Life

88-year-old granny shuts down her son’s casual homophobia with two sentences

88-year-old granny shuts down her son’s casual homophobia with two sentences
Photo: Wikipedia

A story about an 88-year-old woman shutting down anti-LGBTQ sentiment has gone viral on Twitter.

Twitter user Minovsky wrote that their father “ranted about how LGBTQIA+ identities were getting too confusing to keep up with.”

The father’s mother, though, wasn’t having any of it. “The way things are now is better than when people had to hide away or killed themselves because nobody understood who they were. Respect costs you nothing.”

https://twitter.com/MinovskyArticle/status/993273044499095552

The tweet has been liked over 160,000 times.

Minovsky explained that their grandmother has trans and bi people in her life, so respecting others isn’t new to her.

https://twitter.com/MinovskyArticle/status/993322157672452096

Of course, those relatives are also the dad’s relatives, so LGBTQ relatives don’t always make people more accepting.

Hopefully, 88-year-old grandmothers do.

Don't forget to share:

Support vital LGBTQ+ journalism

Reader contributions help keep LGBTQ Nation free, so that queer people get the news they need, with stories that mainstream media often leaves out. Can you contribute today?

Cancel anytime · Proudly LGBTQ+ owned and operated

Randy Rainbow’s ‘Rudy & the Beast’ parody will leave you shrieking with laughter

Previous article

New NRA President Oliver North has a long & sordid anti-LGBTQ history

Next article