It was September 2017. Our son, 16 yrs old and a sophomore in high school, sent a text to my husband and I on our family chat during his...

I am a mom to 4 beautiful boys living in the stunning mountains of the Wasatch front in Utah. Like most parents I had lots of...

I was raised in a very conservative evangelical religious background. I had been taught that homosexuality was an abomination and the...

By Lindsay Brunt Four and a half years ago, I walked into the Utah Pride Center with my son for the first time.  He’d been there before...

My dad was a gay man in the 80’s and 90’s and died from AIDS complications in 1998. I was 16 years old. I begin with this not for shock,...

At 14 years old, my son was bottled up inside himself and wouldn’t talk to me, so I begged him to write down whatever was bothering him....

My four children attended Catholic schools. My two oldest girls attended from pre-k through 6th grade, Robert from pre-k through 4th and...

I was one of those kids who was in church pretty much from birth. There was never a time in my life when I didn’t believe. I married a...

Last May, I had a conversation with my 30 year old child (via text) that I never expected. It happened on May 9th, 2018, at 4:37pm. My...

By Rachel Ellis When our oldest started intermediate school (sixth and seventh grade in our area), our once happy kid started to...

Eight years ago, in May of 2011, my middle child publicly came out as transgender. During the couple of months prior to that...

By Jaime Jara When I was young and vast opportunities lay before me, I aspired to have my life somehow impact the world for good. I...

By Shauna Jones I lost 45 pounds during my pregnancy with Beckett, my oldest child. I had a pregnancy condition called hyperemesis...

When the feelings of love and protection in your heart and soul are bigger than you are… When the desire you have for your child to be...

The dragon, as folklore, exists in almost every ancient civilization from the beginning of recorded history. They were often portrayed as...

Finding out my daughter Candice was gay was not something I was prepared for. She was always very feminine, wore make-up, kept her hair...

I am proud to belong to Mama Dragons, a worldwide network of mothers seeking to ensure a world where our LGBTQ children cannot only live...

Rachel shares her experience when her daughter came out as transgender and how she and her family found support and understanding amidst...

Mama Dragons has come a long way in a few years. At the start of 2014, Gina Crivello created a Facebook group for the 8-10 women who were...

As a mom with an LGBTQ child, Mama Dragons has been a source of strength and support for me from the very beginning. After my son came...