Feb 2nd, 2007
Marriage Equality debated in Connecticut. Again.
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 canvas.
Becca coordinates a COLAGE chapter in Connecticut. On Wednesday, she spoke at a press conference about marriage equality in her home state. Excerpt:
Rebecca Lazarus, 12, a seventh-grader from Windsor, told reporters at a Legislative Office Building news conference that she lives with two fathers in a committed relationship.
“I’m like any other kid,” she said, adding that her parents help her with homework, play sports with her, and support her in every way. “The only difference between my family and yours is my parents can’t get married, … even though they’ve been together for eight years.”
Read the rest here:
Same-sex marriage debate heats up
By Keith M. Phaneuf, Journal Inquirer
02/01/2007
Becca ROCKS!
I hope the best comes to Rebecca really I do. I am thankful that I am old enough that this didn’t happen to me with my mom and her partner. (my father is still a willing participant in my growing up) however I am saddened that she is so young should anything happen to one of her dads she would be sent to a foster home. I hope that our prejudice government can get over their bigotry and see that children should deserve a right to be raised by who ever can take care of them the best and has their best interests not whether they are straight or gay.