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January 25,
2007
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A Message from Jody M. Huckaby, PFLAG's Executive
Director
Oscar Wilde once wrote
that, “The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use
to oneself.”
I’d like to say that the same goes for our personal
stories.
Each week, I write to you to tell about what’s been happening
with PFLAG both here at the National Office and in the more than 500 PFLAG
chapters. Often I do take a cue from Oscar Wilde and pass on some advice or a
story. Occasionally, I ask for some too.
This is one of those weeks. I’m
foregoing my usual message to hang a “Help Wanted” sign on PFLAG.
I need
you to pass on your stories to us. We have two new big projects starting up here
at the National Office, but without your help, we can’t make them work.
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Families of Value: Personal Profiles of Pioneering
Lesbian and Gay Parents
By Robert Bernstein
With gay marriage
in the news, attention has turned to gay parents. Bernstein, author of Straight
Parents, Gay Children (1995), here portrays the gay and lesbian parents whose
intimate lives he explores as pioneers fighting a cultural battle to change
society. Growing numbers of children are raised in gay and lesbian households,
he says, with hard-to- access statistics ranging from 1 to 14 million. The
family stories he tells embrace a religiously conservative Protestant minister
who is the gay father of two, a pair of lesbian policewomen who battled for
extension of police death benefits, and a 12-year-old who, renouncing his
lesbian mom's Quaker pacifism, beats up a boy who calls her a "lezzie." While
some stories demonstrate the silver linings of storm clouds, one woman objects
that the media light shone on gay families is too often rosy: she recalls a
childhood spent in terror of being taken from her gay dad and his partner and of
fearing their house would be torched. A strong addition to sociology and gender
studies collections. (Booklist)
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American Airlines has been
a strong supporter of PFLAG for many years by providing round-trip airline
tickets for staff, particularly those in the Field & Policy Department.
The amount of donated tickets from American Airlines directly correlates
to the number of PFLAG members who purchase flights. This means that the more
you fly with American Airlines, the more donated tickets PFLAG will receive
allowing our staff to travel more. When booking travel, please consider using
American Airlines. You’ll find that their pricing is very reasonable. For PFLAG
is get credit for a flight, you must enter the PFLAG Business ExtrAA Account
Number (either on www.AA.com or booking on the phone). That number is 527590
When booking on www.AA.com, follow these instructions:
Step One – Choose your travel dates.
Step Two – Choose
the flights the best meet your needs.
Step Three – Login (If you have
an AAdvantage Number and a password, key it in. If not, click continue without
logging in.)
Step four – Confirm your itinerary.
Step five –
Complete passenger details.
Step SIX – important – key in the
Business ExtrAA Account Number (527590).
American Airlines is
critical to PFLAG and we hope you will support them in return. Remember, you
must book with the Business ExtrAA Account Number (527590) for PFLAG to get
credit.
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PFLAG
Phone: (202) 467-8180
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