June 1, 2007 is the second annual Blogging for LGBT Families Day. It’s easy to participate.
Read details about the event at Mombian.com, the host for the day.
Here’s the list of participants’ entries in 2006.
And here’s my post from last year.
All LGBT family members and our allies are encouraged to write a post [...]
I contributed a piece to a just-released anthology, Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys: True tales of love, lust, and friendship between straight women and gay men.
The cover features the names a few contributors, including Andrew Solomon and Cindy Chupack, and then in smaller font, “and others.” I’m “others.”
My piece is called, [...]
Seventeen-year-old Scout Opatut was the first child in New Jersey to legally have two moms. She was recently featured in the “Fearless Voices” section of the Huffington Post:
“What Is So Strange About Having Loving Parents?”
Scout and one of her mothers, Joan Garry (former ED of GLAAD) are co-blogging at Who’s the Grownup?
Hat tip: Mombian.
On a [...]
Here’s happy hour in Washington D.C. following the fabulous Rainbow Families DC conference where I presented the keynote address. Never missing an opportunity to organize, Meredith Fenton of COLAGE brought her clipboard (on table next to glasses) to gather contact information for everyone.
Yes, everyone in this photo has one or more LGBT parent. Yes, [...]
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 [...]
Welcome readers of Mombian, where today’s post is a reprint of an advice column I wrote about a daughter of lesbians wondering about her donor dad.
I wish the now-20-year-old would write back and let me know what has happened since.
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 [...]
Bay Windows reports that second-gen’er Sol Kelley-Jones will speaking at GLSEN Boston’s 17th annual conference on March 31st.
From Bay Windows:
Kelly-Jones [sic], a queer college student and the child of lesbian moms, made her debut as a political activist at just 10 years old, making headlines in her home state by testifying at a hearing [...]
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 [...]