You tell ‘em, Momma!

Posted on November 4, 2008 at 01:27am

A story from a MMIAF reader:

I recently explained to my mom what “Yes on 8″ meant since there are a lot of signs in our neighborhood. We also just had two gay weddings in the family. On Thursday, at our neighborhood meeting, a woman running for a Senate seat in our district asked if we wanted a “Yes on 8″ sign for our lawn. I respectfully turned it down, but then my mom laughed and said loudly, “We cannot take! Our family has the gay!”

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  • Suze
    This... is pretty much amazing.
  • our world has the gay, we cannot take!!
  • anon
    i have the gay
  • kenji138
    Wow, this sounds like my mother when I came out. When we would go shopping together, she would point at a guy and say quietly, "Is he the gay too?"
  • Sippy
    your mommya ROCKS! XD
    if i could vote in the state of california, i'd definitely vote NO on 8!!!!!!!!
  • *hahahah* That's hilarious and awesome. It TOTALLY gives me the inclination to make a t-shirt for myself:

    "I Have The Gay!"
  • jadeheart
    I was just at my first gay wedding this weekend, one of the grooms is asian. His dad gave this beautiful speech about how he dealt with his own ego and accepted his son as "a gay". :) People were thanking him for the speech all night and he finally turned and asked his son, don't all parents love their children no matter what?
  • kako
    Sadly, apparently not.
  • Omok
    ._.; I'm honestly scared. Lol. I'm still young. sadly. Lol. but i don't think my mom will be anything like that father; nor the 'mother' in this above....joke? xD hahaha. XD *sighs* xD
  • some white guy
    Give your mom a hug for me.
  • Jort
    I can see the meme-potential on this.
  • Max
    I have 5 sisters, 2 are gay. Only 1 has come out to our parents. I want a T-shirt that says "we have the gay". I'm proud that my sister can let herself be who she his, but sad that the other is afraid of it. I am straight (kind of sure),but who should care who we love, as long as we love them? I wish I had the money to fight the Mormons to defeat them.
  • Julia
    Your Mum is awesome.
  • Rosa
    That warms my heart so much!!!!!! Thank you for sharing, because sadly, my Asian parents would never eeeeeever say that :(
  • hazelbroom
    Teh awsum.
  • i am the gay
  • nerdalert
    All your gay are belong to us.
  • guocks
    LOLLLLL. ahaha, nice reference.
  • Amber
    Haha ! My mom (who is Indian) and my best friend's mom (who is Filipino) BOTH say that. "Of the gay."
    It's hilraious.

    "You hang out with your friend Marisa so much are you of the gay now?"
  • Pamela
    So proud of you mom!
  • ally
    haha. your mom is aweshome!
  • jessica
    =) this post made me soo proud. im not gay, but strongly no on 8. =) im at school away from home and a permanent mail-in voter. my dad sent me my ballot with a coffee mug stain on it. AND, he took the pleasure of putting post-it's next to each proposition with a "yes" or "no" telling me which way to vote. =) i was very happy to find a "no" next to 8. haha.
  • ky
    your mom is the cutest thing EVER! i laughed so hard! wish i could get my mom to say something like that and not be in support of prop 8!
  • Suzie
    Your mom is pretty much like 12 different shades of awesome.
  • Ally
    For some reason I heard Margaret Cho saying this...
  • i loveee this
  • teachinenglish
    i think that's really amazing because i'm teaching english in korea where all of my adult students and native friends say "there are no gay people in korea. it's not common." as if you can choose...
  • Justin
    Unfortunately in Korea, you can choose to be miserable and that's about it :-/ Not gay myself but had two lesbian roommates who were dating. Ironically, I found myself spending more time in the kitchen than they did, while they watched football and other sports games on TV. O_o And my mom has DEFINITELY asked me if I've turned gay by having so many gay people in my life (3 people, total). I had to explain it doesn't work like that. She told me to go to med school if I know so much. *facepalm*
  • Tea
    :3
  • gaysian
    I'm so happy to read this. As a gay Asian, I find this story full of warmth and hope. Thanks for sharing.
  • Lauren
    So wonderful!! This made my day!
  • Adrian
    :)
  • VZG
    So amazingly awesome!
  • Sounds like my mother when I came out.
  • I was just at my first gay wedding this weekend, one of the grooms is asian. His dad gave this beautiful speech about how he dealt with his own ego and accepted his son as "a gay". :) People were thanking him for the speech all night and he finally turned and asked his son, don't all parents love their children no matter what?
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