by Belinda Dronkers-Laureta on May 11th, 2016
Keeping Families Together The Asian And Pacific Islander Family Pride Blog November 2, 2012 Sometimes Acceptance Is Immediate, Sometimes It Takes Awhile By BELINDA AND JOHN DRONKERS-LAURETA A Mother TellsHer Story. The summer after he graduated high school, my son moved to Southern Califor...
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by Belinda Dronkers-Laureta on May 11th, 2016
Keeping Families Together The Asian And Pacific Islander Family Pride Blog August 31, 2012 What Is Success? How Is Progress Measured? By BELINDA AND JOHN DRONKERS-LAURETA How do you measure progress in the campaign to end homophobia? Do you count the number of laws passed that prohibit dis...
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by Belinda Dronkers-Laureta on May 11th, 2016
Keeping Families Together The Asian And Pacific Islander Family Pride Blog August 24, 2012 School Starts And We Haven’t Stopped Name-Calling By BELINDA AND JOHN DRONKERS-LAURETA Remember being taunted on the playground? You taunted back: “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words...
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by Belinda Dronkers-Laureta on May 11th, 2016
Keeping Families Together The Asian And Pacific Islander Family Pride Blog August 17, 2012 Are Labels Necessary? By BELINDA AND JOHN DRONKERS-LAURETA At a recent fundraising event we met a couple whom we hadn’t seen or had contact with for about six years. We caught up and, as parents ar...
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by Belinda Dronkers-Laureta on May 11th, 2016
Keeping Families Together The Asian And Pacific Islander Family Pride Blog August 10, 2012 Are Messages Of Love Sufficient To Drown Messages Of Hate? What Else Is Needed? By BELINDA AND JOHN DRONKERS-LAURETA A few days ago we came across a handwritten letter from a father to his gay son se...
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by Belinda Dronkers-Laureta on May 11th, 2016
Keeping Families Together The Asian And Pacific Islander Family Pride Blog August 3, 2012 How Difficult Is It To Be Yourself When Others Don’t Want You To Be? By BELINDA AND JOHN DRONKERS-LAURETA We read that Chavela Vargas died. Truth be told, we did not know who she was until we saw he...
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by Belinda Dronkers-Laureta on May 11th, 2016
Keeping Families Together The Asian And Pacific Islander Family Pride Blog July 27, 2012 Privacy Vs Disclosure: Being LGBT Is Still Not A Non-Issue By BELINDA AND JOHN DRONKERS-LAURETA Dr. Sally Ride died of pancreatic cancer at age 61. At the end of the obituary she co-wrote with her fema...
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by Belinda Dronkers-Laureta on May 11th, 2016
Keeping Families Together The Asian And Pacific Islander Family Pride Blog July 20, 2012 Do We Really Need More Coming Out Information? Yes! By BELINDA AND JOHN DRONKERS-LAURETA We’re at the National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance Conference in Washington DC. We came to learn and ...
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by Belinda Dronkers-Laureta on May 11th, 2016
Keeping Families Together The Asian And Pacific Islander Family Pride Blog July 13, 2012 How Do You Break Through The Conversation Wall? By BELINDA AND JOHN DRONKERS-LAURETA Our son and two of his friends spent a week staying at our home. They live in different cities—Chicago, Cincinnati...
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by Belinda Dronkers-Laureta on May 11th, 2016
Keeping Families Together The Asian And Pacific Islander Family Pride Blog July 6, 2012 An AIDS-Free Generation? Almost There By BELINDA AND JOHN DRONKERS-LAURETA AIDS 2012 will convene in Washington DC from July 22 to 27. Organizers are expecting 25,000 delegates to come and attend sessio...
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