This page includes personal accounts, essays, and testimony of PFLAG members, friends, and allies.

Marriage Equality

A letter to President Bush – By Robert Graves

What Shall I Tell My Daughter – By Rev. Meg A. Riley

I Want to Go to My Daughter's Wedding – By Rochelle Hollander Schwab

A Changing Faith, A Changeless God – Thoughts on faith and sexual orientation – By Bradley J. Hull

Baseball eases way to acceptance of gay couple – By Barbara Warner

A Mother's Story – By Patricia Neale

Them to Us - A Difficult, but Necessary Journey – By a PFLAG Dad from Annandale, Virginia

Growing Up Gay in Fairfax County – By Martin Childers

Fathers, Be a Lion! – By Jim Pines

A Family's Unusual Blessings – By Tom Starnes

Silence – By Sheron Rosen

A Mother's Story – By Lanette Graves

Coming Out of the Closet – By German Lopez R.

The Wonderful Diversity Among Our Children – By B. Janeway

Statement in Support of Maryland House Bill Protection of Marriage Which Validates Marriage Between Two Consenting Adults

Oral Testimony of Sheron A. Rosen, of Gaithersburg, Maryland in Opposition to SB 565 regarding Same-Sex Marriage in the State of Maryland – Judicial Proceedings Committee, Maryland State Senate

PFLAG Is For Bubbies (Grandmothers) Too – By Catherine Tuerk

Mary Griffith's Story – By Robert Bernstein

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