Love, Ellen: A Mother/Daughter Journey

¡ Harper Collins
3.3
120 reviews
Ebook
402
Pages
Eligible

About this ebook

"Mom, I'm gay." With three little words, gay children can change their parents' lives forever. Yet at the same times it's a chance for those parents to realize nothing, really, has changed at all; same kid, same life, same bond of enduring love.

Twenty years ago, during a walk on a Mississippi beach, Ellen DeGeneres spoke those simple, powerful words to her mother. That emotional moment eventually brought mother and daughter closer than ever, but not without a struggle. Coming from a republican family with conservative values, Betty needed time and education to understand her daughter's homosexuality -- but her ultimate acceptance would set the stage for a far more public coming out, one that would change history.

In Love, Ellen, Betty DeGeneres tells her story; the complicated path to acceptance and the deepening of her friendship with her daughter; the media's scrutiny of their family life; the painful and often inspiring stories she's heard on the road as the first non-gay spokesperson for the Human Rights Campaigns National Coming Out Project.

With a mother's love, clear minded common sense, and hard won wisdom, Betty DeGeneres offers up her own very personal memoir to help parents understand their gay children, and to help sons and daughters who have been rejected by their families feel less alone.

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3.3
120 reviews
athena Inamikab
August 5, 2015
I don't know where to write my comments. I just want to express my feelings. I really love Ellen Degeneres, here show, books, and the way she hosting and most of all she is a very kind hearted person.
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Victoria
November 19, 2015
This book inspires and hanges you. I love this book but only one remark i possibly could make is to hear more about Ellens character as a child. In this book were few such descriptions but not so much.
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Cynthia Grear
February 22, 2016
Speaking about her daughter and their relationship and homosexuality in general
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About the author

Betty DeGeneres was a working mom who held a variety of jobs--from employment counselor to speech pathologist--while her children were growing up. In 1997, after her daughter's coming out, Betty was named the national spokesperson for the Human Rights Campaign's National Coming Out Project. Now she travels around the country to promote honesty and openness about being gay, having a gay family member, and supporting equal rights for gay people. She lives in Los Angeles.

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