Lesbian Mom: Lesbian Mom Notebook, Mother Gift, LGBT Mother Journal, 200 pages, 8.5 x 11

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The year was 1979; six years previous, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual had removed homosexuality from its list of mental illnesses, but the psychologist tasked with evaluating each of my family members apparently never got the memo. In a desperate attempt to keep the family afloat, she started working multiple jobs - and while Jay-Z has admitted that some moments of his childhood were 'tough,' he has been very adamant about thanking his mom for doing 'whatever she had to do' to ensure that he and his siblings were safe. She didn’t get caught up in her own feelings of shame and rejection from Jesus and the disciples, but as a mother stayed focused on what her daughter needed and that gave her courage to not stay silent.

She can get up in the morning and get herself breakfast, allowing me to catch a few extra minutes of sleep.In his book “ Radical Relations: Lesbian Mothers, Gay Fathers, and Their Children in the United States since World War II,” historian Daniel Rivers explains how gay parents in the ’70s and ’80s lived in constant fear of losing custody of their children. Impressed with my father’s six-figure income and his weekly attendance at the local Baptist church, the judge awarded him full custody.

Gloria was forced to raised Jay-Z and his three siblings by herself, after her husband-of-13-years and the musician's father, Adnes 'AJ' Reeves, abandoned the family when he was only 11. Things in my current life couldn’t more different from the Facebook photo where my wife and I were in a rooftop pool in West Hollywood with our heads popping out in-between three guys in “Equality” speedos.Her life, like all of our lives, was complex and filled with good and bad but the trauma she experienced after coming out colored so much of the way she lived after she finally found the courage to step out of the closet. Fortunately, Bautista's wealth and fame have supported his mom even in the smallest struggles, and despite his issues with money, he's clearly in a good place now.