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 […]
I met Rebecca Lazarus in Dallas at the LGBT Family Conference last October. Here she is with her dads in their Halloween costumes — that’s a paint brush behind her ear. I had to take this photo because I loved the metaphor: Rebecca as the creative artist, her parents as her willing […]
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?
The latest cover of Advocate Magazine is stunning. But not in a good way.
This is Kristanna Loken, now on The L-Word holding a lit cigarette and smoke coming out of her mouth.
“Smokin’”??
Y’know: cuz smoking makes anybody kewl!
And for an added touch of irony, the top text on the cover (for a […]
Long time artist/activist Patrick Scully donated his many, many boxes of materials to the Tretter Collection in GLBT Studies, declaring, “History is written by those whose stuff is saved!”
As a community organizer on the last leg of my phase-out plan, any documentation of my work is basically worthless if it’s just stashed away in the […]