Blogging for LGBT Families Day 2009: Contributed Posts

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Blogging for LGBT Families DayWelcome to Blogging for LGBT Families Day! Below is the master list of contributed posts. Please enjoy!

To submit a post, complete the form at the end of this post, after the jump. If you don’t have a blog of your own (but only then), please leave your contribution in a comment.

[It’s not too late: I’m lax about the end time, anyway—I’m a parent and know what it means to be running late. Thanks to all who have already submitted posts!]

A special thanks to the Family Equality Council for sponsoring the event and donating a free registration to Family Week in Provincetown for the drawing. Thanks also to author Sarah Brannen, who contributed a signed copy of her book, Uncle Bobby’s Wedding. (See end of post for details of drawing.)

Thanks as well to The Bilerico Project, COLAGE, HRC, PageOneQ, and the many others who went the extra mile in encouraging participation.

I hope you take the time to read other people’s posts and enjoy the diversity of the LGBT community and our allies. Over the next few weeks, I’ll be writing up some posts that pull together various themes that emerge.

Posts are included in submission order.

  1. Lavendertales.com I Want A Daddy
  2. EveryFamily (celebrating all kinds) A Boy I Loved in Red High Heels
  3. 10-Foot Poet Blogging for LGBT Families
  4. LegalOut Blog The Importance of Legal Planning for LGBT Individuals and Couples
  5. En Busca de lo Naranja y Verde Un día todos los días
  6. How to Bring Your Kids Up Queer Genderqueer Mommy
  7. HRC Back Story MN Gov Fails Kids, But We Won’t Stop Fighting For Them
  8. JosieHenley’s Weblog Busy Half Term With The Boy (blogging for LGBT families)
  9. Burning or Building Bridges in the Community Who’s Got Your Back?
  10. Fly My Pretty Crossdressing toddlers
  11. 8thdayplanner Raising Kids in Love
  12. We Love Children’s Books Blogging for LGBT Families
  13. May the Beauty Blogging for GLBT families
  14. Mamis por dos. Madres lesbianas. 1º de junio: Día anual de bloquear por las familias LGBT. Nosotros.
  15. Familias Homoparentales Integradas Argentinas Día de los blogs de Familias LGBT
  16. Doorknobs That Lock Things our son has learned over the past year
  17. Bitacora (Chile) Estudio Familias Lesbicas Chile
  18. The Bilerico Project (Jillian Weiss) My Impossible Father
  19. tin, steel and rust Sunday mornings at Church
  20. El Blog de Luli Bloggeando por familias LGTB!!
  21. We Love Children’s Books Blogging for LGBT Families Day
  22. Related Topics Lesbian and Gay Families: Living on a Patchwork Quilt
  23. The Other Mother Blogging for LGBT Families on our 12th Anniversary
  24. Up Popped A Fox Of Produce and Lesbians
  25. Artificially Sweetened Proud to be a family
  26. Moms and Bombs I love my lesbian moms
  27. Damn Straight Standing Up as the Baby
  28. Truth and Love After 40 Meet The Boys: From a late in life family
  29. Adamant Sun How Prop 8 Changed Our Little Gay Family
  30. Notebooks of Daily Life Straight Guys for Equality
  31. LasDosMamis Mi familia LGBT
  32. LasDosMamis Blogueando por las familias LGBT
  33. COMALES Blogueando sobre las familias LGBT
  34. LOweetzieLIbatTA’s Deviant Art Gratitude and Optimism
  35. Green Dads A Place For Different Beliefs, A Place For Our Family
  36. One Lazy Liberal Blogging for LGBT Families
  37. The Mama Too Blog for LGBT Families Day
  38. enough grows changing tides
  39. Jesus has Two Daddies Blogging for LGBT Families Day
  40. Vince’s View Still, Too Many Ophelias
  41. Aberration Nation Two Dad Deal: An Aberration Story
  42. Pittsburgh Lesbian Correspondents Blogging for LGBT Families
  43. Strollerderby Not Every Kid with a Mother has a Mommy
  44. DC PoppyCock Flying the Flag
  45. 2 mommies and a shmoo Finding our Peace
  46. Random Musings Blogging for LGBT Families Day
  47. Queercents Blogging for LGBT Families Day: Working Mommies
  48. Lotus Opening An Open Letter to Senator Dianne Feinstein from a Homo West Virginian
  49. jaysays.com LGBT Lessons for Straight People: So Simple a Child “Gets” It
  50. Sarah Brannen LGBT Families
  51. Thoughts From A Lezzymom Blogging for LGBT Families – Typical Family
  52. Dancing on the Edge Happy Blogging Day!
