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March 2015

March 27, 2015

Dear Susan: My Partner’s Parents Are Not Supportive. How Can I Best Help Her?

I love love. It gets tricky sometimes, doesn't it? Fear can sneak up on us,...

March 23, 2015

Non-affirming Christians: Does THIS Look Like Love??

"According to a witness, the attacker threw him to the ground and stomped his...

March 18, 2015

Do Gay People Have Better Sex Than Straight People?

“Sex with you is so good, we should celebrate it by having sex.” Do LGBTQ...

March 16, 2015

“My Love For A Person Of The Same Sex” – A Gay Man’s Response to Ignorance, Bigotry & Hate

"Sadomasochism, child abuse, human trafficking, rape, murder, genocide, greed, corruption... and homosexuality." What does it...

February 2015

February 18, 2015

A Love Letter To My Anti-Gay Christian Friend

My friend, you are a lovely soul. You pour out the love of Jesus to...

February 09, 2015

A Letter to my Lesbian Daughter After She Came Out on Facebook

Our youngest daughter, Hannah, recently came out on Facebook. (Our second LGBTQ child.) It was...

January 2015

January 28, 2015

The Complicated Pain of Hiding Your True Colors

To come out as LGBTQ can be excruciating. Such a high price is extracted, so...

January 12, 2015

Our OTHER Daughter Comes Out! (Facebook, Wine & Cornflakes)

It's 8:28 am, I open my laptop, Facebook pops up, I click on "family" and...

January 01, 2015

Top 5 Posts of 2014! (And the Top Post of All Time)

I can hardly believe that it has only been 11 months since my book, "Mom,...

December 2014

December 31, 2014

7 Deadly Sins Parents Commit Against Transgender Kids – In Memory of Leelah Alcorn

Leelah’s story is one you have probably heard. The transgender girl who committed suicide by...

November 2014

November 26, 2014

From My Heart… What I Do and How I Do It

We have never written a post like this before. It's important and I want to...

November 13, 2014

An Update on the Girl Whose Dad Kicked Her Out

Several weeks ago, I told you the tragic story of a young girl and how...

November 12, 2014

Is it Time to Stand Up in Your Church?

Churches are facing hard decisions on their treatment of LGBTQ. Some churches are changing, some...

October 2014

October 30, 2014

What I’ve Learned as an Ally, an Advocate, and the Christian Mom of a Gay Child

“Victory is not won in miles, but in inches. Win a little now, hold your...

October 27, 2014

I Wept Over All The Missed Time

"I started to look at her again as my cousin whom I love, not as...

October 15, 2014

From A Mom… If You Were My Gay Child, This Is What I Would Tell You

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September 2014

September 18, 2014

Love Yourself Hard

My darling friend (codename Salarcon) is consistently more joyful than many of us put together....

August 2014

August 12, 2014

Taking Pro-Gay to Seminary! :-)

Guess what? I start seminary next month. Yes, the opportunity came out of the blue --...

August 06, 2014

Coming Out and Letting Go

"The energy of avoidance became too great to ignore. I broke. After nearly 20 years...

July 2014

July 14, 2014

In Honor of Our Lost LGBTQ Children

Ryan Robertson died five years ago this week. In his honor, friends and I have chosen...

June 2014

June 24, 2014

Family Relationships: The Fine Line Between Hope & Denial

After he came out, his mother burned his birth certificate and all his childhood photos...

June 20, 2014

A Coming Out Story

Vulnerability encloses me. I do not know how it happened, nor how I got here....

June 13, 2014

Saying Goodbye to My Dad & Father’s Day as I Have Known It

Eleven years ago, I joined the ranks of honorees for Father’s Day. The previous...

June 11, 2014

I Need Your Story

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you." - Maya Angelou...

May 2014

May 30, 2014

I No Longer Wanted To Hide

"For the past 4-5 years I was hoping for the day that I would just...

May 05, 2014

Mom vs Dad – What Do You Do?

You have a gay child. Lots of new issues and challenges and late-night conversations. Some...

April 2014

April 24, 2014

Church Treatment of Gays: NOT the Way of Jesus

"A friend I'd had over for dinner just the night before wrote back questioning my...

April 22, 2014

Mom… Don’t Miss Your Daughter’s Wedding.

Close your eyes and picture your daughter's wedding day... it is a day she will...

April 18, 2014

Living Gay & Unashamed!

I don’t understand being in an intimate, loving relationship with a woman. If I did,...

April 15, 2014

Can We Stop Fighting Yet?

Okay, I grew up in a crazy household. We had seven kids altogether, but far...