Cienna Madrid demands a better title in “The Fag-Hag Emancipation Act of 2006,” published in this year’s Queer Issue of the Stranger.

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 [...]

Harlyn Aizley’s anthology (for which she was seeking submissions last year) is due for release this Mother’s Day.
A review from The Washington Post:
Parenting Lit
By Susan Adams
Sunday, May 7, 2006; Page M03
When it comes to uncharted territory, CONFESSIONS OF THE OTHER MOTHER: Nonbiological Lesbian Moms Tell All! (Beacon; paperback, $16) must be a first.
A [...]

My post in honor of Blog Against Heteronormativity Day, hosted by blac(k)ademic.

I was recently asked to speak on a panel of “allies” to the LGBT community. The panel’s focus was about how straight people could support LGBT families, by hearing first-hand from heterosexual allies. I declined.

Nilo Cruz’s play “Beauty of the Father” is about to wrap up its New York premiere. The plot revolves around a gay man whose estranged 25-year-old daughter visits him in Granada, only to fall in love with her father’s 20-year-old houseboy and sometimes-lover.

At a GLBT-related event on Saturday, I said hello to a group of lesbians who introduced me to their gay male coworker they had invited along.
Lesbian 1: We met Abigail when she did her book signing at Amazon.
Gay Male Coworker: You’re an author? What do you write about?
Me: I write about the culture of having [...]

Chelsia, whose blog Wobbly Little Legs is on the blogroll at Oversampled writes about how at 28 she is pondering the possibility of coming out about her family in her ASL (American Sign Language) class.

More on the White House Egg Roll from, well, The White House. Here’s an excerpt from yesterday’s press briefing.
Q [Les Kinsolving]: Scott, a two-part. There’s been extensive reporting of a homosexual group, Soulforce, calling on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual and trans-gender Americans to be the first in line at this year’s White House [...]

Wikipedia has become the online validator of culture. I tried putting in “queerspawn” but nothing showed up. Then I tried adding a space (”queer spawn”) and it was in a section called “Gay Slang” under “Q.”