  53. Books, Yarn, Ink and Other Pursuits What Makes a Family?
  54. Diana’s Little Corner in the Nutmeg State Blogging for LGBT Families Day 2009
  55. Own It. Love It. Live It. If You Fight, I’ll Fight
  56. Not the Mama Take Me Out to the Ball Game
  57. ENC blog Happy 4th Annual Blogging for LGBT Families!
  58. Crossroads and Beyond Blogging for GBLT Families 2009
  59. Snailbird Blogging for LGBT Families Day!
  60. EyeJunkie The One Where I Come Out… And Say It
  61. figboiler community from family.
  62. related topics Lesbian and Gay Families: Another Part of the Patchwork–ART Rules
  63. Susanica Truth and Reality
  64. Humpty Dumpty House Coming Out to the Birth Family
  65. No Designation My Two Moms <3 Their Trans Daughter
  66. KJ and the Kids It’s personal to me
  67. Maternidades L Familia somos: Blogging for LGBT Families Day 2009
  68. Queercents (Serena Freewomyn) Love and Money: Lessons Learned From My Queer Wedding
  69. Tenorissimo What is family?
  70. Calliopes_Muse Why I Fight On
  71. Brenda’s Banter LGBT Family
  72. Center Blog (Terry Boggis) Blogging for LGBT Families: In gratitude and grief: thoughts on the death of Dr. Tiller and what it means for LGBT families
  73. T-Equality Blog Working Together for Transgender Children
  74. Operación Botones Blogging for LGBT Families 2009: a rant
  75. Lezziemama Blogging for LGBT Families
  76. Traipsing about Granby Blogging for GLBT Families Day 2009
  77. Encantada Blog ¡Blogueando por nuestras familias!
  78. Notebooks of Daily Life The Ballad of John and Marco
  79. 4/5/2008 Blogging for GLBT Families, Weddings and….
  80. Labels are for Jars Blogging for LBGT Families Day: Elbowing at the Boundaries
  81. (Comment at Mombian) (Blogging without a Blog for LGBT Families Day
  82. Miss Rants Ad familiares
  83. Butt to Chair: Thoughts on the Writing Life Writing About LGBT Issues
  84. Fairymere Queerspawn Toast
  85. Retro-Food We are THAT LGBT Family
  86. (en)gender Blogging for LGBT Families Day!
  87. Were Those Wrinkles There Yesterday? Waving My Rainbow Pompoms!
  88. The Bilerico Project (Waymon Hudson) My “Non-Traditional” Family: Blogging for LGBT Families
  89. EveryFamily Lily at Thirteen
  90. Diary of a Modern Matriarch A Future World
  91. Louise’s Snack Bar Blogging For LGBT Families Day 2009
  92. All For the Love of You Unexpected Gifts
  93. Thalamus Center – Early Childhood Psychological Development Growing up Gay “Gay Marriage” – Marriage Equality – Opponents Based on Facts or Personal Fears of Antigay Religious Norms – afraid to love and to be loved?
  94. LizaWasHere 2009: Blogging for LGBT Families Day
  95. Embrace Your Age Cause You Livin’ Blogging for LGBT Families — Filling With Joy
  96. Transsexual Transition In Prog Blogging for LGBT Families Day!
  97. My Field of Paper Flowers Blogging for LGBT Families Day 2009
  98. Life Coaching for Women How Well Do You Handle Difficult Situations?
  99. The Family Ties That Bind Blogging for a Human Rights Cause
  100. Affine Financial Services What can kids learn from their LGBT parents about money?
  101. The Mouse’s Nest The radical act of being ourselves
  102. narrating kayoz Two mums *and* two dads – how cool is that?
  103. The Daddy Diaries Random Thoughts
  104. The Ever-Changing View Blogging for LGBT Families Day 2009
  105. Playa Minded Blogging for Equality
  106. InterstateQ.com Family is really all that counts
  107. Philadelphia Gay Parenting Examiner Summer camp for kids of LGBTQ families
  108. Notebooks of Daily Life I Hate Prop 8 (Guest Post by Jared, Age 7)
  109. Forever Reaching A Dream Still Deferred
  110. Life Is Messy Daily lesson
  111. (Comment at Mombian) Our Non-traditional Traditional Family
  112. A girl walks into a blog…Blogging for LGBT Families Day 2009
  113. Are You Kidding Blogging for LGBT Families Day 2009
  114. Come What May A Lesbian Family Weekend
  115. thetotalfemme Mom’s Base
  116. Abiekt Zapracowany
  117. Lesbian Dad Pas de deux
  118. Bent Alaska Pride Chorus keeps on Singing
  119. Religious Action Center Same-Sex Family Values
  120. Mommy With a Penis Thing-in-Hand

I will do the drawing this Friday, June 5. You must leave a valid e-mail to be eligible. It will not be shared or sold. Family Equality Council employees and paying advertisers on Mombian are not eligible.

