Rainbow Families is organizing a kid-friendly rally on Monday to speak out against the proposed constitutional amendment that would remove all marriage-like rights and responsibilities from same-sex couples.
A gay father and his partner had to sell their home and live apart in order for the biological father to have visitation rights. Here’s the article…
City Pages named Damn Straight “Minnesota Blog of the Day.” Thank you, Corey Anderson. Welcome, new readers.
Dhillon Khosla, author of “Both Sides Now: One Man’s Journey Through Womanhood,” Utah State Senator Scott McCoy, and Laura Smidzik, Executive Director of Rainbow Families.
Two publications on opposite sides of the country highlight the impact of homophobia from the perspective of the children. It’s really important that these views get into mainstream papers to reach citizens who are not personally connected to the issues.
…but just for part of the day, to help me maximize storage space.
This is an email from OutFront Minnesota. And while I’m not one to just cut-and-paste a statement from an organization, this is urgent enough to make an exception.
TODAY: Proponents of “anti-marriage†amendment force TWO Senate votes … take action!
I received this email over the weekend:
Are you married or do you have children? It seems many of the people who present media images of the Queer don’t make clear their own sexuality or political agendas. As a product of the alternative lifestyle, what have you chosen as your sexuality and what impact, if any, [...]
I was recently asked to speak on a panel of “allies†to the LGBT community. The panel’s focus was about how straight people could support LGBT families, by hearing first-hand from heterosexual allies. I declined.
Here’s a compilation of announcements sent to me from various COLAGE chapters.