By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
As a young single mother, Carla Kelley learned her middle child was gay. “I knew how dangerous it was to be gay then … and my first instinct was to protect him,” she says. She quickly grew to accept her son’s sexual orientation. Years later, in 1998, she was...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
Andy Wells grew up on a dairy and grain farm on a reservation in northern Minnesota. A poverty-stricken area home to the Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians, it lacked both good schools and a thriving job market. Wells nevertheless managed to get a master’s degree and...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
Twenty-one years ago, Eva Leivas-Andino, a political refugee from Cuba, was devastated when her son Paolo came out as gay. Terrified of what her family and friends would say she kept her son’s sexual orientation secret. On a visit to New York eight years later, Paolo...
