Just a Mom
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The mother of lesbian actress/comedian Ellen DeGeneres offers her own compassionate support and advice for gay men and lesbians and their family members in this account of her own struggle to accept her daughter
Betty DeGeneres Boeken
Betty DeGeneres is een Amerikaanse activiste die zich inzet voor LGBT-rechten. Als moeder van Ellen en Vance DeGeneres werd ze de eerste niet-homo woordvoerder voor het National Coming Out Project van de Human Rights Campaign. Haar activisme omvat ook een actief lidmaatschap van PFLAG. Ze kreeg aanzienlijke publieke aandacht na de veelbesproken coming-out van haar dochter Ellen in 1997.
"Mom, I'm gay." With three little words, gay sons and daughters can change their parents' lives forever. Twenty years ago, during a walk on a Mississippi beach, Ellen DeGeneres spoke those simple, powerful words to her mother. That emotional moment eventually brought mother and daughter closer than ever, but it was not without a struggle. In Love, Ellen, Betty DeGeneres tells her story: the complicated path to acceptance and the deepening of her friendship with her daughter, the media's scrutiny of their family life, and the painful and often inspiring stories she's heard on the road as the first nongay spokesperson for the Human Rights Campaign's National Coming Out Project. Insightful, universally touching, and uncommonly wise, Love, Ellen is a story of friendship between mother and daughter and a lesson in understanding for all parents and their children.