Parents of a Gay Son

by Artemae Anderson Jerry and I are parents of six children.   One of our sons, Brian, is gay.  One of our daughters, Mary Colleen, is lesbian.  This is the story of their “coming out” to us and how we have journeyed through that experience. In 2002, Brian was out of college and living in New [...]

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Announcing the new Catholic parents group in Springfield, MA, this article will soon appear in the Greater Boston PFLAG newsletter. Printed here with permission of the authors, co-founders of the group. “Being Catholic is in my bones,” my friend pronounced. It seems that despite her best efforts, she can not deny the influence her Church [...]

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From the Good Shepherd Church, Menominee Falls, WI newsletter [Published in February 2006 Fortunate Families newsletter] We became aware of our youngest son’s struggle with his sexual orientation when he was 16. (His awareness started long before this time.) When we discovered some of his writings expressing his feelings that he might be gay, we [...]

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