November 5, 2010, 4:03 pm
When Boys Dress Like Girls for Halloween
By TARA PARKER-POPE
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/05/when-boys-dress-like-girls-for-halloween/snip
The post, which is accompanied by a photo of her son sporting his colorful costume while sitting on a pumpkin, has gone viral, generating at least a million hits and more than 26,000 comments. The mother, identified only as Sarah, was interviewed by phone on CNN's "American Morning," where she said she and her husband were "flabbergasted" by the response.
"This seems to really have struck a chord, not just with gays, straights, bisexual and transgender," she said. "But a lot of biracial or special needs families have contacted me and said, "Thanks for supporting your son.' "
But on the same CNN program, a clinical psychologist, Dr. Jeff Gardere, accused the mom of "outing" her son by posting the photo on the Internet. "With all due respect, whether your child is gay or straight, I think you kind of outed him by putting him in the blog," Dr. Gardere said.
