HBO Cruise Coverage Thank You!!

[Sofee]

I felt I needed to post a thank you to Rosie, her family and her 2000 or so friends who allowed the rest of us to share a week in your lives and a look at so much love and kindness. Seldom do any of us get to see what true love and happiness, family and friends, can produce when they are left to their own devices away from the influences of people who have nothing good to contribute.
I am from Portland Oregon, which seems a bit more "gay friendly" than many cities.
I can not label myself as gay, straight or bi, since I don't believe that love should ever have conditions. If love comes to you, the packaging shouldn't really matter. Your cruise offers proof of that not only in same gender love, but so many adoptions of unwanted children of all creeds into loving gay homes.

I march for the rights of my friends every year here, in both the men's and women's parades. I vote on every gay measure brought up locally, statewide and Nationally. I am but one person, but I truly believe that one person can make a difference and in this case, Rosie has given everyone a venue to see up close and personal how incredible love and families can be, no matter what the sexual preference of the parents happens to be. One person, who gave a way for millions to see good. Simply amazing!

I feel honored to have shared those memories with you all and I hope you will continue to allow us all a peek into something good, so that everyone might share a wholesome, wonderful learning experience.

[DeborahB]

I have seen the HBO special now 3 times and I cry everytime I watch it. Im even choking up now. I am mother of a almost 30 year old daughter that is not straight. I just dont like labeling her as a lesibian. She is my daughter and she is who she is, and always has been. When I watched the special my heart was just so happy for all those families especially the children for having human beings that cared enough to adopt and have children anyway they could to love them like any person would and could.Even the moms and dads that came out of the closet and still have a wonderful relationship with there own children, It just melted my heart I must say .Why anyone would not want good loving people to adopt children that have been casted aside is beyond me. I always knew my daughter was not a girly girl. She didnt want dolls , she dressed in pants, never would wear a dress, no messing with the hair either, no bows, no make up, but she is just a knock out ...lol She is a plumber, a mechanic, she can do it all. I knew who she was before she did and I excepted that with no hesitation what so ever. Can anyone relate to that...lol But Rosie thank you so much for the special and I hope the best for many more. I would if I could afford it, love to take my daughter and her partner along with me of course on your next cruise but like I said I cant afford it but I do support everything you have done and are doing along with your partner as well with all of this.I have my own forum up and I always support the gay and lesbian community to anyone that wants to bash them.I dont support it in a bad way either. I will not lower myself to there hateful ignorant ways as they do. I just see the ignorance in them. I live in Tennessee and its just so hard here with all the religious and redneck ways that if you are not straight and a christian you are nothing. Well I am not a christian, I am agnostic and I am a straight/bi/lesibian, it doesnt matter, it just depends on who I may love, proud mother. I do have a wonderful male partner of 13 yeras but I have been with a women as well in the past. I have 4 children, 3 grown and a 12 year old that we havent just come out and said your sissy is a lesbian becuase its just a normal thing here for her to see her sissy with a female partner. Its just grown on her just as if my big girl was straight. I have something a little funny here to share about when I was picking a name for my oldest daughter. I was thinking of naming her Angel, well.... I then picked Billie Jo. I always loved that name and I just dont see my girl being named Angel now. Not that she couldnt be, but if you met her she is a Bill ( we call her that for short). I do hope your next cruise is a great one. Its to bad I cant make it becaus I see one of the stops is Antigua and I I use to live there. Great little island.

OK Ill step down off my soapbox for now. I am glad I found this forum. .