Sunday, October 19, 2003

a mother's reaction

This essay in today's British newspaper, The Observer, is by a mother reacting to the news from her 15 year old son that he is gay. I remember walking in one of the first AIDS walks in Austin many years ago and overhearing two teenage boys ask each other if they were gay. One of the boys said he didn't know for sure but that he was trying to figure it out. Moms like this one, conversations like the one I recalled didn't happen when I was a teenager in Waco, Texas.

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