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[quote=Anonymous]When my now middle school twins were 2, there were two families with gay parents, one with two moms and one with two dads.

We told our kids that most families that one mom and one dad, but that it was okay to have two moms and two dads.  If our daycare had been celebrating pride we would have told them that this was to help everyone understand that it doesn't matter if a family has one mom, one dad, two moms, two dads or one of each.  Pride was our way of saying we like everyone's family however it is made up.

Nothing to do with sexuality, only about acceptance.

For me, the purpose of celebrating Pride when they are young is similar to developing color blind attitudes.  The way to change bigotry is to make acceptance the norm and to bring them up without these biases that one way is right or better than another way.  So, the way to make LGBTQ+ more accepted is to make it normal to be accepting of differences when they are young.  Then when they grow up, they will be less likely to see those people as "other" or "not normal".[/quote]

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