PFLAG, the first LGBTQ ally organization for queer people and their families, celebrated its semicentennial at a gala in New York City this month.
Bettmann ArchiveIn 1982, David Holladay was 16 years old and about to come out to his mother. They lived in a small town in Oklahoma and attended a Baptist church. This was the era of Rock Hudson and Elton John and Billie Jean King, people whose names, he said, “were never far away from something derogatory.”What Holladay didn’t know then was that a movement was brewing that he and his family would be a part of for decades to come.
The parents of gays and lesbians were just beginning to gain visibility in the 1980s. They were slowly building a coalition that started with one mom in the early ‘70s:, an elementary school teacher from Queens, New York, who walked alongside her gay son, Morty, during the 1972 Christopher Street Liberation Day march . Her sign was a call to action for others like her. It said: “Parents of Gays: Unite in Support for Our Children.
The organization celebrated its semicentennial at a gala in New York City this month. In attendance was Suzanne Manford Swan, daughter of Jeanne and sister of Morty. Dia Dipasupil / Getty Images for PFLAG
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