Showing posts with label Touching Stories. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Touching Stories. Show all posts

Thursday, November 4, 2010

Work It, Daphne!


Here is a great story about an extremely loving and understanding Mom - and her 5-year old son. Said son is a huge Scooby Doo fan, and decided that he wanted to be Daphne for Halloween. His mother got him the costume and took him to his church pre-school - and here's what happened:
Two mothers went wide-eyed and made faces as if they smelled decomp. And I realize that my son is seeing the same thing I am. So I say, “Doesn’t he look great?” And Mom A says in disgust, “Did he ask to be that?!” I say that he sure did as Halloween is the time of year that you can be whatever it is that you want to be. They continue with their nosy, probing questions as to how that was an option and didn’t I try to talk him out of it. Mom B mostly just stood there in shock and dismay.
And then Mom C approaches. She had been in the main room, saw us walk in, and followed us down the hall to let me know her thoughts. And they were that I should never have ‘allowed’ this and thank God it wasn’t next year when he was in Kindergarten since I would have had to put my foot down and ‘forbidden’ it. To which I calmly replied that I would do no such thing and couldn’t imagine what she was talking about. She continued on and on about how mean children could be and how he would be ridiculed.
My response to that: The only people that seem to have a problem with it is their mothers.

This incredible mom adds:
And my little man worked that costume like no other. He rocked that wig, and I wouldn’t want it any other way.
Read the entire story HERE. This woman should be named Mother of the Year, and her son should be named The Next Drag Superstar - Preschool Division.


Hat tip: Towleroad

Monday, October 25, 2010

Star Trek: Gay, Gay, Gay then "Awwwwww"

Gay


Gay


Gay


James: "I got a fan letter, from a young lady. It was a suicide note. So I uh, I called her. I said, ‘Hey this is Jimmy Doohan. Scotty of Star Trek.’ I said,‘I’m doing a con in Indianapolis. I want you to be there.’ I saw her and, I couldn’t believe what I saw. She was definitely suicidal. Somebody had to help her somehow. And obviously she wasn’t going to the right people. Anyhow I said, ‘I’m doing a convention two weeks from now in St. Louis.’ Two weeks from then and something and then she came to New York. And she was able to afford to go to these places. And this went on for two or three years. Maybe eighteen times. And all I did was talk to her, positive things. And then all of a sudden, ZIP. Nothing. I didn’t hear anything I didn’t know what was happening cause I never saved her address. Eight years later I get a letter saying, ‘I do want to thank you so much for what you did for me, because I just got my masters in electronic engineering.’ You know, to me, thats the best thing I have ever done in my life. And it brings tears to my eyes every time I even talk about the story".
Awwwwwwwwwww ...


BTW - I had no idea there was so much gay subtext on Star Trek. Did watching Kirk, Spock and fierce Lt. Uhura as a child turn me gay??...


Attention: Anita Bryant, NOM, Focus on the Family, Dr. Laura, Pope Benedict and Westboro Baptist Church - 

Don't blame ME, blame Gene Roddenberry.

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