[1] She lived in New York until 1996 when she moved to Minnesota to care for her great-grandchild while her granddaughter attended medical school.
[2] I have a homosexual son and I love him.In April 1972, Manford and her husband Jules were at home in Flushing, Queens, when they learned from a hospital's telephone call that her son Morty, a gay activist, had been beaten while distributing flyers inside the fiftieth annual Inner Circle dinner, a political gathering in New York City.
[6] She gave interviews to radio and television shows in several cities in the weeks that followed, always accompanied by her husband or son.
[7] On June 25, she participated with her son in the New York Pride March, carrying a hand-lettered sign that read "Parents of Gays Unite in Support for Our Children".
[16] In October 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama recounted Manford's founding of PFLAG in a televised speech before the annual Human Rights Campaign dinner.
[21] In February 2013, it was announced that President Barack Obama was to honor Manford posthumously with the 2012 Presidential Citizens Medal,[22] the second highest civilian award given by the United States, for her work in co-founding PFLAG and ongoing years of LGBT advocacy.
He said "that simple act" provided the impetus for a national organization "that has given so much support to parents and families and friends, and helped to change this country".
[25] On April 26, 2014, 171st Street between 33rd and 35th Avenues in the Flushing neighborhood of Queens, New York was named "Jeanne, Jules, Morty Manford PFLAG Way".
[29][30] The SNM is the first U.S. national monument dedicated to LGBTQ rights and history,[31] and the wall's unveiling was timed to take place during the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots.