Supporting LGBTQ Kids
Gretchen Seefried, LCSW
October 2, 2019
My parents meant well, as most parents do; but they had grown up in an era of rigid racial, ethnic and gender stereotypes. Although they were never overtly unkind to people who didn’t fit into the narrow guardrails that lined the sheltered avenues they traveled, I was raised hearing the whispered qualifier, “well, she’s Jewish, you know,” and euphemisms such as “he’s a little light on his toes.”
