Zach Gibson came-out as bisexual on Facebook and the next morning he received a supportive note from his mom, who also reminded him to clean his room.
Though the LGBTQ community has made political and cultural strides towards acceptance and equality in the past decades, one of the hardest things for a young person questioning their sexuality to do has to be coming out to their parents. Certainly many parents still respond harshly but Michelle Conway McClain’s response to her son, Zach’s, confession that he is bisexual is brilliant. She sets up a message that is both supportive and loving, but that also reminds Zach (and us) that one’s value is not defined by who they want or have sex with, rather its defined by the cleanliness of their room—that last clause is a joke.
Originally posted to the NO H8 Campaign, link to it here
Cover Photo via Flickr/ Hound of Culann
I’m floored by this and other posts which make it seem that being kind and accepting is somewhat odd, or notable. It’s a scary world where a mother’s acceptance of her own son’s sexuality gains such traction on social media that it becomes ‘viral’. Has it become such a novelty that a woman accepts her child for being bisexual? This kind of media suggests that it is an anomaly, and that this mother has done something ‘special’ by simply doing what we should be doing as humans, and that is accepting one another rather than drwaing lines about what we… Read more »