Balancing Act: On 'Ellen,' a father's grief over his gay daughter and a call for us all to do better
by Heidi Stevens, Chicago Tribune
Dec 22, 2017
2 minutes
I know a Nathan Mathis. You might know one too.
Mathis is a father who loved his daughter but didn't love the news that she was gay. He'd been taught that her truth - whom she loved - was unacceptable. And he let her know as much.
"I told my daughter that I would rather my child was dead than to have a gay child," he has told
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