Thursday, May 7
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Registration Required Below
A Special Program for Mother’s Day — In Partnership with Mental Health Connecticut & Triangle Community Center
“Mom, I have something to tell you…” While many mothers have heard these words, for some, it is the start of a conversation about coming out.
How a mother handles this conversation about sexual orientation can have an impact on a person’s future mental and emotional wellbeing. That’s the message of this award-winning documentary film, Mom, I Have Something to Tell You.
Join us for a 30-minute film screening and discussion with Rick Miller, a psychotherapist and the film’s producer and director.
The film brings together years of research about how mothers have often struggled with their support of their gay sons, and many also receive no support themselves. Mothers are almost always the first — and sometimes the only — person in a family with whom a gay son can be honest about himself; but mothers can find themselves in a very lonely place, because supporting their sons often means going against the values of a family and/or a community.
This program is open to anyone who would like information and guidance about supporting a loved one through the process of sharing their sexual identity.
About Our Speaker
Rick Miller, LICSW, is a psychotherapist, public speaker, workshop presenter, interviewer, and author. He is the founder and executive director of the nonprofit company Gay Sons & Mothers, which collects, celebrates, and shares worldwide narratives of gay men and their mothers to support LGBTQ+ training and awareness, enrich myriad diverse communities, and enable rapprochement, understanding, and healing. He is also the executive producer and director of the award-winning documentary, Mom, I Have Something to Tell You, which emerged from Gay Sons and Mothers’ research efforts.
Miller is the author most recently of Opening Up: A Communication Workbook for Male Couples, and is co-host of the podcast Modern Couples. He was a pioneer in creating mind/body and hypnotic scripts for gay men and wrote the first book exploring the topic. He writes a regular column for Psychology Today and is a frequent contributor to Psychotherapy Networker, Medium, and psychotherapy.net. Learn more about Rick at rickmiller.biz and gaysonsandmothers.org.
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