Marcia Gay Harden to Mothers Who Don’t Accept Their LGBTQ Children: ‘You’re Making a Great Big Mistake’

The Oscar winner spoke while being honored by the Los Angeles LGBT Center.

By Marc Malkin

Marc Malkin

Senior Editor, Culture and Events

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Oscar winner Marcia Gay Harden offered impassioned — and at times, hilarious — advice for parents who don’t accept their queer children while being honored at the Los Angeles LGBT Center’s A Place We Call Home gala.

“We want to change things so that basic human queer rights are protected, so that we’re safe, so our children are safe, so that we have equal opportunity in the workplace, so that we’re not discriminated against, so we can marry or adopt children or serve in the military or church…I think it all starts in the home,” Harden said. “The people I need to talk to tonight are old, staunch, stubborn families.”

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