Comedienne and cleaning spokesperson Diane Amos recently spoke to the San Francisco Bay Times about drawing from her life experience for material for her stand-up.
She says that talking about coming from a gay-parented family in her comedy worked to her advantage because other comedians couldn’t steal her material! Good point.
Excerpt:
Bay Times: How did [...]
“It” being homophobia mixed in with racism.
San Francisco Chronicle has a good article about diversity within LGBT families, as well as a reminder that even in “accepting” cities and states, these families still face discrimination and prejudice. One family profiled in the article clearly illustrates the impact of inequality:
Jadallah, 43, and Karraa, 45, felt those [...]
Kids with LGBT parents have posted their questions for the presidential candidates on YouTube. Some questions are about rights for their families, some questions are about other topics like peace and the environment.
Sadly, the StarTribune’s gossip columnist C.J. is not just passing along a rumor. Her column today includes confirmation from Esera Tuaolo’s partner Mitchell Wherley that they are indeed no longer a couple. “I think we just grew apart,” says Wherley.
The kids are all right in Tuaolo-Wherley breakup
By C.J., Star Tribune
My heart goes out to these [...]
When I first came across Two World Collision 18 months ago, it was a very different blog than it is today. It was about a Christian man trying to reconcile his same-sex attraction — a man, who it turns out, also had a father who was gay (married and closeted). While our life experiences and [...]
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 [...]
Catching up on Helen Boyd’s blog, I was reminded that her husband Betty participated in an episode of All My Children in which the transitioning character Zarf/Zoe attends a trans support group. Everyone but Zoe in that support group identifies as trans in real life, and Helen reports that they were not on script [...]
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 [...]
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 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 [...]