Blogging for LGBT Families Day - Participating Blogs
It’s here! Today is Blogging for LGBT Families Day, a day to raise awareness about LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) families.
Why June 1st? This date falls exactly between Mother’s Day and Father’s Day. As such, it honors mothers and fathers equally, but also conveys that not all families fit into the traditional structure of one mother and one father. June 1st is also the start of Gay Pride Month.
Thanks to all of you who are taking part. A special thanks to Jennifer Schumaker, who is nearing the end of a 500-mile walk to encourage dialogue among LGBT people and their families, friends and allies. She took time out of her tiring schedule to write a post for our event. Best of luck to Jennifer in the final two days of her journey.
The list is now so long I’m not putting it on the front page. Click to view all participants:
- An Accident of Hope
- Adamant Sun
- Addition Problems
- Adventures in . . .
- The Adventures of Saia and Chago
- All the Little Things
- Artificially Sweetened
- Babycakes
- The Baby Juggler; second entry here
- Backinblakk
- Bean Anderson
- Bigfundrew
- Blogher
- The Boys in Our Life
- Brain Spew
- Busy TarP
- Butch Baby Makin’
- BYO Baby
- Carolina Rainbow News
- Cheaper than Therapy
- Cheese and Whine
- The Corrections
- Cousin Lucy’s Spoon
- Creative Destruction
- Crunchy Granola
- Cyberdope
- Damn Straight
- Diary of a Lesbian Step-Mother
- Dictionopolis in Digitopolis
- Digressions of a Mad Lesbian
- Dizzles Speak On It
- Dreamy Prune Whip
- Eagle Eye View
- An Elephant’s Gestation
- Emily Is Violet
- (en)Gender
- Equality Loudoun
- Faggots on the Third Floor
- La Familia Brophy
- The Family O
- Family of Choice
- The Femiknit Mafia
- Flooded Lizard Kingdom
- Frogblog
- The .:Fyr:. Place
- Gandksmoms
- Gay Dads for Equality
- The Gay Parenting Show
- The Gimp Parade
- Half Changed World
- Heart-to-Heart
- Hope and Megan’s Home Page
- Hydrangeas Are Pretty
- Individual Results May Vary
- Insane Animals
- Irrationalpoint’s Soapbox
- Januari
- Jet’s Place
- Journey of a Co-Mom in the Making
- Katebug31
- KellyVision
- Ker’s Korner
- The Last Debate
- The Lazy Cartoonist
- Lesbian and Gay Family Building Project
- Lesbiandad.net
- The Lesbian Lifestyle
- Life with Jee
- Liza Was Here
- LizSpeaks
- The Lizzardbits Tale
- Lois and Holly’s Baby Story
- The Lost Bostonian
- A Mixed Up Family
- Mombian
- Monkeygirl
- Moxie
- The Muriels
- Mz. Understood
- Name That Mama; second entry here
- Navigating the Maze: Foster Parenting and Life
- Nilotic
- Nothing too serious, yeah right
- Oddmum
- One Odd Goose
- The Other Mother
- Our Own Creation
- Parent Hacks
- Penny Jane’s Story
- Perpetual Unbalance
- Peter’s Cross Station
- Probably Boring Ramblings
- Progressive News and Views
- Proud Prowsers
- The Q-triad Blog
- Queer in the Head
- Queer Parenting
- Queerspawn.community
- Rambling Girl
- Randomness Contained in an Emsy Shape
- RedMolly Picayune Democrat
- The Republic of T
- Riding the Gus Bus
- Seeking the Stork
- She Means the World to Me
- Silicon Valley Moms Blog
- Silver Fox Whispers
- So join the struggle while you may, the revolution is just a t-shirt away
- Somewhere over the Rainbow
- The Space Between
- Stacey and Angele’s Bloggity Blog
- Star Evelina
- Straight Not Narrow
- Tara Dharma
- Tex and Blondie
- A "Textbook-Good" Visit
- Then Again, Maybe Not
- They Will Hang Me from a Golden Rope
- Thinkradical
- Thoughts at Large from a Bishop at Large
- Toxic Jelly Bean
- Transcending Gender
- 2c Sundrie
- Tymothy Kate
- Vamprayne
- A Voyage Through Planned Motherhood
- Walk for Togetherness
- Welcome to My Insanity
- What About My Life Plan?
- What If No One’s Watching?
- What the Hell?
- When Do We Ge the Toaster?
- The Wild Silence
- World of Finches
- Written Rebellion
Listings are alphabetical by name of blog, not URL.
Filed under: Blogging for LGBT Families Day 2006
I blogged too!!
I’m joining you as well (just have to get it finished). A great idea!
I wrote an entry on X-Men 3 from a queerspawn persperctive.
My post is up. Thanks for the inspiration!
Mine is up.
I’m up. Thanks for doing this!
Thank you for including me, and thanks for doing this!
We’re here.
