Coming Out to Parents

[Fearless]

Boy would that have been nice.

[tblue]

1. I wish this dad on all of us.

That's exactly what I'd say to my kid.

[DreamGypsy]

2. Why, why, why, is there any other way to react, than this ...

...if you love your children?

[Live and Learn]

9. +1 nt

[Rowdyboy]

3. Very close to the conversation I had with my mom (she said she'd known since I was 3)

Didn't go as well with my dad but he coped. I was pretty lucky.

[aquart]

4. Best letter I ever read.

Hope he remembered the OJ and bread.

[Fearless]

5. Damn well better have!

[JackBeck]

6. It's been a particularly long week but

reading this note just made me bawl, especially when his Dad said that he and his Mom think they make a cute couple.

[bl968]

7. A wonderful resource

A great site is Family Acceptance... http://www.familyacceptance.org/

[Skittles]

8. I had a friend whose parents high-fived and one of them said, "I WIN!"

they had bet on when their son would come out, years before - when he asked why they had not said anything to him, they said it was always his place to talk to them, not the other way around

[beyurslf]

10. In so many ways, kids are lucky today. So many more enlightened parents who just love their kids.

[MNBrewer]

11. It's important for the entire world that people come out to their parents

Sen. Portman, for example. His son not only set his relationship with his father on a new course, but his father's relationship with all of US, too.

[Fearless]

12. +1000!

[demosocialist]

13. K&R nt

[cate94]

14. This is so awesome.

I was disowned when I came out. However, the family needed me, so it only lasted six months or so...

It makes me happy to see people love their children for who they are and not who they want them to be.