Upcoming Event

Mom, Thanks For Helping Me Become Me: A Mother’s Day Panel Discussion

Growing up gay, queer, and marginalized is daunting. Mental health issues, physical wellbeing, and drug or alcohol abuse are challenges prevalent for LGBTQ+ teenagers, especially those who are BIPOC. 

Gay Sons and Mothers founder and executive director Rick Miller, LICSW, is facilitating a panel discussion for SpeakEasy Stage/Front Porch Arts Collective on May 11, 2024 following the matinee show of Michael R. Jackson’s Pulitzer- and Tony-award winning play, A Strange Loop, about a Black queer writer writing a musical about a Black queer writer writing a musical about a Black queer writer., to discuss intersectionality, resiliency, and how a mother’s actions can determine the wellbeing of her LGBTQ+ child, including tips on building a community that accepts and supports LGBTQ+ youth.

Panel members include:

• Rick Miller, LICSW, is a psychotherapist in private practice, an author, a presenter, and the founder and executive director of Gay Sons and Mothers.

• Patricia Arredondo EdD, founding board member of Gay Sons and Mothers, President Arredondo Advisory Group, Latina psychologist, and expert on intersectionality.

• Blanca Leos, Gay Sons and Mothers board member, PFLAG National board member, and a Latina mother of a gay son.

• Maurice Parent, director of Strange Loop Boston and co-founder of The Front Porch Arts Collective

• Jean Dolin, the founder of Boston LGBTQ+ Museum of Art, History and Culture, and recipient of Forbes 30 Under 30. 

Past Events

TEDx Provincetown: Hyperlocal

TEDxTalk: The Mother Factor: Acceptance Works Both Ways

• Mom is the person who potentially has the greatest impact on her son’s life and his psychological well-being- especially in communities where he has been treated unfairly due to being gay.

• Up until well into the 70s, the medical community blamed mothers for making their sons gay. Imagine the impact this had on women, their husbands, and their sons.

• So you’d think that a lot of mothers were rejecting their sons, but historically that isn’t true.

Mothers Who Inspire

• featuring Suzanne Loebl. Building Hope and Resiliency: Lessons Learned – from the Holocaust to Getting Through AIDS.

• featuring Kelly Rippon. Online webinar with Kelly Rippon and Rick Miller, LICSW

• featuring Lori Davis

• featuring Blanca Leos

• featuring Karen Murakami

Pride 365

Increasing LGBTQ+ Awareness, Elkus Manfredi Architects

Pride 365

Increasing LGBTQ+ Awareness, Wray Ward

The Pathway Home

National Association of Social Workers MA Chapter. Symposium 2021: Voices of Empowerment & Social Justice

The Pathway Home

National Association of Social Workers MA Chapter. Symposium 2020: Voices of Empowerment & Social Justice

Online Webinar

Featuring Gerald Garth

Austin ISD Pride Week

Keynote Speaker: Celebrate, Inform and Inspire

Mommas Boys

Club Café, Boston, MA

The Relational Mystique

Brief Therapy Conference, Burlingame, CA

The Path Leading Home

Let’s Talk Series: Yale New Haven Health Services Offices of Diversity and Inclusion, New Haven, CT

The Path Leading Home

Gay Sons and Mothers: Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown

Gay Sons and Mothers

With Rick Miller, LICSW. Mama Dragons at Encircle, Salt Lake City

The Bond Between Gay Sons and their Mothers Seen Through an Ericksonian Lens

Milton Erickson Congress: Approaches to Hypnosis & Psychotherapy, Phoenix, Arizona

Pride TV with Dale LePage

Interview with Rick Miller

Gay Sons and Mothers

A Dialogue. MEISA Psychotherapy Congress, 7th World Congress on Ego State Therapy, South Africa

Gay Boys and Their Moms

Workshop with Rick Miller. Provincetown, MA