Comments on: The Newest Boston Baked Bean: Family Pride adds Julia Bean to the Team! http://www.familypride.org/blog/2007/09/the-newest-boston-baked-bean-family-pride-adds-julia-bean-to-the-team.html love. justice. family. equality. Fri, 5 Sep 2008 20:34:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3 By: Lesley http://www.familypride.org/blog/2007/09/the-newest-boston-baked-bean-family-pride-adds-julia-bean-to-the-team.html#comment-4236 Lesley Wed, 26 Sep 2007 18:14:36 +0000 http://www.familypride.org/blog/2007/09/the-newest-boston-baked-bean-family-pride-adds-julia-bean-to-the-team.html#comment-4236 Bravo Julia for being so supportive of your mother. Some children are not as accepting as are some spouses. It's a shame wheneveryone thinks a child is better off with the "straight parent". Lesbian and gay men make just as good a parent as a hetero does. I hate the discrimination. I'm just a lesbian that had hoped to be a mom. My mom was not to reseptive when I came out at 29. If I brought my "wife" home with me I was to tell everyone she's my friend. After we broke up I went back in the closet and didn't come back out til this yr at the age of 50. I just decided to stop living a lie and be who I am. I'm proud of who I am and the people around me are very supportive. There's a few homophobes, I just chose to ignore them. I'm glad you're getting involved in the groups. Bravo Julia for being so supportive of your mother. Some children are not as accepting as are some spouses. It’s a shame wheneveryone thinks a child is better off with the “straight parent”. Lesbian and gay men make just as good a parent as a hetero does. I hate the discrimination. I’m just a lesbian that had hoped to be a mom. My mom was not to reseptive when I came out at 29. If I brought my “wife” home with me I was to tell everyone she’s my friend. After we broke up I went back in the closet and didn’t come back out til this yr at the age of 50. I just decided to stop living a lie and be who I am. I’m proud of who I am and the people around me are very supportive. There’s a few homophobes, I just chose to ignore them. I’m glad you’re getting involved in the groups.

]]> By: Harry Nagendra http://www.familypride.org/blog/2007/09/the-newest-boston-baked-bean-family-pride-adds-julia-bean-to-the-team.html#comment-4232 Harry Nagendra Wed, 26 Sep 2007 16:26:59 +0000 http://www.familypride.org/blog/2007/09/the-newest-boston-baked-bean-family-pride-adds-julia-bean-to-the-team.html#comment-4232 Eileen, when you told that mother to "teach love, not hate". How did she react? Eileen,

when you told that mother to “teach love, not hate”. How did she react?

]]> By: Luis http://www.familypride.org/blog/2007/09/the-newest-boston-baked-bean-family-pride-adds-julia-bean-to-the-team.html#comment-4231 Luis Wed, 26 Sep 2007 16:18:23 +0000 http://www.familypride.org/blog/2007/09/the-newest-boston-baked-bean-family-pride-adds-julia-bean-to-the-team.html#comment-4231 Hi Julia! Awesome intro. article! I especially loved the fact that you took the initiative to learn more about LGBTQ issues and decided to join the fight for equality. Welcome to the team! Hi Julia!

Awesome intro. article! I especially loved the fact that you took the initiative to learn more about LGBTQ issues and decided to join the fight for equality.

Welcome to the team!

]]> By: Eileen http://www.familypride.org/blog/2007/09/the-newest-boston-baked-bean-family-pride-adds-julia-bean-to-the-team.html#comment-4230 Eileen Wed, 26 Sep 2007 15:20:35 +0000 http://www.familypride.org/blog/2007/09/the-newest-boston-baked-bean-family-pride-adds-julia-bean-to-the-team.html#comment-4230 HI Julia, Wow I loved reading your little piece, and I am very interested in the youth groups you will be working with. You wrote below about your mom's new title, and if that all of a sudden makes her a target...My kids experienced that when I left an unhappy marriage, and found happiness with a woman. I am shocked at how people treat my children..They are kids, they have NO predujice, just what they are taught, and I will tell you people are mean and nasty, exspecially what they are teaching their kids. I said to one mother who told her daughter she can NO longer play with mine because I am gay, teach LOVE, not HATE. The girls are 10. I aplaud you on your work, good luck. "As one of my best friends, my mother has always embodied ultimate compassion, selflessness, and undying love. If her fairly recent title of “lesbian” all of a sudden makes her a target of criticism and a “questionable” parent, I can’t just sit still and allow these fallacious ideas continue to build and snowball in our society" HI Julia,
Wow I loved reading your little piece, and I am very interested in the youth groups you will be working with.
You wrote below about your mom’s new title, and if that all of a sudden makes her a target…My kids experienced that when I left an unhappy marriage, and found happiness with a woman. I am shocked at how people treat my children..They are kids, they have NO predujice, just what they are taught, and I will tell you people are mean and nasty, exspecially what they are teaching their kids. I said to one mother who told her daughter she can NO longer play with mine because I am gay, teach LOVE, not HATE. The girls are 10. I aplaud you on your work, good luck.

“As one of my best friends, my mother has always embodied ultimate compassion, selflessness, and undying love. If her fairly recent title of “lesbian” all of a sudden makes her a target of criticism and a “questionable” parent, I can’t just sit still and allow these fallacious ideas continue to build and snowball in our society”

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