Commentary: My Catholic mother-in-law didn’t rush to accept me as her gay son’s partner. But we surprised each other
by Douglas Braun-Harvey, Los Angeles Times
Jun 14, 2023
3 minutes
My mother-in-law died on June 3. We first met in her Wallingford, Conn., kitchen the day after Christmas in 1987. This was a few years after her son Al, my partner (now husband) of 36 years, first disclosed to her that she had a gay son. She was accepting but drew the line at “never wanting to meet a man Al was with.” A daughter of Irish-Catholic immigrant parents, she found it too much in
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