Straight Parent, Gay Kid
Introducing Your Gay Partner To Your Straight Parents?
When Is A Good Time?After a long, cold winter, it’s finally summer. Time for long weekends or a week’s or two’s vacation at the beach with friends or the annual family reunion at the lake?You want your significant other to share these times with you. Being in the throes of the new relationship, you want…
National Blame Someone Else Day, July 13, 2014
Don’t We Blame More Often? Human nature seems to dictate that it is much easier to blame someone else than accept responsibility for your actions that may thwart or disappoint you. Sunday, July 13, is supposedly “Blame Someone Else Day.” I don’t know about you, but I can find myself blaming others for my shortcomings…
National Forgiveness Day – Not With a Bang but a Whimper
I’m sure most of you did not know that June 26, 2014 was Forgiveness Day. It wasn’t recorded on your Smartphone, discussed in church or advertised as a Hallmark moment. The day went unnoticed. Guilty Thoughts Plague You have to sin in order to be forgiven. Many straight parents when their children come out, feel…
The Little Stamp With The L-A-R-G-E Message
Harvey Milk Stamp Creates Controversy How many Harvey Milk stamps have been “returned to sender?” Since the U.S. Postal Office has issued the stamp on May 22nd, the date of slain gay rights activist Milk’s birthday, the American Family Association (AFA) has urged the public to trade the stamp for one of the United States…
Gay Pride Month, Marching Optional
President Obama has declared June as Gay Pride month. Events are planned across the United States, from San Francisco to New York and all states in between, to celebrate the achievements of the LGBT population and show solidarity not only with these groups but also their straight allies. Yet, as the straight mother of a…
We Don’t Need to Know Everything About a Celebrity!
Theatre critic Robert Hofler’s critique of Lincoln Center’s Winter 2014 issue’s lack of mention of playwright Moss Hart’s supposed homosexuality or bisexuality can be read in The Advocate.com’s “Op-Ed: Moss Hart and Posthumous Closeting.” Hart’s only book, a memoir Act One, written in 1959, and revived at Lincoln Center now, does not delve into the…
Unsung Heroes
This Memorial Day, let us be mindful of not only the WWII and Korean veterans who fought in so-called “acceptable” wars, but also those of the unpopular wars that followed. My husband, a Vietnam War veteran, returned home, with a purple heart, in 1968 to his country that was at war with itselfover whether it…
Are Your LGBT Children Mentally Healthy?
May is Mental Health Awareness Month As a parent, no one knows your kid better than you. You see him/her daily so it’s easy to notice personality or physical changes. Sure, teens can be moody; it’s o.k. to feel sad once in awhile, but a lingering sadness can spell D-E-P-R-E-S-S-I-O-N. We’ve all read about the…
You Gotta’ Have Heart
Conditional Love Common Sometimes it’s hard for a Mother to love her kids unconditionally. Kids act up. They fight with their siblings, beg for another glass of water so they don’t have to go to bed, leave pizza crust in the sofa just to name a few transgressions. To a parent, they are disrespectful when…