PFLAG, the nation’s largest LGBT family and ally organization, recently released a heartfelt video about coming out — but there’s a twist. Though coming out is a scary prospect for many LGBTQ+ individuals, the coming out process, as the video mentions, also includes the parents of those individuals and their process of coming out as […]
Today, the coming out stories that we hear about are generally by youth or those in their 20s. However, there’s a certain part of the LGBT population that has a very unique experience when they come out — parents with kids. Though attitudes about the LGBT community have changed over time, a new documentary on […]
Magic Johnson appeared on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” this week and in addition to talking about business and supporting politicians, Johnson also gave advice for other parents whose children come out. Johnson’s son EJ came out in 2013 and has been a reality star on “Rich Kids of Beverly Hills” and “EJ NYC.” When Ellen […]
In The Next Family’s recent Youtube video, Susan and I sat down to answer a few questions from our audiences. Things started off a bit humorous with my wife forgetting when and why I gave her the special necklace she wears around her neck. But as always, our funny banter turned into something a bit […]
It’s not easy for all parents to immediately accept or understand when their children come out as LGBT, especially when they live in cultures in which anything associated with being LGBT is largely foreign or not discussed. In a video shared by Home is Love, we meet one such parent — a 65-year-old Taiwanese father with […]
This weekend Kristen Stewart, star of the Twilight films, hosted SNL. Before accidentally dropping the “F bomb” on live television — a mistake she clearly didn’t mean to make — Stewart shared something very significant. She called herself “gay.” Now it’s no surprise that Stewart has dated women in the past like Alicia Cargile, and […]
By Brandy Black It has been one year since I have taken my wife and kids on a video journey to share our family story with YouTube and our readers. There weren’t that many families like ours in the YouTube space and we thought it would be an opportunity to help share and normalize LGBT […]
By Brandy Black After the release of our The Art of Coming Out on YouTube article on The Next Family, my wife and I felt compelled to talk about life after coming out.
By Rob Watson Sunday night was a cornucopia of LGBT television. First came the Golden Globes with a full offering of heartwarming equality affirmations from wins for Transparent ,including a call out for Leelah Alcorn, to a win for Matt Bomer in which he again asserted his standing as a proud gay dad in the […]
By Rob Watson Last week another young person, Daniel Pierce, was thrown out of his home for being gay. I have written about this on a number of occasions covering such events in the United States, Nigeria and Uganda. What made this event unique? This time the event was recorded. Trying to imagine the evil […]
