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Saving Alex: When I Was Fifteen I Told My Mormon Parents I Was Gay, and That's When My Nightmare Began Saving Alex: When I Was Fifteen I Told My Mormon Parents I Was Gay, and That's When My Nightmare Began by Alex Cooper
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“Just in the last few years there has emerged a group of Mormon mothers of LGBT kids who call themselves Mama Dragons, and they are standing up to defend and protect their children from abuse and misunderstanding.”
Alex Cooper, Saving Alex: When I Was Fifteen I Told My Mormon Parents I Was Gay, and That's When My Nightmare Began
“It’s hard to describe even now how much it meant to me. It really matters that there are people in conservative and religious communities who speak up for a loving and accepting God, even when others don’t.”
Alex Cooper, Saving Alex: When I Was Fifteen I Told My Mormon Parents I Was Gay, and That's When My Nightmare Began
“Family means simply choosing one another every day:”
Alex Cooper, Saving Alex: When I Was Fifteen I Told My Mormon Parents I Was Gay, and That's When My Nightmare Began
“let me be the one to put my arms around you and tell you what you deserve to hear as well: It gets better. It gets better for parents and families as well.”
Alex Cooper, Saving Alex: When I Was Fifteen I Told My Mormon Parents I Was Gay, and That's When My Nightmare Began
“let me be the one to put my arms around you and tell you what you deserve to hear as well: It gets better.”
Alex Cooper, Saving Alex: When I Was Fifteen I Told My Mormon Parents I Was Gay, and That's When My Nightmare Began
“their feelings of being accused and misunderstood, and my feelings of wanting to be seen and heard as who I was.”
Alex Cooper, Saving Alex: When I Was Fifteen I Told My Mormon Parents I Was Gay, and That's When My Nightmare Began
“I will not accept any sort of discrimination in this classroom, joking or serious. If I catch any of you engaging in that type of behavior, you will automatically fail the semester”
Alex Cooper, Saving Alex: When I Was Fifteen I Told My Mormon Parents I Was Gay, and That's When My Nightmare Began
“But even if you are gay and you don’t get into the celestial kingdom, God won’t want to deprive them, so there will be a copy of you with them,”
Alex Cooper, Saving Alex: When I Was Fifteen I Told My Mormon Parents I Was Gay, and That's When My Nightmare Began