What to do if your child comes out
Deborah Mell was still in elementary school, 6th or 7th grade, when she began making bicycle trips to a neighborhood on Chicago's North Side where she could get a gay newspaper. At the newsstand, trying not to look like she was staring, she'd watch the openly gay men and women going about their everyday lives. "I was just curious," she says of her early trips to Boys Town. But she also went there "just to feel comfortable." Her father is Alderman Richard Mell, the tough and mouthy boss of the 33rd Ward. Based on Mell's take-no-prisoners persona, you might suspect that father and daughter were hurtling toward an explosion, the kind that rips families apart forever. What happened? It's a pretty great article on a family coming to terms with a lesbian daughter.
Chicago Tribune
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