On my mental soundtrack on this Mother's Day: the queer chorus I sing with performed this song earlier this year, and it hit me right between the eyes emotionally. The pain of my parents emotionally distancing themselves from me as I became ever more assertive about being my true queer self still rankles almost 50 years later.
"I come from good people
I have journeyed far from them
My mother and I are two of a kind
And I wear my father's face
I have left them far behind
We will meet in another place"