Since writing Families Like Mine, I have been occasionally schooled by individuals who point out that I did not coin the phrase “queerspawn.” I can’t argue with them: I did not, nor have I ever claimed that I did.
The person who did come up with it is Stefan Lynch. I say so in Families […]

In April I delivered the keynote address at the Rainbow Families conference. It was a fitting coda to the end of my spokesperson tenure, since my journey basically began at the first Rainbow Families Conference in 1995. (Unfortunately, I have yet to secure new employment — job leads and professional contacts always welcomed!)
For […]

Last week, my friend Nicole was recognized by her company as a “top performer.” This is a semi-annual dinner and award ceremony hosted by this major corporation that does business world wide.
Nicole invited me to be her guest to the event. Being the very considerate person that she is, she knows […]

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?

One of my favorite tubs to thump* has to do with making sure adult children are visible in LGBT family space. Months before the LGBT Parenting Family Conference in Dallas, I took part in a conference call which was basically a brainstorm of ideas for what would make our gathering a success. I […]

Highlighting additional products to online customers is effective when the match is appropriate. But when it’s wrong, it can be cringeworthy.
My publisher, HarperCollins suggests other titles on the page that features my book, Families Like Mine. I presume the suggestions are based on frequently used words: family, marriage, family values, children, parenting. […]

Bay Windows reports on the Wiki removal in today’s article:
Wikipedia nixes ‘queerspawn’
by Ethan Jacobs
The article quotes Tobi Hill-Meyer who helps keep it in all in perspective, defusing any assumption that this deletion was done out of homophobia and/or queer sheer cluelessness. A technically accurate entry formated for an encyclopedia would have had a fighting […]

Now the link for “queerspawn” at Wikipedia does not exist.
For queerspawn who are well versed in Wiki-speak and and wiki-process, maybe you’ll find the time and energy to give it another go in the future. Just so you don’t have to start from scratch, (unless you want to) I am posting what […]

The entry for “queerspawn,” in Wikipedia is on the chopping block. The entry must be improved to meet Wikipedia’s quality standards and/or contributors/users must refute the reasons it has been nominated for deletion.
I am not savvy enough about the Wiki-universe to comment on the critiques that are based on technicalities and guidelines.
But what […]

From San Francisco Pride, taken by Kate Ranson-Walsh (via her Flickr account.)

Queerspawn? Isn’t that term offensive? you might ask. (And you did ask, several times, at Pride this weekend as I walked around wearing a queerspawn t-shirt.)
It’s not offensive to me. It’s a quick way to identify ourselves and find each other, especially at community […]