Adele Starr, The PFLAG President Who Convinced Parents Nobody Is To Blame For Kids Being Gay, Is Dead

Adele Starr (nee Ida Seltzer), who in 1976 started the Los Angeles chapter of what would become PFLAG, after coming to terms with her son Philip Starr’s sexuality, died in her sleep Friday. She was 90. Starr served as PFLAG’s first president beginning in 1981, and delivered the rousing 1979 speech on Capitol Hill demanding equal protections for gays. The mother of five (including four sons)

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By: Max Simon
On: Dec 12, 2010
Tagged: activists, deaths, PFLAG, Philip Starr, the awesome

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No. 1 · Ronbo
Adele,

We are better, much better, for having you.

Ron

Dec 12, 2010 at 1:14 pm · @Reply · Flag
No. 2 · Adam
I’m so thankful people like her exist in the world.

Dec 12, 2010 at 10:44 pm · @Reply · Flag
No. 3 · divkid
ma’am, thank you. i would wish you to know that history will vindicate your brave pioneering efforts for a kinder more tolerant world; and history will adjudge your kind as the true inheritors and propagators of the christian message of love. you left the world a better place because you opened your heart.

Dec 13, 2010 at 8:20 am · @Reply · Flag
No. 4 · Sug Night
Thank you, Adele Starr.

Dec 13, 2010 at 9:03 am · @Reply · Flag
No. 5 · samthor
wow. sad. she was a great woman.

Dec 13, 2010 at 1:03 pm · @Reply · Flag