A Mother Tries To Understand Her Daughter's Gender Identity
A mother and daughter talk about what it means for them to come out as lesbian in different eras, and how labels — or a lack thereof — have shaped their coming out stories.
Lynn Girton, 69, never came out as a lesbian to her parents. She never even heard of the term lesbian growing up in a Christian household in Ohio. She dated men, because that was what she says was supposed to do.
Then at a summer job, she met Pat Freedman.
"We fell in love, and we did not know what that meant," Girton says. "We
