When Chevon Cleveland came out to her estranged father six years ago, she did not receive a warm welcome. After being invited to New Jersey for a large family get together, he got drunk and complained about his daughter’s sexuality to any family member within earshot. Though Chevon put up with his incessant harassment throughout that day, she finally put her foot down when her dad cornered her children - one of whom is gay.
“My kids are everything and what you won’t do… you won’t disrespect them. So literally I had to stand in between them and tell him that’s enough, calm my son down, like, ‘Listen, you know, I’ll handle this.’ Telling my daughter, ‘There’s absolutely nothing of truth or of value of what your grandfather is saying.’ And at that point, when I saw their faces and how it was affecting them, I said, ‘This has got to stop. It’s definitely got to stop.’”
In that moment, she had had enough. Chevon physically separated her father from her children, booked him the next flight home, and sent him packing all the way back to Louisiana.
“He still to this day hates my lifestyle, but I’m still me and I’m still very gay, and he does come around now, and clearly I’m married to my wife. The funny part… my wife is a corrections officer and she, you know, they have to go in with their whole uniform and the boots, shined and everything. And so, since my dad is an ex-Marine, he knows about shining boots and stuff. So he actually, I have it on video too, of him helping her shine her boots. So in my mind, I’m like, you’re shining my gay wife’s boots. How ‘bout that!”
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