When I see this video I am moved to tears. I know it has been shown millions of times over, but it brings me back to my own coming out to my family which initially started through a letter being left by yours truly on the passenger seat of my Moms car and a talk I had with her subsequently after in the basement of our suburban Burlington home by the washer & dryer. My Father and I never really did the whole coming out talk. I knew through my Mom that he still loved me even if being Gay was what I was. My Dad was and is a man of few words and does not express outward emotion often so I chose not to push the issue any further at that time and instead trust my Mothers word that everything was OK. Moving forward a few years. I was in a committed long distance relationship at the time with a man who is now one of my dearest friends. He was skilled in Computer Technology and had flown into Burlington to see me for a long weekend. My Father was having issues with his computer and asked my then boyfriend if he might stop by and take a look at the problem. He obliged kindly (much to my annoyance considering our time together was so infrequent) and went to work on trying to fix the problem while I sat impatiently out in the living room waiting for the chance to get back my boyfriend from my Fathers demand. At around 1:00 AM I was about ready to go in and steal my boyfriend back from tech hell when my Dad came out of the room and said to me, Hey, go get this guy a glass of water will ya? Hes been working hard and could use a drink. It was then that I truly was given the gift of knowing that my Dad respected me and respected who I was and approved of my choice in a companion (as funny as that may sound). He saw in my boyfriend a human being and not a gender. He saw the character of the person I chose to be with and the love I had for him and the love and care that he had for me. He may have indirectly told me years before that he was OK with who I was, but for me it was that one moment that demonstrated his true acceptance of that fact. A moment that I will not forget until the day I die. Or maybe he was just happy his computer was being fixed. Either way, Ill take it! https://youtube/watch?v=L3K0CJ8usPU
Posted on: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 04:58:14 +0000
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