Tag: mother

'When I See the Hate the Donald Trump Has Brought to His Campaign for President, It Terrifies Me' Following the 18th anniversary of the brutal attack and anti-gay hate crime that resulted in her son Matthew Shepard’s death, Judy Shepard has teamed with pro-Hillary Clinton super PAC Priorities USA Action to denounce Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s campaign. “I’ve seen what can happen as the result of hate,” Shepard begins, proceeding to recall the horrific events that led to her son’s death in 1998. Her...

Life is a series of choices — what to have for lunch, where to go to college, when to come out to Mom and Dad and, most importantly for this story, when to work on that beach-ready bod. From the depths of Reddit comes this cautionary tale about the importance of the nuclear family and the bonds that tie it together. So easily they can fray, over seemingly so little. A distraught 20-year-old sister, we’ll call her Rachel, fills in the...

Nearly every year, Frances Goldin attends New York City Pride holding a sign that reads “I adore my lesbian daughters. Keep them safe.” This newspaper image showing a woman holding a sign that reads “I adore my lesbian daughters. Keep them safe” has been floating all around the internet for quite some time now — maybe you’ve seen it? And there are a bunch of other photographs — of the same woman and the same sign — from pride celebrations over...

It has been two months since a lone gunman opened fire on Orlando’s Pulse nightclub, killing 49 and injuring 53 others. For Christine Leinonen, whose only son was killed that night, her life will never be the same. Leinonen sat on her couch with a stack of old photographs of her son on her lap when ABC news recently visited her. “He was one of the good ones,” she said. “You would have loved him as your neighbor, as your son, as...

The Olympic diver says his relationship with Dustin Lance Black gave him the courage to be who he really is. Tom Daley has opened up about the moment he told his mum that he was in a relationship with another man – saying coming out was much easier than he originally thought. The diver told his mum about his relationship with Dustin Lance Black during a birthday celebration to which he’d invited his new boyfriend. “My mum had no idea. It was just...

Lots of parents will do anything for their kids and this mum is no exception. The Monastero twins, who came out as gay together in 2014 in a viral video, asked the help of their mum to find them a new boyfriend. Luke and Adam posted the video on their channel of their mum making profiles for them both and contacting people. Of course she writes “no nudies” in the carefully devised profiles which specify age limits – Luke’s at 45, Adam’s...

Gwen Stefani wants her children to be happy and healthy, and would feel blessed if one came out as gay. Gwen Stefani - the mother of three children - Kingston, 9, Zuma, 7, and Apollo, 2, says it’s a topic that often comes up in her circle. Here’s what she said when asked how she’d react if one of them turned out to be gay: "I would be blessed with a gay son. You know that I would feel blessed about that. I just want my...

Texan Ron Malott recently sat down with the I’m From Driftwood series, a campaign that tells first-person coming out stories. Malott shared his unique coming out story that involved the discovery that both he and his twin brother are gay. Then they faced the hardest part: how to tell their mom that they’re both gay. Watch Malott’s revelation below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHzM3JzjOG4 sourse: youtube.com

'What horrifies me is that there are parents who so disapprove, who are so brainwashed to think that this is something out of the Bible or ungodly or against nature' Two-time Oscar-winning US actress and LGBTI rights supporter Sally Field has advice for parents who have LGBTI children or expect their child was about to come out to them. Field, who is herself a mother to a gay son, appealed to parents to not put their own ‘prejudices’ or ‘fears about sexuality including their...

In the autumn of 2013, I still was a careless, 17-year-old high-school student. Life had to seem as a full of adventures and opportunities land for me, but in fact, it didn’t. There was a missing piece, which wouldn’t let me complete my puzzle of happiness. That missing piece was my freedom, my freedom to love somebody, my freedom to be what I am. Being gay was not easy, it had never been easy, particularly in such a small town...

I put on another veil, watching myself disappear into the black folds of this confining fabric I hate so much. Knowing that this is another day when I have to pretend to be something I am not. My mother walks into the room, sporting a bruise on her back. It is not the first time. She silently gives me the analgesic and antibiotic creams to apply for her. I ask her calmly what happened again. She said he found...