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Parents for love

National organization PFLAG turns 40

05.01.2012

Youth Line, the AIDS Committee of Toronto -- so many big, wonderful organizations contribute to the community and make a splash at the Pride parade, and this year one of them is passing a milestone.
 
Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) is marking 40 years of support and activism. It started in 1972, when Jeanne Manford wrote to the New York Post after her son, Marty, was beaten at a gay activist demonstration. She declared to the world, “I have a homosexual son and I love him.” Shortly after this Manford marched with her son in the predecessor to the Pride parade in New York carrying a placard, and a movement was born.
 
Now PFLAG has more than 350 affiliates throughout the US and a dozen other countries, including chapters throughout Canada and the GTA. PFLAG Toronto holds a support meeting on the first Wednesday of every month at 7:30pm, at Kimbourne Park United Church, 200 Wolverleigh Blvd.

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