn her son, Ali Reza, when he came out as gay. Earlier this month she attended the same-sex wedding of her son, speaking openly about her joy for the happy couple. Following the wedding she has become the target of public condemnation from leaders of their Shia Ithna-Asheri sect, also known as...

Ex-WWE superstar is proud of his lesbian mom Former WWE superstar Dave Bautista has no tolerance for anti-LGBTI bigots. Now an actor who appeared in the Guardians of the Galaxy films, Bautista recently tweeted: ‘Proud son of a lesbian and anyone who has issue with that can suck my balls.’ The tweet from Galaxy’s Drax the Destroyer was in response to a fan who thanked the 38 year old for being a defender of LGBTI equality. ‘Obviously no thanks necessary but I appreciate...

Congrats to Ryan Jordan Santana! A gay baseball player came out publicly on live TV last night (24 April). Ryan Jordan Santana, who played at a Christian university in California, is a professional for the Golden Grove Dodgers in Adelaide, Australia. He came out to his teammates and his mother for the first time as part of TLC’s series This Is Life Live. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdgigwJOBGE On the show, the host asked Santana ‘why come out to your family on national television.’ ‘I feel like I struggled...

'From today, saying a gay person made a pass at you will no longer be an acceptable, legal excuse for murder.' Pop star Troye Sivan and his mom are celebrating the end of the archaic ‘gay panic defence’ law in Queensland. Sivan and his mom Laurelle post a video congratulating Catholic Priest Father Paul Kelly who fought for years to have ‘gay panic’ abolished in the northern Australian state. The ‘gay panic’ legal defence allowed men charged with murder to have their...

A mother has been arrested for allegedly stabbing her gay son to death after a Christmas family row. 32-year-old Tatiana Lozano Pereira was arrested last month over the killing of her 17-year-old son Itaberli Lozano in their house in Cravinhos, Brazil. According to reports in local Portuguese-language media outlets, Lozano Pereira has long rejected his son because he is gay. However a row between the pair worsened over Christmas, and escalated when Lozano Pereira hired two thugs to “teach a lesson” to...

Adult film star Colby Keller went ahead and made Nico Tortorella cry during the most recent episode of the actor/model’s podcast The Love Bomb. Things started to get personal when Keller shared a story about how his parents reacted to the fact that he was gay when he was 15-years-old. Keller, who’s the youngest of four kids, kept a stash of gay adult meterial hidden under the bathroom sink and his mother found it one day. The box mysteriously vanished, and his parents told him...

A mother reaches out to the Reddit community for advice. Reddit user Stripedpolkadots posted in the LGBT subreddit asking other redditors for advice for dealing with her teenage son who she thinks is gay. “My son is 13 and although he has never told me, I am sure that he is gay,” she posted in the thread. “I would really like to make things easier for him and help him but I have no idea how to approach the subject… I’m...

A mother who lost her son in the Orlando Pulse massacre has spoken out ahead of the Presidential election. Christopher Leinonen died in the horrific attack in June, when a gunman opened fire in the Pulse gay club, killing 49 people and injuring 53. In a ad for the Human Rights Campaign, Christopher’s mother Christine Leinonen opened up about the tragedy. She wrote: “My son Christopher Leinonen was shot and killed at the Pulse nightclub along with his boyfriend Juan and 47 other people. “This is definitely...