A Strategy to Change Minds: Focus on the Gay Family

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A Strategy to Change Minds: Focus on the Gay Family

In response to California’s passage of Proposition 8, one couple used YouTube to show the world what a gay family with two adopted children looks like — a message that resonates this National Adoption Month.

Neither of them knew much about the future, but it looked bright when Jay Foxworthy and Bryan Leffew decided to register as civil partners in the state of California. It was Leffew’s birthday that clear night in 1998, and Foxworthy took him out for a night on the town, under the starlight, as two people in love do in San Francisco.

The following morning at breakfast, Foxworthy officially proposed with a birthday card slipped across a tiny table inside an IHOP restaurant. “I was not expecting it, so I cried, which made our waitress worry,” remembers Leffew.

Right then and there, beside a wide selection of eggs and pancakes, they felt an overwhelming sense of accomplishment. The only thing that stood in their way was a quick trip to the city clerk’s window where they would sign a white piece of paper. “I felt like I was married even before we signed,” Leffew said. “And I didn’t give a damn what anybody else thought about the legality of it.”

www.advocate.com/News/News_Features/A_Strategy_for_Changing_Minds_Focus_on_the_Gay_Family/

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1. They have a great series of YouTube videos

It's a nice view of gay family life.

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