In 1978, Jeanne Manford, a schoolteacher from Flushing, Queens, her husband, Jules, and their son, Morty were invited on to the Today show with Jane Pauley. They were being interviewed because their son was gay and they loved him and accepted him. That’s it. That was the big story.

(SOURCE) https://www.advocate.com/voices/cringe-inducing-powerful-coming-out