Eamon with (from left) Judy Finch, Mary Waterford, Jill Day and Sarah Dillane. (Photo: Ben Rushton)
The Sydney Morning Herald ran a feature story on Eamon Waterford, 21, who was initially raised by two lesbian mothers who broke up and each re-partnered, reforming his family constellation to include “four mums.”
Read the article:
I’m not gay, but my [...]
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 [...]
The head of a group supporting LGBT equality at Middlebury College is queerspawn. In a recent op-ed in the campus newspaper, she writes about the impact of recent anti-gay graffiti at the school, and how harassing hate speech specific to sexual orientation should not be trivialized with the justification that it is simply “free [...]
Poll: People Support Gay Marriage More Than Rodents As Pets
10News, San Diego
March 31, 2007
Um, wow.
This does not warrant an article.
It is not news. It is a thinly veiled attempt for ferret lovers to get some attention by linking their issue to a high profile “current event.” It’s a waste of everybody’s time, not to mention [...]
This request came in from a producer who is looking for T-parented families:
The Discovery Channel is developing a series of documentaries about Families that will challenge the notion of the ‘traditional family’ in order to explore the many different set-ups that family forms can take today. We hope to look at this as widely [...]
An article in The Philadelphia Inquirer last weekend covered the first on-land trip for LGBT families sponsored by R Family Vacations.
Rosie’s group brings vacation to Philadelphia
By Melissa Dribben
Inquirer Staff Writer
March 11, 2007
This part surprised me:
Roberta Segal-Sklar, spokeswoman for the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force in Washington, said this R Family initiative “carves out [...]
The New York Times profiles a Chinese adoptee celebrating her bat mitzvah.
The countdown to the big day was the typical blur of lessons and studying, sit-downs with cantors and tutors, caterers and party planners. There was a thick dossier of Jewish history to master — history that Cece confessed did not feel like [...]
Greta is the pseudonym for Anna Carlsson, one of the dozens of sons and daughters I interviewed for Families Like Mine. Last year, when Paul Cameron quoted “Greta” in his published paper that distorted my book and others, Greta decided she could not longer be anonymous. She identified herself to Jim Burroway of Box Turtle [...]
Today the New York Times profiles “Donor 150″ who was a “highly requested” sperm donor in the late 1980s. He has six offspring — that he knows about so far.
Sperm Donor Father Ends His Anonymity
by Amy Harmon
February 14, 2007
The Times did a story in late 2005 about biological half siblings finding each other which [...]
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 [...]