TEDxTalk: The Mother Factor: Acceptance Works Both Ways

• Mom is the person who potentially has the greatest impact on her son’s life and his psychological well-being- especially in communities where he has been treated unfairly due to being gay.

• Up until well into the 70s, the medical community blamed mothers for making their sons gay. Imagine the impact this had on women, their husbands, and their sons.

• So you’d think that a lot of mothers were rejecting their sons, but historically that isn’t true.