Here’s a roundup of general LGBT news. I’ll do another parenting-specific roundup early next week. Happy weekend, all! LGBT-rights leaders gathered in Denver this week for the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force’s Creating Change conference. Bil and others at Bilerico have a bunch of posts up about it, including an interview with the Director […]
This week, Helen and I look at Season Six of The L Word with a parent’s eye. What do we think about Bette’s ineptness with a thermometer? Her plans to adopt another child with Tina? What about Helena, Max, and even Shane when it comes to kiddies? Is there any reality in their portrayals? And
At the end of last year, I mentioned a pair of male penguins at a zoo in China who had been stealing other couples’ eggs until zookeepers gave them their own. They have become known as the zoo’s best penguin parents. Now, the helpful zookeepers have decided the two birds should formalize their union. They
Many of you may have heard that openly lesbian Johanna Sigurdardottir was picked by Iceland’s Social Democratic Alliance Party to be the country’s next prime minister. The news gets even better, though: Johanna Sigurdardottir and her spouse Jonina Leosdottir, an author and playwright, have two adult sons (via Sigurdardottir’s previous marriage), making Sigurdardottir not only the
Today marks the start of No Name-Calling Week, “an annual week of educational activities aimed at ending name-calling of all kinds and providing schools with the tools and inspiration to launch an on-going dialogue about ways to eliminate bullying in their communities.” The event was created five years ago by GLSEN (Gay, Lesbian, and Straight
It’s time for another poll: {democracy:16} Feel free to leave comments about what you liked/didn’t like about any of these books or others. More books for and about lesbian families, as always, in the Mombian Shop.
LGBT parenting news from here and there: The Ohio Supreme Court declined to hear the appeal of a lower court ruling that upheld the joint parenting agreement between two former partners. One partner has tried to use the state ban on same-sex marriage and “marriage substitutes” to void the agreement and deny the other woman
Are you an LGBT parent living somewhere other than the U.S.? Julieta of Ju, An y el Perro Activista and I are teaming up to extend my Family Voices interviews to include a series with non-U.S. LGBT families. (Julieta and several others were kind enough to write a guest post last year about lesbian parenting
Carol Adair, the spouse of U.S. Poet Laureate Kay Ryan and a venerated teacher at the College of Marin, died of cancer on January 3rd, 2009, at the age of 66. She is survived by Ryan, two daughters, four grandchildren, her mother, and four siblings. Her death was first announced in the Marin Independent Journal
A few weeks ago, I wrote a piece about new research showing the devastating impact of family rejection on lesbian and gay youth. Tonight, Lifetime television will air “Prayers for Bobby,” the true story of a religious suburban mother in the 1970’s who struggled to accept that her son Bobby was gay. It airs Saturday,
