Mother Called A Gay Bar After Her Son Came Out, The Conversation Went Viral Shortly After
Kara Coley, a bartender at Sipps in Gulfport, Mississippi, got an unusual phone call on the job last week.
“Good evening,” Coley answered. “Thank you for calling Sipps!”
A woman on the other end of the line asked, “Is this a gay bar?”
Sipps welcomes everyone, Coley explained to her, but indeed attracts a mostly LGBTQ crowd.
“Can I ask you a question?” the caller followed up. “Are you gay?”
“Yes, ma’am,” Coley said.
Then things got interesting.
“What was the one thing you wanted from your parents when you came out?” the woman continued.
Coley, who’s tended bar for about 17 years, was a little caught off guard. In all her years of experience fielding requests and helping others working in the service industry, she’d never received a question like that.
“My son just came out to me,” the woman continued on the other end of the line. “And I don’t want to say anything that may mess him up in the head.”
Coley thought for a moment. Then she asked the woman if she accepted her son for who he is.
The woman answered “yes.”
“You should definitely let him know that you love and accept him!” Coley said. “I think everything will be OK from there!”
The woman thanked Coley for her input and they parted ways.
Later that night, in the early hours of Jan. 19, Coley decided to post the entire interaction to her Facebook page, noting how “random” it all had been.
In the days following, her post went viral, amassing over 1,500 likes and hundreds of shares.
So I got the most random phone call at the bar tonight! 😀Me:Good evening Thankyou for calling Sipps!Lady on phone: Is…
Gepostet von Kara Coley am Freitag, 19. Januar 2018