Dad's Unexpected Advice To His Gay Son In The '50s

[HorseTears]

Posted: 6/27/14 at 11:13pm

Loved this story on NPR today. It's from their StoryCorps OutLoud series in which they're collecting oral histories from older generations of LGBT people.

"In the 1950s in rural Washington, a teenage boy learned an important lesson about self-acceptance. Patrick Haggerty, now 70, didn't know he was gay at the time, but says his father knew what direction he was headed..."

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[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 6/29/14 at 3:56pm

That's really touching, and sweet.