An upcoming movie, “Death at a Funeral” offers this one-sentence plot description at IMDB:
Chaos ensues when a man tries to expose a dark secret regarding a recently deceased patriarch of a dysfunctional British family.
The June 2007 issue of OUT Magazine (p.90) provides more information to reveal a queerspawn angle:
It’s never easy to lose your [...]
Five-year-old Miguel wrote a song for school about his family, and then sang it again to post on YouTube.
See his mom’s post about it and watch the video.
I dare you to not sing along.
He likes his moms because “they are cool.” He says it twice. I hope his moms carefully guard a copy [...]
This request is sent by producer Glenn Meehan:
Is Your Family a Reality Show?
The co-creator of BIG WORLD, LITTLE PEOPLE is looking for GLBT families for a reality series based on their life. We’re looking for the following combinations; two dads, two moms (with kids 8 - 22 years old), a transgender person with a [...]
Catching up on Helen Boyd’s blog, I was reminded that her husband Betty participated in an episode of All My Children in which the transitioning character Zarf/Zoe attends a trans support group. Everyone but Zoe in that support group identifies as trans in real life, and Helen reports that they were not on script [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
With the careless choice of a single word — “positive” — Family Pride is dismissing all other LGBT-parented families seen on “Oprah” as “negative” portrayals. I wonder what the actual families would have to say about that?
The latest cover of Advocate Magazine is stunning. But not in a good way.
This is Kristanna Loken, now on The L-Word holding a lit cigarette and smoke coming out of her mouth.
“Smokin’”??
Y’know: cuz smoking makes anybody kewl!
And for an added touch of irony, the top text on the cover (for a [...]
Dan Cherubin sent me a link to this AIDS prevention video, “Sugar Baby Love” quite a while back, but it was one of those things…I didn’t have time to watch it right away and it languished in my in-box.
When you have a few minutes (preferably on a computer where you can have the [...]
A big congratulations to Alison Bechdel who found out today that among the numerous accolades Fun Home has received, it was named the #1 Book of 2006 by Time Magazine.
ALISON BECHDEL, FUN HOME
The unlikeliest literary success of 2006 is a stunning memoir about a girl growing up in a small town with her cryptic, [...]