I like this video...it's been kicking around for a bit now, and I enjoy it every time I stumble on it. You can access it through the link below.
'Don't Sneak': A Father's Command to His Gay Son in the 1950s
Oct 11, 2015 | 278-part series
Video by StoryCorps
Patrick Haggerty was a teenager in rural Dry Creek, Washington, in the late 1950s. In this StoryCorps animated short, The Saint of Dry Creek, he remembers the advice his father, a dairy farmer, gave him when he realized his son was gay. Haggerty's interview was recorded as part of the StoryCorps OutLoud initiative, and this film is in partnership with the It Gets Better Project.
http://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/409927/don … the-1950s/
'Don't Sneak': A Father's Command to His Gay Son in the 1959 (AKA, The Saint of Dry Creek)
thanks for posting.. great video..
When I came out to my mother I was 19. The first thing she said was "YOU HAD TO WAIT TILL YOUR FATHER DIED TO TELL ME?" I think secretly I did when in fact, looking back now I think my father would have handled it better than my mother. She cried. I said, you always knew I was gay and she said I knew you were different but I thought you would change. Well I didn't change, she did. My father was the patron saint of sissy's, except as my mother would always say it was CISSY with a C. Yes moms name was Cissy which as a kid embarrassed me more than the fact that I was a sissy. What embarrassed us (me) when we were kids, looking back makes me feel so proud today......
@art4--Since you've tried other links, I would recommend trying another browser. Videos from The Atlantic, for me, will not play on Microsoft's Internet Explorer but play on Firefox with without any problems. If you don't have any other browsers on your computer, you might first, before installing another browser, clear your existing browser's history cache--sometimes that's a quick fix.
Does not open for me - neither this link nor others I've tried.
Heartwarming piece. And good advice. Too bad more gay men from that time period didn't hear it and follow it instead of marrying women and sneaking around.
Beautiful... Truly Beautiful.