In a day and age when growing up lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT) is an increasingly volatile experience, our mothers mean more to us now ...

When you watched how different your children were from others, you kept a nonjudgmental, open mind. In the absence of role models, you managed to let me be gay without knowing what that might mean, going against a homophobic stream so ingrained in the Filipino machista system.

The father of Jadin Bell spoke to HuffPost Live from the road after setting out on a cross-country journey in honor of his son, who committed suicide ...

Complete anonymity is getting in the way of what my blog posts are all about: reaching out to people and being damn proud of my kid. I'd like the opportunity to speak to more parents about celebrating our LGBT kids and meet more of our fabulous LGBT youth. So I've arrived at a compromise.

A Peruvian father faces allegations that he doused his son with gasoline and set him on fire after learning the 22-year-old was gay and HIV-positive. ...

LOS ANGELES — The 20-year-old son of basketball great Magic Johnson is surprised by the public interest in his being gay, something that he reve...

When my dad left to pick up some dinner, my mom, whom I've been out to for almost two years, said, "Your father saw your Facebook status when I left my Facebook up. The cat's out of the bag." You see, I hadn't told him.

Marie Osmond subtly re-affirmed her support of marriage equality in a poignant new interview. The singer-actress, who is currently promoting her n...

What happens when more than one of your children is gay? That was the case for Mary Rives, who appeared in a discussion about her experience in a H...

I was in fifth grade. I boarded the school bus and a sixth grade girl asked me if I was virgin. “No,” I said giving her a dirty look and findi...

The battle for gay marriage in China is heating up, as scores of parents of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) residents have penned an ope...

As our children grow, we look around and wonder, "Is this the right place for us to be? Is this where we want our children to grow up? What is the environment we've chosen teaching them?" These questions were heightened after our oldest son started identifying as gay at a young age.

PFLAG (Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays) founder and pioneering ally Jeanne Manford is set to receive a huge honor from President Ba...

The 15-year-old gay Oregon boy who had been put on life support after hanging himself from school playground equipment has died. An Oregon Health ...

This could, quite literally, be the sweetest coming out you'll ever see. Tumblr user ellende-generes, identified only as Laurel, presented her par...

Jeanne Manford, the founder of PFLAG (Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays) and an all-around pioneering straight ally in the LGBT right...

There was something about that look in my mother's eyes, in that moment. It took all my arrogance to protect myself from it, to seek refuge from the shocked stare, the battle in her face between heartbreak and fury. She was squeezing tightly to the silver watchband.

The new generation of parents are more accepting of their lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) children. But when is that acceptance not enou...

I didn't want anybody making fun of my son dressed up as a girl. I wanted to protect myself, too. If a boy wore a girl's costume, it meant he was going to be gay. And according to some, a boy was gay because his mother was overbearing. Overbearing mother meant bad mother.

What would you do if your 7-year-old son wanted to be a princess for Halloween? That was the premise of the latest installment of ABC's "What Would...

Everywhere I go, I meet people who also have a lesbian daughter. I'm starting to think that my part of the planet is simply adrift with young lesbian women.

I will always remember Aug. 16, 2011, because it's a day that truly changed my life. It was the day I wrote up a cute little story about my oldest son and his crush on Glee's Blaine and naïvely posted it to a blog.

A heartbreaking letter, allegedly penned by an unsupportive father to his gay son, has gone viral in the blogosphere. Originally uploaded to Reddi...

My coming out was so anti-climatic, when I think about it. I don't know what I expected. It was huge to me, but it wasn't to you. It didn't matter. Your look, your tone, your manner -- nothing changed. Nothing was different.

I woke up yesterday morning as if it were any other day. But just seconds into a beautiful late-June morning, my shocked husband gave me the most appalling news. "Your biological mother made a nasty comment about our book," he said.