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, [...]

According to Guardian Unlimited, Scissor Sisters bandmember Ana Lynch (aka Ana Matronic) had a gay dad who died of AIDS.
Her experience of his death, the cover up, and the lack of support is all-too-familiar to people whose parents contracted the disease:
…when she was 15, she learnt that her father had Aids. She and [...]

If you blink, you’ll miss it. I mean that literally.
In this Ikea commercial, sofa covers of various colors splash on the screen. An announcer asks: “Why shouldn’t sofas come in flavors…just like families?”
And at the last split second you see a young teen Asian girl, sitting on the floor in front of a sofa, [...]

If you didn’t see Monday night’s Daily Show, Box Turtle Bulletin has posted a hilarious clip. The segment features homo-hostile faux-researcher Paul Cameron — who always, always goes under the category, of “is he for real??” The “reporter” Jason Jones is an actor, of course, but Cameron was not acting.
Jones feigns homophobic [...]

Imagine: A teen singing about having “two real fathers” who can “both be my mom” and being surrounded by other kids who join in the chorus.

To anyone in the U.S. who thinks our country is the leading country in LGBT acceptance: how soon will we see something like this video in English? Oh, [...]

The Ford Company has a collection of ads running with the tag line “Bold Moves.” Including this one:

Mom, Dad and two kids are in their Ford Vehicle on a road trip. See the happy family, making memories that will last a lifetime. At the end of the trip, the dad steps out with [...]

This just in from queerspawn comedian Kaitlin Colombo:
I know, I know…You’re probably thinking…
There are already 100’s, if not 1000’s of BLONDE, 20 YEAR OLD, FEMALE COMICS wearing CORSETS & MINI-SKIRTS doing POLITICAL AND POP CULTURE COMEDY while lovingly skewering their Big Gay Dads…
…do we really need another one?!
One more, please?
LAST COMIC STANDING
FINAL ONLINE VOTE STARTED [...]

Passions is a daytime drama known for its supernatural plot lines. Yesterday there was this matter-of-fact dialogue between the wealthy heir Fox Crane and the naive, new-to-humanity Siren, who keeps forgetting she can’t let anyone find out she’s actually a mermaid:
Fox: Are your parents hippies?
Siren: No. Guppies.
Oh, no! She slipped! Fox is about to [...]

Tonight’s auditions/showcase in L.A. for Last Comic Standing featured 20-year-old Kaitlin Colombo. She included material about having a gay dad and how people assume she’s a lesbian.
Kaitlin’s personal website confirms that she really does have a gay dad who raised her as a single parent. “He is a non-practicing Gay,” she writes on [...]

An Onion article about an out gay man and his closeted gay dad.