Dear Abby: lessons learned about embracing gay loved ones

Published: September 20, 2007, 11:00 am

Tags: uncategorized, glbt, family matters

It's never too late to learn that homophobia is a waste of time and energy and separates loved ones for reasons that seem absurd in hindsight. This elderly woman learned the hard way when her straight relatives turned her away after she was widowed, but the gay son (and partner) she ostracized turned the other cheek and took her in. She wrote to Dear Abby: DEAR ABBY: My husband and I raised our two sons and two daughters. One son and both daughters married well. Our other son, "Neil," is gay. He and his partner, "Ron," have been together 15 years, but Neil's father and I never wanted to know Ron because we disapproved of their lifestyle. When I was 74, my husband died, leaving me in ill health and nearly penniless. No longer able to live alone, I asked my married son and two daughters if I could "visit" each of them for four months a year. (I didn't want to burden any one family, and thought living out of a suitcase would be best for

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