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In summer 2019, Ashley boarded this rainbow cruise with over 1000 Chinese LGBTQ people and their parents. She filmed 7 stories of moms of LGBT kids.

In order to figure out whether homosexuality is nature or nature, Mama Peng went to kiss her friend and date a butch. After her daughter's coming out, she attempted suicide, and quarreled with strangers in a park. Here is her journey. 为了搞清楚这个答案，彭妈妈自己尝试去和女生亲嘴，甚至还约了一个T出来喝茶。 2年前女儿向她出柜后，她从试图自杀，到在公园里和骂“同性恋变态”的人吵架——这是她转变和探索的故事。

"Homosexuality is an illness. I'm taking you to a doctor." When her son came out, Mama Xiaotao thought there was something wrong with him. She even thought about keeping this secret for the rest of her life. 小涛妈妈努力给儿子相亲，但他一直拒绝。出柜后，她说要带儿子去看心理医生，但被他坚决拒绝。各种科普后，她从「我要把同性恋的秘密带到火葬场」到「现在我没有柜子」。她还会向路人科普「同妻」这样的概念。

Xiaoxin's mom and dad come from Guizhou province. His whole family accepts his sexuality, even his grandma will tell the relatives to not ask him whether he has a girlfriend. And it took his dad 30 minutes to accept him. 小新妈妈和爸爸来自贵州贵阳，他们全家人都知道孩子的性取向。甚至是外婆也会告诉亲戚，别问孩子是不是有女朋友。而爸爸也用了30分钟就接受了儿子，心疼他，也尊重他。

In 2010, Ye Mama found out her daughter was gay. In 2015, her daughter faked a marriage with a gay man, but later on Ye Mama found out the truth and went to see a psychologist because of depression and suffering. But she finally decided to talk to her daughter and accepted her as who she was. 2010年，来自浙江的夜妈妈通过女儿的QQ聊天，发现她是同性恋。后来，她给女儿轰轰烈烈操办了一场婚礼，但在发现她是形婚之后，自己去看心理医生。她一个人跌跌撞撞，这一路走了六年。

Mama Xiaoshen came from Hunan. She raised her daughter all by herself. Xiaoshen insisted on cutting her hair short, and not wearing bras or dresses. Later on, her mom realized she was gay. Then she kicked her out of her place. 小深妈妈是个湖南人，一个人带着女儿长大。因为女儿坚持要剪短发，不穿胸罩，也不穿裙子，她就慢慢确认了她是一个拉拉。一气之下，她把女儿赶出了家门。

Xiaoli Mama was born in Chongqing. She used to be an elementary school teacher. Her life was turned upside down because of her daughter's coming out. But she gradually accepted it after reading some books and watching some films. She said, "It's not our kids' faults that they're gay. If you really need to trace down the cause, it's us parents that brought them to this world as gays." 小莉妈妈来自重庆，退休前是一名小学老师。本来美好的生活因为女儿的出柜被打破，但她通过看书看电影以及认识别的同志家长，慢慢走了出来。她说，“孩子是同性恋不是ta们的错。要说错，追根溯源，那就是我们把ta们生成了同性恋，带到了世界上。”这一次，她还帮助一个同志向他的全家人出柜。

Mama Xiaowei used to work in the military. It took her 2.5 years to finally accept her son's sexuality. She's now leading this art group of PFLAG China, with over 100 moms of LGBTQ kids, some dads, and 3 cis and transgender men, to perform in Qipao. 曾经是一名军人的小炜妈妈，用了两年半才接受儿子，而为了证明同志家长也可以过得很自信很开心，她成立了一个艺术团，有一百多名同志妈妈，几位爸爸，还有3名顺性别和跨性别的男生，一起参与这场演出。