not accepting should be unacceptable...

 (what is there not to love)

 (all my girls)

Since Gypsy baby came out to share with

us all that she is gay, I am shocked by the amount

of family and parents who are not accepting of

their childs' gender. 

It was only a few months ago that I have added

Gypsy's grown up life into my motivational testimonies

to teens. Since then, not one talk goes by that

a child does not ask to share with me that he/she is 

also gay. I also have come into contact with other teens

that say they are not accepted as being gay by their parents

and family.

I don't get it, I don't understand it,

it makes me sad, it makes me angry.

My gypsy baby being gay is compared here

to her brother being left handed. It was not 

a chosen thing, it is her.

To accept my children no matter what is my job as their Mother.

A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of

meeting the finest young man as he acted.

I shared with him after just how great he did

and he thanked me and explained that his parents

were not invited to this presentation as they would

not have understood his part he played, nor

are they acceptable of his being gay.

I could cry when I hear stories like this.

It's like I want to shake each of these adults

who "doesn't allow their child to be gay"

I wonder, if they knew they only had one day,

one 24 hour period, and then their child would

be gone, would that change their mind, their actions?

It has happened to a fine family I know of.

Refusing to be accepting

 of his lifestyle, they buried their child

without ever being able to accept who he was.

Today, while surfing the net, I find this

letter of a Daddy to his grown child

in reference to his grandson. Wish I could meet him,

wish I could hug him, I only hope that my gypsy baby

feels that I love her this much also and will forever

not only accept her but be willing to be an advocate

for her as a gay woman and to all those other gay people

in the world.