The Tony Awards were last night and, like we do every year, lgbt performers showed out.
However, for my money, the best of the night goes to when openly gay performer Billy Porter received Best Actor in a Musical for his performance in Kinky Boots.
It wasn't just the win and it just wasn't his speech. It was when he paid tribute to family and particularly how his mother accepted who he was as a gay man (staring at 28 seconds) even though she didn't fully understand his orientation.
While it may seem like a small detail to some, it's a huge detail to me. It's not a matter that Mr. Porter's mother could understand her son's sexual orientation, it's the fact that she didn't desert him.
Sometimes that one thing - i.e. the faith that a parent has in his or her lgbt child - is the difference between life and death.
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