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 [...]

The New York Times reports new restrictions on people interested in adopting from China. Apparently, the Chinese Center for Adoption Affairs can afford to be picky since they are getting more requests than there are babies available.
China Tightens Adoption Rules for Foreigners
By Pam Belluck and Jim Yardley
Published: December 20, 2006
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Which hopeful prospective parents [...]

…you’re missing out.
The La Crosse Tribune reports that fair-minded citizens are taking the “glass half full” approach regarding the constitutional amendment stripping same-sex couples legal recognition. The loss in La Crosse County was by a mere 152 votes, and organizers say that is worth celebrating.
Gay rights groups plan thank-you event for county voters
By Joe [...]

While researching documentaries about queer families I discovered one from 1983 called “If She Grows Up Gay.” Directed by Karen (Sloe) Goodman.
The description:
A blue collar African-American mother, talks about her pregnancy and raising her daughter with her lesbian lover.
Today, that baby is at least 24 years old.
Where are you now? I would love [...]

Is there a correlation between having gay parents and wanting to graduate from high school early?

Rhetoric that attacks gay families refuses to entertain the possibility of competent gay parents, but obsesses over gender instead. “Gay parents deny their children the fundamental necessity to have both a mother and a father.” So goes the Right Wing drum beat.
Okay then, here’s a gay parenting arrangement that offers a mother and a father [...]

Columnist Deb Price wrote a nice piece honoring the legacy of Aleta Fenceroy and her partner, Jean Mayberry.
For their devoted fans, the Fenceberrys became town criers, telling us far more than we could learn from the occasional gay article in our hometown papers. Or, to put it another way, Fenceberry readers — whether a New [...]

McGreevey is on the cover of Advocate Magazine’s “2006 Coming Out Issue,” on newsstands this Tuesday.
C’mon now: McGreevey did not “come out.” He was “outed.”
Advocate’s decision to pander to the McGreevey Damage Control Publicity Machine is an insult to every person who has bravely declared they are “a gay American” without the [...]