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Getting Used to Our New Reality
I was one of those kids who was in church pretty much from birth. There was never a time in my life when I didn’t believe. I married a...
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Finding Hope for the Future
By Rachel Ellis When our oldest started intermediate school (sixth and seventh grade in our area), our once happy kid started to...
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Here Be Dragons
The dragon, as folklore, exists in almost every ancient civilization from the beginning of recorded history. They were often portrayed as...
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I Choose My Child
Finding out my daughter Candice was gay was not something I was prepared for. She was always very feminine, wore make-up, kept her hair...
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Pride!
I am proud to belong to Mama Dragons, a worldwide network of mothers seeking to ensure a world where our LGBTQ children cannot only live...
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Rachel’s Story
Rachel shares her experience when her daughter came out as transgender and how she and her family found support and understanding amidst...
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The Birth of Mama Dragons
By Wendy Williams Montgomery We are a supportive group of mothers. We are champions of faith, family, and LGBTQIA+ communities. We are...
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It Was a Miraculous Mix of Organic and Divine
Mama Dragons has come a long way in a few years. At the start of 2014, Gina Crivello created a Facebook group for the 8-10 women who were...
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Our Beginnings
As a mom with an LGBTQ child, Mama Dragons has been a source of strength and support for me from the very beginning. After my son came...
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Un Momento Clave en mi Vida
Tenía aproximadamente un año de haber regresado de la misión, y aunque ya había tomado la decisión de hablar con mi familia no encontraba...
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The True Gift of Love
I don’t remember the exact month, but I found myself in a park in San Diego, California where I would often escape to, reflecting on life...
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The Gift of Massive Empathy
Our son came out to us just after high school graduation in 2014. It’s remarkable to me how much change can happen in such a short amount...
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Love is What Matters Most
I guess I’ve always suspected that our oldest son, Christian, was gay. His development was atypical of most boys. He loved The Little...
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Expanding the Harbor for Mothers in 2019
Life is unpredictable. Just when you think you’ve got it all figured out, opportunities open up and you find yourself looking back and...
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The Power of a Mother’s Love
I want the world to know that my son was conceived with a lot of love, and that from the beginning he was a wonderful and beloved child....
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El poder del amor de una madre
Quiero que el mundo sepa que mi hijo fue concebido con mucho amor y que desde el principio fue un niño maravilloso y querido. Me di...
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What I Believe
By Rob McMaster, with forward by Laura Howells Leavitt The LGBT Christian church experience can be lonely and isolating. In our places of...
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A Celebration of Love
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you – Maya Angelou I was born a Mormon. This statement reflects what has...
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Real Friendships
My husband comes from a very large Mormon family (he has 84 first cousins- just on his dad’s side). They are like a giant group of...
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Celebrating the “Awesome, Splendid Mess” of Marriage
June is traditionally the month of weddings. Who would have thought even a few years ago that some of those weddings could be for our...
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