Minnesota rocks when it comes to setting the standard for LGBT organizing across the country.
April 12, 2008
13th Annual Rainbow Families Conference
Urvashi Vaid will be giving the keynote.
Note to adult queerspawn: COLAGE will be providing the programming for the kids and needs more volunteers. How about you? Seriously: there’s nothing like this event anywhere.
April […]

High school senior Jessica Cohn-Kleinberg wrote a column about waiting for the chance to testify in Florida to address the law that bans gay people from adopting.
“My amazing gay moms made me a good person”
By Jessica Cohn-Kleinberg
Thursday, January 17, 2008
Express Gay News (Florida)
Unfortunately, she didn’t have the opportunity to speak:
I had my story all […]

The “Let California Ring” campaign has a very inspiring video online — with an equally inspiring soundtrack — to “start the conversation” among Californians about marriage equality.
Among the many powerful voices is Liam Cooper from the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center, who refers to himself as “a kid of same-sex parents.”

Watch the video here.

One of the many ways people from gay-parented families can make themselves visible is by writing a letter to the editor on an issue that affects them personally.
This letter is from today’s Burlington Free Press:

I am writing in response to the article “Commission members all support same-sex marriage” (Aug.12). House Speaker Gaye Symington and Senate […]

One of the most stressful and expensive inequities for gay-parented families is the lack of health care benefits because same-sex couples cannot marry in the U.S.
But same-sex couples and families are only part of the bigger picture of how healthcare fails America. Millions of Americans are uninsured, and millions more are struggling to pay […]

I am the first to call out hypocrisy when it comes to our families being treated by a double standard. But today I am actually defending the Cheneys.
Dick Cheney’s sixth grandchild was born last week to lesbian mothers, and the White House released a photo of little Samuel David Cheney with his grandmother and […]

From SLDN:
Today, our nation pauses to remember the service and sacrifice of our men and women in uniform. All of us at Servicemembers Legal Defense Network (SLDN) are proud to fight on behalf of America’s military personnel, and to salute their commitment to liberty and justice for all.
Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Americans have fought […]

We couldn’t have asked a more perfect day for a rally at our Capitol.

I’ll be at both.
LGBT Lobby Day / Rally for Fairness

Rainbow Families Conference.
(I’ll be signing books at the Amazon Bookstore table.)

Here’s another great opportunity for my advice column to reach new readers:
Rainbow Rumpus, an online magazine for kids of LGBT parents, has been running reprints of my advice column on their site (with my permission) in a section specifically for parents. This month’s question is about teens adjusting to a newly blended lesbian-parent household.
Minnesota’s new […]