Coming Out to Parents by Mary Borhek
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About the Author: Mary Borhek has been involved with words and writing all her life. When she was 12 she saw her sister reading a teen magazine and decided to submit a story to the magazine. (It wasn't published.) In high school she wrote for and co-edited the school's literary magazine. In college she edited a yearbook and won first prize in a poetry contest. After college and a short stint at the physical testing laboratory at the Bethlehem Steel company she became office manager and assistant editor of two publications of The Moravian Church in America: The Moravian and The Moravian Missionary (the latter no longer published). At the request of the Mission Board, she researched and wrote a popular history of the second fifty years of the Moravian mission in Nicaragua entitled Watchmen on the Walls. During this time she also freelanced articles for other religious publications. Then came marriage and three children, and after twenty years a shattering divorce. During these years she did very little writing, keeping a journal only sporadically. Then, in 1975, she discovered her son was gay. To help herself cope with this new reality, she began writing a book that she at first thought would be a record of how she was able to pray her son straight. Instead, the book, My Son Eric, became a record of how she changed 180 degrees and came to accept her son as he is. A second book, Coming Out to Parents, followed in 1983. Since their publication, the two books have become classics in their genre. In conjunction with authoring the two books, from 1980 to 1990 Borhek traveled to various parts of the country speaking to groups of gay and lesbian people, parents' groups and religious gatherings, as well as appearing on TV and radio programs. In 1992 she relocated from Minnesota to Pennsylvania-first returning to the Lehigh Valley and then moving to Bucks County. In addition to writing her books, beginning in 1975 and continuing through 1990, Borhek would write a poem now and then. She kept them in a file folder and eventually forgot about them. The discovery of the file folder containing the poems inspired her to write a few more. Now all of these poems have been collected into I Must Go to the Well: Word Pictures from a Woman's Soul.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780829809572 |
| ISBN 10 | 0829809570 |
| Title | Coming Out to Parents |
| Author | Mary Borhek |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Pilgrim Press |
| Year published | 1993-10-01 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
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