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Emmy-Winning Actress Camryn Manheim Laments Not Being Able to Turn Son Gay After Dressing Him in Drag And Taking Him to Musicals

Camryn Manheim stood at the podium of the 2026 Human Rights Campaign National Dinner on Sunday night and told a room full of adults that she was disappointed her 25-year-old son turned out heterosexual. Not joking. Not riffing. Genuinely upset that the boy she'd put in high heels and full drag as a child grew up to like women.

"I always wanted a gay son," the Emmy Award-winning actress said. "I did."

Manheim — best known for her role on "Law & Order" — was presenting the Ally for Equality award to actress Marcia Gay Harden when she decided to share her parenting philosophy with the audience. Her son, Milo Manheim, now 25, was conceived with Jeffrey Brezovar, an actor and model who is Manheim's gay friend. She raised Milo as a single mother.

And she had a plan for him.

"I love that relationship between gay sons and their mothers," she explained. "I want to be the picket sign holding mom who would beat the sh*t out of somebody for her kid."

So she did what any reasonable parent would do: she dressed the boy in drag. Put him in high heels. Raised him on musicals until, by her own account, "he knows every word to every musical ever written." She fed every signal she could think of into this kid, and then waited for the result she wanted.

"I thought I had this f*cking thing locked up!" Manheim told the crowd. "But no, he's the only straight guy" — referring to the fact that Milo is apparently the sole heterosexual in his musical theater company.

The audience laughed. Manheim was not entirely laughing.

When she learned that Marcia Gay Harden's son is gay, Manheim's reaction was immediate: "Oh my God, you are so f*cking lucky."

Now pause on that for a second. We've spent the better part of a decade being told that sexual orientation is innate, immutable, not a choice, not influenced by environment or parenting. We were told that anyone who suggested otherwise was a bigot peddling conversion therapy. The science is settled. Born this way.

Camryn Manheim apparently didn't get the memo. Or she got it and figured it only runs one direction. Because what she described from that podium — deliberately engineering a child's environment to produce a desired sexual orientation — is, by any honest definition, exactly the thing we were told no one should ever attempt.

The HRC crowd didn't flinch because, in their framework, the rules aren't symmetrical. Hoping your child is gay is celebration. Hoping your child is straight is hatred. Dressing your son in drag to nudge him toward an outcome is "allyship." Any comparable effort in the other direction is criminal.

Milo Manheim is 25 years old. He's straight. He didn't ask to be anybody's social experiment, and he certainly didn't ask his mother to announce her disappointment about his sexual orientation at a black-tie dinner. The kid turned out how he turned out, which is supposedly the whole point of the movement his mother was there to champion.

"Gay sons are the best, right?" Manheim asked the crowd. "I have photographs of my son in high heels, in full drag."

He was a child in those photographs.

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