Re: Governor's daughter, 18, says she is a lesbian
Yeah, Sting and Michael, Parents do disown their kids for coming out as gay. There used to be more people than now who disowned their kids cause they married an Oriental, a Black, a Spaniard.
I still remember the story of a local guy who caught his daughter "slipping around" with a black guy and shot them both dead, then was not even tried; there was no local coroner , only a police official and he was of the same mindset as the father and signed the death certificates as "accidental shooting".
The gay issue is much more emotional for some people than is reported in the news and of course the "shame" of the parent often prevents them from saying anything outside a tight group of family/friends.
This is also anecdotal, but I knew a guy back in the seventies whose father gave him money to stay away from the family including his own mother. He wouldn't take it and was disinherited. If he wanted to see his mom, they had to meet somewhere away from her home.
A guy I used to care for at the V.A. hospital in Houston, had his entire family drop him like a bad habit the minute they found out he had AIDS. That was his daughter who he had sent to an ivy league college, his son, and the man's siblings.
God bless you both for being so naive.
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