the family issue
Pieter Tolsma, Keo Frazier and George K. Gramer, Jr. weigh in on this week’s question.
There’s an amazing and beautiful amount of variety in the ways people in the LGBT community interpret family, and in who we consider part of our families.
When lesbian and gay parents have children who turn out to be lesbian or gay themselves, it brings new meaning to LGBT people referring to each other as ‘family.’
There are two sides of an HIV diagnosis: Hearing the news, and then breaking it. Figuring out who to tell and how to tell them can be almost as scary as finding out in the first place. For many, the first group on the docket is family.
Sometimes family bonds need to be forged anew when parents learn that a child is gay. So it was with Trish Pachak, who confronted her daughter about her suspicions 13 years ago.
