My "I am a PFLAG Mom" T-Shirt
Last year my daughter sent me this T-shirt for Mother's Day. I have worn it many, many times in Naples, Florida. I usually get either a dumb stare, or people looking at it trying to sound out the letters; P F L A G. Clueless here.
I was wearing my shirt today in the supermarket. It was very crowded with all the Super Bowl shoppers. As I was pushing my cart down the aisle, I suddendly heard clapping, and a yell, "YEA, PFLAG!!!!!" What??? A man in his 50s came up to me and said, "Thank you, PFLAG Mom". He then told me that he and his Partner were from the state of Washington and had been together for 25 years. "Isn't it GREAT that Washington is going to pass Marriage Equality"? "My Partner and I can FINALLY get married!" He told me that they didn't want to go searching about the USA to find a state to marry in. They wanted to marry at HOME. I then told him that my daughter was a New Yorker and felt the same way. She and her partner didn't want to go to Connecticut to marry either, as many of their friends did. I told him she had gotten engaged soon after New York passed Marriage Equality.
I wished him Good Luck with the vote in Washington and Best Wishes for his marriage. He told me to wish my daughter and her fiance the same.
Such a nice man, and a very nice conversation, all beginning with just a T-Shirt.
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