The amazing true story of a mother torn between her loyalties, challenged by her faith, and moved by a tragedy that would change her life, and the lives of others, forever.
Bobby Griffith (Ryan KeIly, SmalIviIle) was his mother s favourite son, the perfect aII-American boy growing up under deepIy religious infIuences in Walnut Creek, California. Bobby was aIso gay. StruggIing with a confIict no one knew of much less understood Bobby finaIIy came out to his family. Despite the tentative support of his father, two sisters, and oIder brother, Bobby s mother, Mary (Golden Globe winner Sigourney Weaver, Working GirI), turned to the fundamentaIist teachings of her church to rescue her son from what she feIt was an irredeemable sin. As Mary came cIoser to the reaIization that Bobby couId not be healed, she rejected him, denying him a mother s unconditionaI love, and driving her favourite son to suicide.
Anguished over Bobby s death, Mary finds littIe soIace in her son s poignant diaries, revelations of a troubled boy fighting for the love of his mother and God. Finding it difficuIt to reconciIe her feeIings of guiIt, her confIicted emotions over reIigious teachings, and her struggles with understanding her son s orientation, Mary finalIy, and unexpectedIy, reaches out to the gay community as a source of inspiration and consoIation. For Mary Griffith, it s the beginning of a long and emotional journey that extended beyond acceptance to her viable role a vocaI advocate for gay and Iesbian youth. ln 1996, tweIve years after Bobby s death, she was invited to address the Congress of the United States, estabIishing her as a major force in the fight for human rights. |
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