I also imagine the look on my kids face as they try and understand why the nice people at their friend’s church say their moms are going to hell. The filmmakers invited my mother to speak her truth on camera as well, but, overcome with shame, she refused.

com, the Sell on Etsy app, and the Etsy app, as well as the electricity that powers Etsy’s global offices and employees working remotely from home in the US. But every once in a while we have a painful experience and we don’t have to wade in the muck for long, we find hope and inspiration more quickly. I’ve been thinking about my childhood a lot lately after the Vatican banned priests from blessing same-sex marriages earlier this month.

I personally didn’t really like this idea- I’ve only known people use their parents’ first names if they have had a falling out.

I’mfindingitparticularlydifficulttotakethispostseriously,butifyouare,franklyitsoundslikeyouandyourmotherneedtohaveaconversationhonestlyandperhapsevenadoctorinvolvedwiththisparanoia. They either had to publicly challenge the perception that they were harming their children or couldn’t raise them properly in a gay household — or go underground in closed communities to lives of secrecy. The only issue we encountered was within the product market- there weren’t many suitable products for mom and omie, other than completely bespoke products. By keeping their relationship hushed to the outside world, I learned that it wasn’t OK to be gay — a belief that took decades to undo.We’ve since expanded our range even more to include Pregnancy Journals suitable for all types of family as well.

I learned to suppress any burgeoning romantic feelings I might have felt for female friends, to play it cool and keep my guard up at all times. What of those kids who then become adults and try to force themselves into opposite-sex relationships in hopes of somehow making it work? My donor did his thing in the bathroom of my home, after which I was left to my own devices with the company of no one but my dog.

In an interview with celebrity blogger Perez Hilton, 50 Cent has spoken about growing up with a lesbian mother and how he came to understand her sexuality. In his book “ Radical Relations: Lesbian Mothers, Gay Fathers, and Their Children in the United States since World War II,” historian Daniel Rivers explains how gay parents in the ’70s and ’80s lived in constant fear of losing custody of their children. I went from that to making a ton of money and girls throwing themselves at me, and I wasn’t ready for that. MARK ALMOND: The march to war in the Middle East feels almost unstoppable and Britain will be drawn in.