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Title: Raised In The U.S. And Coming Out To Immigrant Parents
Post by: DriftingCrow on January 24, 2014, 10:10:08 PM
http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2014/01/23/262792630/raised-in-the-u-s-and-coming-out-to-immigrant-parents
Jasmine Gards; NPR

NPR's Jasmine Garsd explored how some Latin American immigrant parents interact with their gay children who were born or raised in the U.S.

[After coming out to his mother] "She starts crying and says, 'We love you no matter what and will be as supportive as possible. But do you realize you are already a brown Latino man? How are you going to handle another label?' "

[Audio: 4 min 46 seconds]