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Sally Field horrified by parents who turn away gay kids: ‘They’re having a hard enough time trying to be teenagers’
Last night I went to see Sally Field’s new movie Hello, My Name is Doris and it is a charmer.
How wonderful to see this great actress in a leading role in a movie again. If someone writes good roles for her, she will deliver!
Another role in which Sally has delivered is that of parent of a gay son.
Her handsome son Sam Greisman, is openly gay and Sally has been very publicly supportive.
She talked about being the parent of a gay son with EW Radio town hall on SiriusXM this week.
‘Sexuality is a human glorious part of existence. In Sam’s case nature told him what to be…I welcomed him to welcome himself and find that part of his life.’
To other parents whose kids come out to them the two-time Oscar winner says: ‘First of all, don’t be frightened. And don’t put your own prejudices or fears about sexuality — your own fears about sexuality – on your children.
‘What horrifies me is that there are parents who so disapprove, who are so brainwashed to think that this is something out of the Bible or ungodly or against nature. It’s not against nature if nature has actually done this. Sam was always Sam, this wonderful human that he is, from the time he was born.
“Some people actually shut their children out of the house when they’re young, they’re teenagers – they’re having a hard enough time trying to be teenagers and own any part of sexuality. I’m still trying to figure it out!’
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FAEN says:
I like you Sally Field, I REALLY like you.
joebatch says:
Faen, I’ll raise you. Sally Field,I really,really LOVE you!!!! She’s a truly talented,beautiful and wonderful person inside and out.
Sue Loveland says:
I absolutely do not understand how a parent can turn their back on their children when they finally find the courage to try to explain to their parents the situation they find themselves in…this is hoe GOD made them. They should be held, loved and told beyond a shadow of a doubt “you have their back”!!!!
Tom Nunnery says:
How wonderful Sally Field is.
FAEN says:
@Sue-Organized religion lobotomizes otherwise rational people.