"Two grooms. One mother of a problem. Barnett Durang has a secret. No, not THAT secret. His widowed mother has long known he's gay. The secret is Barnett is getting married. At his mother's farm. In their small Louisiana town. She just doesn't know it yet. It'll be an intimate affair. Just two hundred or so of the most fabulous folks Barnett is shipping in from the "heathen coasts," as Mom likes to call them, turning her quiet rescue farm for misfit...

Presents advice to parents of gay children, covering such topics as telling other family members, religious beliefs and sexuality, gender identity, and the importance of emotional support.

"The memoir of a woman caught between her identity as a gay woman and the love and life debt she owes her mother"--

A Presbyterian wife and mother discovers that her son is gay and seeks to change him through prayer.

With clear-minded common sense, and hard-won wisdom, the mother of Ellen DeGeneres offers up her own personal memoir to help parents understand their gay children.