I am in a small town in southern Italy where they are very Catholic and conservative and this woman came up to me when she found out my name and said she was this guy's mother that I was friends with on FB. I asked what happened to him. He left all social media because of the grief everyone gave him for the nerve of posting pictures with his partner. The mom said I always made nice comments on his posts. She knew I was an ally. They are his parents and love him as they should. 1