Prof Robert Lopez shares his experience growing up with two moms

Fascinating article by Prof. Robert Lopez exposes the reality of growing up with two moms.  His story has been virtually ignored because, as he puts it, "I cherish my mother’s memory, but I don’t mince words when talking about how hard it was to grow up in a gay household."

 Prof. Lopez was in town today speaking with various marriage supporters.

Here are a few excerpts from this thoughtful article. 
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Quite simply, growing up with gay parents was very difficult, and not because of prejudice from neighbors. People in our community didn’t really know what was going on in the house. To most outside observers, I was a well-raised, high-achieving child, finishing high school with straight A's.

 My peers learned all the unwritten rules of decorum and body language in their homes; they understood what was appropriate to say in certain settings and what wasn’t; they learned both traditionally masculine and traditionally feminine social mechanisms.

I had no male figure at all to follow, and my mother and her partner were both unlike traditional fathers or traditional mothers. As a result, I had very few recognizable social cues to offer potential male or female friends, since I was neither confident nor sensitive to others. Thus I befriended people rarely and alienated others easily. Gay people who grew up in straight parents’ households may have struggled with their sexual orientation; but when it came to the vast social universe of adaptations not dealing with sexuality—how to act, how to speak, how to behave—they had the advantage of learning at home. Many gays don’t realize what a blessing it was to be reared in a traditional home.