My Family Was a nice family couple with my beloving daughter name as lesbian ....
I never thought that I would have a daughter that was a lesbian. She certainly didn't look like the lesbians that we see on TV. So when my beautiful 19 year old daughter called me from school at 3:30 am crying I thought she had been in a car accident or was raped. It took her a few minutes to tell me what was the problem and all I could think of was she was hurt in some way. Her pain was the coming out process and having to tell her conservative parents that she "liked girls" was very difficultto say the least.
I was so relieved in that I thought she was physically hurt. We put her mind at ease that night and reminded her that her sexual orientation does not define who she is. She still has lofty goals for her young life and is still the beautiful, funny and talented daughter that we knew the day before. As time went on we had wonderful talks about how she is so lucky to have parents who love her just the ways she is and how many friends do not have that. She told me stories of parents that disowned their children when they came out and I was shocked to hear that parents would turn their back on their children.
Now my daughter is 20 years old and putting her talent to work as a filmmaker. A producer here in United State saw her reel and wanted her to come and make a movie in the New York City area. What an opportunity for a young girl to help write, direct and edit the movie Change of Life. Most movies we see are documentaries on GLBT, but not a full feature drama about a parent child relationship.
Change of Life is a story about a bigoted conservative minister who's lesbian daughter commits suicide on the air of his radio show. After he curses God he wakes up in a gay man's body and discovers intolerance and hate. Time is then changed and he finally gets to know his daughter on a different level. This was a real eye opener for me in that I have come across prejudice and ignorance about homosexuality because of this film. I am so glad to have this experience working with my daughter on this socially important film.
Every parent (Everybody) needs to see it.

Will Bob Shapira....

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