Is your daughter or son homosexual? It's no one's fault!
Faced with your child's homosexuality, you feel the need to understand and know why your child is not heterosexual. You try to find an explanation, what is natural, or a culprit.
We would like to dedicate these testimonies to all those parents, Christian or otherwise, who, faced with the discovery of their son or daughter's homosexuality, have tried to "understand, discuss and understand". So that their testimonies can help those who are still on the journey. If you want, send us your story.
Faced with your child's homosexuality, you feel the need to understand and know why your child is not heterosexual. You try to find an explanation, what is natural, or a culprit.
Among the many differences of our five children, our eldest daughter Chiara, thirteen years ago, found the courage to tell us that she was homosexual. Giuseppe did the same seven years later. Both were teenagers and, at the moment of falling in love, they understood their orientation, without having chosen it.
Testimony of the parental couple Serena and Massimo at the prayer vigil for overcoming homotransbiphobia held in the Parish of Gesù Redentore in Modena, presided over by bishop Erio Castellucci and pastor Daniele Bouchard on 21 May 2026. We are Serena and Massimo and we come from Bologna. We have been married for 32 years and have two children in college. We have been part of almost...
Testimonianza di Francesca e Paolo, una coppia di genitori cattolici con due figli LGBT+, tenuta sabato 16 maggio 2026 nella parrocchia Santa Maria della Stella di Albano Laziale (Roma), durante la Veglia di preghiera per il superamento dell’omotransbifobia organizzata dalla Diocesi suburbicaria di Albano in collaborazione con La Tenda di Gionata ed il supporto del Festival della Comunicazione “Custodire voci e volti umani” (11–24 maggio 2026)....
Riflessioni di Candice Czubernat* pubblicate su The Christian Closet (Stati Uniti) il 24 agosto 2016Liberamente tradotto e adattato per la pubblicazione su Gionata Il tuo peggior incubo si è avverato. Tuo figlio, tua figlia, si è dichiarato/a. Che sia successo quarantotto ore fa o quattro anni fa, il dolore nel tuo cuore ha probabilmente la stessa intensità di quel primo...
Presentation by Anna Battaglia of "On the road to Emmaus", a group of Christian parents with Sicilian LGBT+ children, given to the bishops in the winter session of the Sicilian Episcopal Conference on 13 January 2026 in Palermo. It all began on 17 November 2002, with a letter, which my son gave to me by hand, in which he described himself as a person with a different orientation...
Riflessione di una madre cristiana*, pubblicatola sul blog Serendipitydodah (Stati Uniti) il 3 settembre 2019. Liberamente tradotta dai volontari del Progetto Gionata. “La preghiera è un’arte che solo lo Spirito Santo può insegnarci… Prega per imparare a pregare – prega finché riesci a pregare, prega per essere aiutato a pregare e non smettere di pregare solo perché ti sembra di...
Brano tratto dal libro “Our Children A Gift” (Dono del Signore sono i figli) a cura di Drachma Parents*, edito da Midsea Books, Malta, 2023. Traduzione dell’edizione italiana a cura de La tenda di Gionata** Anche se sei il genitore più aperto del mondo, sai che essere lesbiche, gay, bisessuali o transgender può portare ulteriori complicazioni nella vita di tuo figlio o tua...
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