Sharon Underwood
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Sharon Underwood is an American woman from White River Junction, Vermont who became famous in 2000 after a local newspaper published a letter she had written decrying the treatment her son had received from his school peers as a result of him being gay.
Underwood's letter, the result of more than two decades of anger built up by "standard gay bashing", was subsequently reproduced in newspapers, emails and on websites around the world, including that of Democratic National Committee treasurer Andrew Tobias, who posted it under the headline "The best thing I've read all year".[1]
Underwood later also wrote another letter[2] in support of Mark Noel, a gay member of the Boy Scouts of America who was expelled from the organization in 2000 for publicly revealing his sexual orientation, a case that subsequently drew nation-wide attention.
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