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mahatmakanejeeves

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Mon May 1, 2023, 02:32 PM May 2023

How One Mother's Love for Her Gay Son Started a Revolution

When Jeanne Manford, the founder of PFLAG, found out that her son was gay, in the ’60s, she didn’t wonder how other people would react. “You don’t love him in spite of something,” she later declared on national television. “You love him.”

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How One Mother’s Love for Her Gay Son Started a Revolution
In the sixties and seventies, fighting for the rights of queer people was considered radical activism. To Jeanne Manford, it was just part of



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How One Mother's Love for Her Gay Son Started a Revolution (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves May 2023 OP
Really good read. Thanks. LakeArenal May 2023 #1
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