A new snappy comeback for young lesbians whose parents don’t take the news very well.
Freaked-Out Parent: You’re a lesbian?!!! You…you can’t be…what about your future…You’ll never amount to anything.
Just-Out-of-Closet Daughter: Tell that to Suze Orman. So far, she has amounted to $25 million and counting.
Coming soon, to an Advocate cover near you.
Families Like Mine is reviewed for “Thinking Souls,” a monthly literary series hosted by mnartists.org.
Reviewer Shannon Gibney writes:
Garner leaves no stone unturned, and the result is a multifaceted and multi-layered meditation on the complicated politics of identity. The beauty of Families Like Mine, however, is that it both describes a nascent cultural phenomenon, and also [...]
Greta is the pseudonym for Anna Carlsson, one of the dozens of sons and daughters I interviewed for Families Like Mine. Last year, when Paul Cameron quoted “Greta” in his published paper that distorted my book and others, Greta decided she could not longer be anonymous. She identified herself to Jim Burroway of Box Turtle [...]
Bay Windows reports that second-gen’er Sol Kelley-Jones will speaking at GLSEN Boston’s 17th annual conference on March 31st.
From Bay Windows:
Kelly-Jones [sic], a queer college student and the child of lesbian moms, made her debut as a political activist at just 10 years old, making headlines in her home state by testifying at a hearing [...]
Today the New York Times profiles “Donor 150″ who was a “highly requested” sperm donor in the late 1980s. He has six offspring — that he knows about so far.
Sperm Donor Father Ends His Anonymity
by Amy Harmon
February 14, 2007
The Times did a story in late 2005 about biological half siblings finding each other which [...]
This week R Family Vacations and Family Pride Coalition announced a new business partnership. (See press release via Yahoo Finance News.)
Note this statement from the release:
In its 12th year, family week 2007 will be held from July 28th - August 4th, 2007, and anticipates over 500 gay and lesbian families in attendance. R Family Vacations [...]
From an SLDN press release:
Congressman Gary Ackerman (D-NY) today [Feb. 7] urged Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to consider hiring military linguists discharged under the federal “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” ban on lesbian, gay and bisexual service members. During hearings on the 2008 State Department budget, Ackerman pressed Secretary Rice to address the government’s foreign [...]
Subscribers to Sirius Satellite radio can hear me tonight on The Derek and Romaine Show, starting at 7:20pm.
On Friday, Romaine Patterson revealed on the show that she is pregnant, due in July. In light of this news, they wanted their show to explore some LGBT family topics this week. That’s where I [...]
I met Rebecca Lazarus in Dallas at the LGBT Family Conference last October. Here she is with her dads in their Halloween costumes — that’s a paint brush behind her ear. I had to take this photo because I loved the metaphor: Rebecca as the creative artist, her parents as her willing [...]
Susan G. Komen for the Cure (the new and somewhat awkward name of the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation) is seeking nominations for its new Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Advisory Council. The council will make recommendations and “assist Komen in reducing disparity, morbidity, and mortality rates” in LGBT populations.
From their press release:
The new [...]