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My Mom Came Out To Me At 15 — Having A Gay Mother Taught Me Acceptance
We all know love is love, but what about when your mom is gay?
My mother and I have a highly complex relationship. I have many problems with her, but they have nothing to do with her sexuality. That being said, when I learned she was a lesbian, it was hard for me to accept.
I believe everyone has the right to be happy in their skin and love whoever they want. But the thought of my mother being gay was hard for me to imagine. My mother was not the image I had of a lesbian. Before I get too far into my story, this happened in 1991, when I was 15.
My Mom's Tearful Confession
I grew up living with my grandma because my mother was undependable. She often couch-surfed and never had a stable home. Then there was that incident when she allowed her then-husband physically abuse me. So, CPS removed me from her home. But I still saw her regularly.
One day, mom called me and said she wanted to take me to lunch to discuss something. I didn't know what to expect, but I wanted to see her.
I thought of all the things she could want to say. I hoped she wanted me to live with her, as grandma was a little old-fashioned. But it wasn't that — she wanted to tell…
