Dan Savage

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Part of me wants to wish a gay kid on this woman. But no part of me would ever want to wish a mom like that on a gay kid. Gay kids, lesbian kids, bi kids, trans kids deserve better. That said... You did a good thing. You did a great thing. You did an amazing thing. And you're not giving yourself enough credit here.

Part of me wants to wish a gay kid on this woman. But no part of me would ever want to wish a mom like that on a gay kid. Gay kids, lesbian kids, bi kids, trans kids deserve better. That said... You did a good thing. You did a great thing. You did an amazing thing. And you're not giving yourself enough credit here.

When you blew up at your friend about the shitty things she was saying about the school, about the public school where you're sending your daughter and the shitty things she was saying about queer people and the shitty things she said to her daughter about being a queer person or being a lesbian.

When you blew up at your friend about the shitty things she was saying about the school, about the public school where you're sending your daughter and the shitty things she was saying about queer people and the shitty things she said to her daughter about being a queer person or being a lesbian.

She texted you later and tried to walk it back and apologized and wanted to make sure that you two were still good. And you read that as disingenuous and you dismiss that. her sending you that text is just her trying to cover her ass. I heard that as you, by confronting her, by not letting it slide, you created in her some cognitive dissonance.

She texted you later and tried to walk it back and apologized and wanted to make sure that you two were still good. And you read that as disingenuous and you dismiss that. her sending you that text is just her trying to cover her ass. I heard that as you, by confronting her, by not letting it slide, you created in her some cognitive dissonance.

She realizes, even if it was a disingenuous text, she realizes on some level that the good person that she wants to be or wants to be perceived as being is in conflict with the shitty, homophobic, lesbophobic, ranting anti-vax lunatic that she was with you in that moment. So you can work with that.

She realizes, even if it was a disingenuous text, she realizes on some level that the good person that she wants to be or wants to be perceived as being is in conflict with the shitty, homophobic, lesbophobic, ranting anti-vax lunatic that she was with you in that moment. So you can work with that.

If her kid is going to be gay when her kid grows up, there are a lot of people out there who have wonderful, loving, supportive parents who are there for them and their same sex partners who were not there for them. in the same way when they were 12 or 15 or 18.

If her kid is going to be gay when her kid grows up, there are a lot of people out there who have wonderful, loving, supportive parents who are there for them and their same sex partners who were not there for them. in the same way when they were 12 or 15 or 18.

Parents do when they're faced with having a gay kid reach this fork in the road where they have to choose their bigotry or choose their kid. Used to be, you could pretty reliably predict that most parents would choose their bigotry or their faith tradition or whatever the fuck over their kid. That's why there were a lot of

Parents do when they're faced with having a gay kid reach this fork in the road where they have to choose their bigotry or choose their kid. Used to be, you could pretty reliably predict that most parents would choose their bigotry or their faith tradition or whatever the fuck over their kid. That's why there were a lot of

Gay and lesbian adults running around 40 years ago who were estranged from their families of origin. These days, more and more, increasingly now, it is the exception to meet a gay person who's estranged like that from their family of origin because their parents chose their bigotry and their homophobia or their transphobia or their whatever phobia over their own kids.