#97: Meet the amazing Miss Candy Marcum – a licensed professional leader in family therapy, chemical dependency and the LGBTQ Community - a podcast by Too Posh

We start the show with Miss Candy explaining how she counsels couples, families and chemical dependent people that come to her private practice called “Stonewall Behavioral Health”.
She says that there is nothing more rewarding than touching someone’s life and making a difference.
We then learn about Candy’s upbringing in Springfield, Texas.
She tells us that she is a Lesbian and dealing with that issue has formed who she is. She believes that people should be who they are, as long as they don’t hurt other people.
We find out how her family reacted when she came out at age 17 in 1967 when it was not accepted and there was no word for it.
We learn that she has been with the same woman for the last 32 years and they got married on their 30th anniversary, and it still made Candy nervous.
Candy explains that the point of view of being a gay or lesbian used to be that it was a mental illness. Because of that Candy was inspired to become a professional therapist to learn about herself and help others.
Candy tells us about an international organization called www.PFLAG.org, which stands for Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays.
If anyone is dealing with this issue contact them and they are very helpful and you are accepted.
Candy shares the story when she first opened her private practice and at the same time helped a friend Howie Dare with his gay counseling center that was called Oak Lawn Counseling Center.
She shares the heartbreaking stories of young men in their late 20’s coming to see her and inviting the parents only for the men having to tell them that they are gay and dying of AIDS.
She says it was such a difficult time to counsel those young men who were dying, at the same time the people she officed with were dying, her friends were dying. Everyone was dying and she said it
felt like being in a war.
In 1996 the AIDS cocktail came out and saved a lot of lives. She tells us that there is something called PREP now that protects you before you have sex and you will not get the disease.
We discuss how even today the community of Homeless in the LGBTQ community is huge in 2019.
3 out of 10 teen suicides are because of LGBTQ issues. Candy says that things definitely have changed, but not enough where all are safe.
She thinks sometimes you have to go back to go forward.
We find out that Candy’s sisters always accepted her except one of the husbands, who had an issue, but nobody liked him anyway.
Everyone loves her wife Carol.
This concludes the first episode. Stay tuned for more with the amazing Candy Marcum.

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