Thank you for writing about this! It's a topic that doesn't get a lot of attention, really. Coming-out narratives are supposed to be passé, aren't they? We queer people are supposed to have more interesting things to write about than our struggles to fit in.

Yet, when lesbian and gay people get together, we talk about stories like this A LOT, because they're our stories (our family) and they matter to us. I suppose family acceptance is going to increase and become increasingly normal, but I don't suppose that's going to be an automatic process.

We need to talk about it. We need to talk about the consequences of non-acceptance.

We can celebrate, like when I write about that time my evangelical Christian father came to New York City to spend a week with my partner and me. Visiting the way he did must have been difficult for him in many ways, but we all worked hard, the visit went great, and Dad became more than merely surface-accepting.

Thanks for sharing this story about twins who should have been able to count on their parents. Like me, they should have been able to count on that, but I'm really glad that the work they went through paid off.

Keep telling stories! We all have a lot to learn.