25 thoughts on “Blogging for LGBT Families Day 2009: Contributed Posts”

  1. Polly

    Mine’s coming! I swear! I just have to juggle the childcare and other work stuff tomorrow! Hope the floodgates will stay open ’til up to midnight Pacific!

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  6. Dana

    Yes, absolutely! I’m always a little lax about the end time so that we catch folks in every time zone. (And for you, I’d save a spot in any case!)

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  11. Joellen Hiltbrand

    My wife (yes, we are one of the 18,000 in CA who can legally say that — how ridiculous is that?) went to LA this past weekend to play with some friends, leaving me and our 2.5 year old son and our 5.5 year old daughter to play with each other for three days.

    When Kyler was an infant with colic, the thought of being alone with him for two hours terrified me. At almost-3, he is such a curious, funny, loving playful joy that I can hardly remember what that fear felt like. And Teah, our beautiful brilliant 5 year old — being around her is like watching the world being born. Everything is a source of amazement to her. Currently, she is really into telling jokes, and recounting what happened in her new-favorite Scooby Doo movie.

    Over the weekend, we went to Teah’s Girl Scout troop meeting (a mostly LGBT family troop) and made fresh orange juice, visited my sister Lisa’s student art exhibit at the Urban Promise Academy, visited my sister Chris and her teenage sons, and went to a Giants game with our friend Cynthia, during which the kids sat still for approximately 15 minutes before wanting to run around. We quieted down a bit Sunday night by watching a nature show about this amazing place off the coast of South Africa where gannets and dolphins and sharks and whales come together to feast on sardines. In other words, it was a pretty typical weekend — full of family and fun and lots of time for the kids to play together and apart.

    Kyler and I picked up Daph at the Oakland Airport with “That’s What I Like About You” blaring on the car stereo. Three days away and she looked cuter than ever. Ten years in, and I am continually shocked by how lucky I am to have found a love that is so capable and smart and kind and funny AND knock out gorgeous.

    Underneath the details of everyday life in our little family is a new undercurrent of sorrow for me. My parents are in their 80s and are quickly approaching the point where they will no longer be able to live independently as they have for so long. My mother, in particular, is resisting change and offers of help. The push and pull with her — the closeness informed by listening to her in our daily calls, and the distance created by her refusal to accept help and my insistence that she needs some — illuminates The Gap We Do Not Discuss, the decade or so after I came out as a lesbian during which my mother and I barely talked. My mother and I love each other deeply. But with other siblings, she has an ease that is painfully lacking with me. Since Daph and I have had kids, she can find some common ground, and my willingness to come to NY defrosts things a bit. But in listening to her struggle, and in having to witness a huge and unwanted change in her ilfe, I feel a current growing in my heart — that we lost any time at all with each other. that we will never get that back. And that we will probably never totally cross the bridges that divide us again. I feel that loss keenly, as her daughter, and as the mother of children I hope I will be always able to accept unconditionally.

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  13. Susan Austin

    [My blog picked today to crash, so I am posting this here]

    Our Non-traditional Traditional Family

    How ironic it is that my family would be called “non-traditional”, when the truth is that we the embodiment of a typical middle class small-town family; except for the fact that our kids have two moms, we are so traditional that it is almost funny. Granted, we are more politically active than most families, but in my family that is a tradition in itself, handed down for three generations.

    My wife is the most traditional woman I know–a fact that I tease her about endlessly. Like most moms these days, my wife has to work, but somehow she gets up with the kids and sees them off to school; helps with homework, teaches our son to play the guitar and teaches our daughter to sing, bakes cookies and tries in vain to get the kids to keep their rooms clean. (on more occasions than I can count, I have found myself trying desperately to stifle a laugh while she is reprimanding the kids because she has sounded exactly like my mother, right down to the inflection). To me, my wife is my soul mate and the light of my life; I know I am a better person, because of her. To our children, she is simply Mama and to my mother-in-law, she is a loving daughter.

    Our children are wonderful, intelligent human beings; our babies blossoming into teenagers before our eyes, noticeably more mature with every passing day. Old enough now to speak up on social issues and animal welfare, but young enough not to be able to sleep without a good-night hug. Our mischievous son with his goofy sense of humor and our daughter with her acerbic wit and biting commentary, one foot in childhood and one foot in adolescence–one minute giving my mother-in-law great amusement by doing to us exactly what my wife did to her, the next minute giving our elderly neighbor a card for Mother’s Day, because they know her daughter passed away several years ago and they don’t want her to be sad. Wise beyond their years, yet young enough to be totally confident: Our daughter, wise enough to see a reference to “ex-gays” and declare that a person could no more be “ex-gay” than “ex-brown-eyed” because “you can’t change how you are born” and our son, who at the age of seven marched with PFLAG in our LGBT Pride parade, carrying a sign that was taller than he was, because “The sign was too heavy for the for the “grandma ladies to carry”.

    This then is our “non-traditional” family. I would not have us any other way.

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