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You‟ve honored me this evening to a degree I feel I don‟t yet deserve. When I read about the work of my fellow honorees, I felt humbled and certain that among us I am the one with much to prove I believe I‟ve received this award not so much because of what I‟ve done but because of the way I was born and raised. I was born the younger sister of a gay man. My older brother Mike and the daughter of parents who were both empathetic to and loving of the LGBT community. In my household, being gay was and is no big deal. When my brother came out, we hugged him said we loved him, and that was that. When he brought his first boyfriend, now husband home for a couple weeks one Christmas my father‟s only comment to my mother was: please try not to mix up our underwear. We had no idea that I would become recognizable because of my work and that we would become publicly labeled as having an “alternative family lifestyle”. Just for the record, we don‟t feel that there is actually anything alternative about our family values. So for semantic reasons only it‟s with some hesitation that I accept the HRCLI award. I don‟t consider myself just an ally to the LGBT community. I consider myself your family and so. I‟m doing, what we should all do, with our families. I
‟m loving you, I support you, I completely accept you as you are, as I hope you do me and if anyone, ever, tries to hurt