“She is the mom who made it OK to love your LGBTQ kid.” Remembering Jeanne Manford: 'The mother of the LGBTQ ally movement.' - NBCOUT
Jeanne Manford marches with her son Morty in the New York City Christopher Street Liberation Day Parade on June 28, 1972.In 1972, a petite but determined mother from Queens, New York, marched alongside her gay son in the New York City pride parade. She hoisted a sign that read “"Parents of Gays: Unite in Support for Our Children.”
“She really is the mother of the LGBTQ ally movement,” Owen told NBC News. “She is the mom who made it OK to love your LGBTQ kid.”In 1973, Manford went on to found PFLAG, which originally stood for Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays. The first meeting, held in the basement of a New York City church, welcomed 20 people, according to Owen. Word began to spread, and parents whose children had come out to them were coming to meetings desperate for support.
“It went all over the country to small towns,” Faderman said, “and parents understood that was their responsibility to come out in favor of their gay kids.” Judy and Dennis Shepard speak onstage at Logo's "Trailblazer Honors" at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine on June 25, 2015 in New York City.After her son Matthew was murdered in a homophobic attack on the outskirts of Laramie, Wyoming, in 1998, Shepard and her husband, Dennis, started the Matthew Shepard Foundation, an advocacy organization that successfully lobbied for federal hate crime legislation. The Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr.
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