I finally got my post published!
me too.
I blogged, too! Thanks to Jen and Cait at Addition Problems for pointing the way!
I blogged on my site as well.
I posted too! Thank you so much!!
Here’s my post Thanks for doing this. Glad I could be a part of it.
I blogged as well: The Family O
I as well - about how in Israel they changed Mothers Day to a more inclusive “Family Day”. Not sure we will live to see the day that this happens here. But thanks for your initiative!
I’ve finished my post. This is great!
I posted for today. We have 5 terrific kids
I wrote a blog entry yesterday about conversations with my daughter’s and gay cousin. Personally, we found it hilarious!
Great idea…. from Silicon Valley Moms Blog!
Count me in!
[...] I thought the most appropriate post for me to write in honor of Blogging for LGBT Families Day would be about my reasons for organizing this event. In the event announcement, I said I wanted to raise awareness of LGBT families, to show how current prejudices and laws impact us, and to make people more comfortable interacting with and discussing LGBT families. [...]
[...] Mombian listed the participating blogs here. It’s a blessing of a list if you’re in the mood to catch up with some great reading. For those who might have missed the opportunity to blog on this topic, you still have a shot: Please keep your entries rolling in! If you want to know how to participate, you can find the details here. I will be updating this list through Friday, June 2, in deference to bloggers in other time zones and those who were unexpectedly busy Thursday. (It’s all about inclusion, right?) Don’t hesitate to send in your entry. [...]
[...] As of this writing, 113 blogs posted in support of Blogging for LGBT Families Day on June 1. I am honored that so many of you were willing to share your thoughts and stories for the event. [...]
giving a shout out!
i blogged :0)
Count me in, too! Thank you very very much for this great idea, and whatever it spawns in the way of richer community and deeper understanding. And thank you for the June 2 amnesty for late-late night, west coast folks. I started to post before midnight but was delightfully sidetracked by grazing amongst the 113 (and counting) entries. (!)
I’m not on your list, but I posted yesterday as well. :)
count me in, too!
We finally updated our post after the baby went down for the night… squeaked in just before midnight our time!
I posted belatedly.
I’m so glad I was able to be a part of this, WOW so many people participated, so happy to see the level of participation and I have enjoyed reading everyone’s posts.
[...] Yesterday was the official “Blogging for LGBT Families Day.” I actually missed being able to participate in it on Thursday, so I’m offering this somewhat delayed post. For more info on what Blogging for LGBT Families Day is visit: http://mombian.com/2006/06/01/family-day-entries/. [...]
[...] Nearly 130 Blogs took part in Blogging for LGBT Families Day, sharing thoughts and experiences about what it means to be a family. [...]
[...] So the first, I’m sure henceforth annual, Blogging for LGBT Families Day seems to have been a rollicking success. As of Friday morning, June 2, 120 blogs sent a shout out about queer parenthood. Reading the entries (cataloged here by Dana Rudolph of Mombian, our she-ro hostess with the mostess) has been like—hmm—like sinking my chops into a juicy, foil-wrapped, plastic basket-bedded Mission District burrito after a long sojourn away from the California homeland. Would that be it? Or like dropping into a hot tub (or a Hot Tub; whichever) after a 12 hour-long moving day. Or like, well, like reading all about other queer parents’ experiences, here in the rosy dawn of my (de facto queer-o) parenthood, and at a moment of enormous national growing pains over the struggle for lgbt civil and human rights. [...]
[...] (Back to our regularly scheduled program . . . though I will continue to post highlights from Blogging for LGBT Families Day for a while.) [...]
I’m late, but posting! See
Crunchy Granola
I blogged too! http://lizawashere.typepad.com/liza_was_here/2006/05/our_home_study.html
[...] For me, one of the great pleasures from Blogging for LGBT Families Day has been reading posts that make me think. Matt over at The Q-Triad Blog wrote something that seems particularly appropriate today, as all the major (and many minor) American LGBT Web sites are urging us to contact our senators and stop the Federal Marriage Amendment. [...]
DANG..
I missed it :(.
I hadn’t heard about it, i need to get to reading my own bloglist more often… hmm, now that i have an rss reader (yeah, i know, way behind the times) it will make it easier.
I’m starting through the list…. wow, great posts.
[...] One of the contributors to Blogging for LGBT Families Day just wrote a great article for the Syracuse Post-Standard, on finding God’s love and community as a lesbian family. [...]
Sorry I missed the blogday, my family is in the process of moving and things are a bit hectic.
Glad to see all the families participating.
Cheers, Brian
Hi I am a lesbian blogger.
Your blog is very beautiful… regard from Italy… .
[...] participating in Mombian’s Blogging for LGBT Families Day and learning how enlightening and enlivening it would be to jump into this ongoing national conversation with and about parenting and life, queer and otherwise; [...]
[...] UPDATE, June 1, 2006: The list of participating blogs is here. [...]