{"id":2014,"date":"2019-10-11T04:39:56","date_gmt":"2019-10-11T04:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pinkarmenia.org\/news-events\/letter-to-a-parent-love-isnt-valued-in-this-city\/"},"modified":"2023-04-26T07:50:54","modified_gmt":"2023-04-26T07:50:54","slug":"letter-to-a-parent-love-isnt-valued-in-this-city","status":"publish","type":"news_events","link":"https:\/\/pinkarmenia.org\/en\/news-events\/letter-to-a-parent-love-isnt-valued-in-this-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter to a parent. Love isn&#8217;t valued in this city"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-left: 280px; text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em>LGBT persons wrote letters to their families. The organization\u2019s\u00a0volunteers read them and made videos.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Hi, Mom.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe you&#8217;ll be surprised that I&#8217;m writing you a letter instead of talking with you, but I have many things in my life which I can&#8217;t say that&#8217;s why I have to write. I hope one day I could.<\/p>\n<p>I have to ask you to write an answer instead of telling me anything because now I can&#8217;t speak to you.<\/p>\n<p>I thought a lot before making this, and I&#8217;m pretty sure you&#8217;ll appreciate my candor; you always loved it. All this time you didn&#8217;t know one thing. I kept it, I lied or something else &#8211; doesn&#8217;t matter.\u00a0 The significance is you didn&#8217;t know about it.<\/p>\n<p>I assume &#8211; you always knew. Oh, how could you not know when there&#8217;s something big bothering your child. Bothers me not the loving someone, but exactly to love in general. Mostly, love isn&#8217;t valued in this city, and this brings big problems.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, Mom; I am many things &#8211; I love boys, I love girls, these two types of love I like very much, beyond all measure.<br \/>\nA lot of people say I can&#8217;t seem to make up my mind. But that&#8217;s a lie!<\/p>\n<p>Imagine you like just only orange and don&#8217;t like an apple. It would be bad, isn&#8217;t it? So the same thing is in me &#8211; I can love both. And nothing is changing, no. I still love. I&#8217;m still the same person.<\/p>\n<p>Mom, I have no idea how you feel now, but I feel very bad, very lonely, vulnerable and abandoned. When I imagine you&#8217;ll feel bad reading this, I feel bad too.<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;m sure everything will be all right, cuz I know, I remember how you love me; I remember you told me &#8211; no matter what you&#8217;re gonna be right there with me.<\/p>\n<p>I believe you, Mom.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u0546\u0561\u0574\u0561\u056f \u056e\u0576\u0578\u0572\u056b\u0576\u2024 \u0537\u057d \u0584\u0561\u0572\u0561\u0584\u0578\u0582\u0574 \u057d\u0565\u0580\u0568 \u0579\u056b \u0563\u0576\u0561\u0570\u0561\u057f\u057e\u0578\u0582\u0574\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XO-OMVCZMpU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LGBT persons wrote letters to their families. 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