Singer-songwriter Mary Lambert
described in an interview how the hit gay marriage anthem Same
Love helped reconnect a mom with her lesbian daughter.
Same Love is the hit single
Lambert collaborated on with Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, who last
week received 7 Grammy nominations, including best song for Same
Love.
In speaking with lesbian website
SheWired.com,
Lambert was asked, “Do you have any particular moving stories of
connecting fans who've been inspired by you?”
“There's this one that really sticks
out in my mind,” Lambert answered. “I met this girl briefly in
Austin. She was 21, she'd been dating her girlfriend for a year, she
was super in love, and she was like, 'My mom doesn't accept me and we
just don't talk about it.' I signed an autograph for her and I went
about my way. She sent me an email about two weeks later, and
basically, her mom was picking her up from Austin to drive home to
Dallas and there was a lot of silence in the car.”
“The girl decided, 'I'm gonna play
Same Love for my mom. I'm gonna do it. I think it's
important.' She explained to her mom that she got my autograph and
she was really inspired by me. And she put the song on, and her mom
was immediately in tears, and the girl started crying too. The mom
said, 'I'm so sorry that I haven't tried to understand and I'm going
to try to understand more, and I would love to meet your
girlfriend…'”
“I always get choked up…,”
Lambert said after a pause.
“They started this dialogue and the
girl told me, 'It's the first time I felt like someone was on my
side, and I just wanted to thank you for making that possible.' It's
just so touching. It's those little conversations. It's that song
that's opened up those little conversations. And we have, we have
fucking changed it.”