Blogging for LGBT Families Day 2010: Contributed Posts

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Blogging for LGBT Families Day 2010Welcome 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. If you don’t have a blog of your own (but only then), please leave your contribution in a comment.

Yes, I am still taking posts; I know many of you are in different time zones, and I’m always a bit flexible about the deadline, in any case.

There are a few posts in the comments from people without blogs—be sure to check those out, too.

Posts after the jump, since the list is getting long.

  1. Preparing for Baby Andaloro-Brooks Beginning the Journey
  2. goodkin Suddenly Sisters
  3. Mothership Dispatch We Are Not Pioneers
  4. rosie’s growing snow peas How I Met Your Father
  5. SarasNavel This year is a little different
  6. The Mama Too Blogging for LGBT Families Day
  7. The Gay Bump The Gay Bump Chooses a Name for Herself: Bear
  8. The Strange Land Blogging for LGBT Families on Trinity Sunday
  9. Operación Botones Third Test
  10. The Boriqua Lens Blogging for LGBT Families
  11. Feminists For Choice Friends By Chance, Family By Choice
  12. Butt to Chair: Thoughts on the Writing Life Writing Contest–“Why I’m Proud of My Gay Parent(s)”
  13. Pineapples & Artichokes Let’s talk about diversity
  14. Mama non Grata Four same-sex, half-Jewish weddings and a funeral
  15. Forever Reaching Witness for the Silent
  16. En Familia Lots of adjectives for different families?
  17. Per entendrens… El dia dels adjectius
  18. Work, Love, Play Where did I really come from?
  19. JosieHenley’s Weblog One of Seven Voices – Blogging for LGBT Families
  20. Safari Dad LGBT Parents Have Slideshows Too
  21. Abiekt Blogging for LGBT Families i inne
  22. Oxala We are family – Blogging for LGBT Families
  23. Mind Body Mama An Open Letter to Rachel Maddow
  24. Doorknobs That Lock Family beyond our four walls
  25. La Letra Escarlata Pensamientos bollomaternales
  26. Familias LGTB Shelter
  27. Gay Rights @ Change.org LGBT Parenting: When Preschool Strikes
  28. Homoparental: La familia que crece Hoy es el día mundial de las familias homoparentales
  29. Trans-Parent Summer Visitation 2010
  30. Deseando y esperando
  31. Our Big Gayborhood My Suzy Left You This Note
  32. www.oursimonfamily.blogspot.com Happy Blogging for LGBT Families day!
  33. Gay Rights @ Change.org All Families Are LGBT Families
  34. National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Blog Envisioning LGBT Families
  35. The Mighty Misses Quinn “As the bombshells of my daily fears explode…”
  36. 2 Mommies and 2 Boys Proud or Normal?
  37. Gay Rights @ Change.org Where’s the Best Places for LGBT Families?
  38. Mother Issues Obvious
  39. Dangling Possibilities Mother May I
  40. Middle Aged Queer Mom Becoming a Mother Lesbian
  41. Life With the Kid Cooties
  42. Crunchy Granola The New Normal
  43. Sayen CroWolf For Mother’s Day, I Became a Father
  44. Gay Rights @ Change.org Starting a Gay Family
  45. Labels are for Jars Blogging for LGBT Families: A long-overdue announcement
  46. Blabbeando On Father’s Day, People in Español magazine honors Ricky Martin
  47. Gay Rights @ Change.org Starting a Gay Family
  48. BlogHer Blogging for LGBT Families 2010
  49. madrenosolohayuna.blogspot.com Celebremos el nacimiento de nuestras familias
  50. DOMA Stories Jumping in the Deep End of the Pool
  51. LizaWasHere Bad News, Good News for LGBT Families in 2010
  52. El deseo de ser madres La historia de miles de familias
  53. trzyczęściowy garnitur Blogujemy dla homorodzin
  54. The Family Equality Council Blog Next Steps in LGBT Parenting
  55. The Bilerico Project (Waymon Hudson) Blogging for LGBT Families 2010: My “Non-Traditional” Family (crossposted at Pam’s and HuffPo)
  56. Mami y mamá…te amamos!!! Día de los blogs de familias LGBT
  57. Elise Dodeles art Blogging for LGBT Families Day
  58. Two Hot Mamas Blogging for LGBT Families Day
  59. Now Entering: Life Bi Me You want to know? The LGBT Community has answers!
  60. Up Popped A Fox Head Lice Don’t Discriminate
  61. The Mouse’s Nest Family Portrait
  62. @ Vermont Blogging for LGBT Families Day 2010: A Baby in the Works
  63. we are fambly fambly. again.
  64. We Love Children’s Books Read LGBT family stories to ALL kids
  65. Two moms and a baby Expecting the Unexpected
  66. Mamalicious It’s a day for GAY
  67. Ovulín en Chinitilandia La ocasión lo merece
  68. perambulate life long weekends
  69. Friend of the Fam A Family Like Mine
  70. Deb on the Rocks Blogging for LGBT Families
  71. othermotherisnotamused.blogspot.com LGBT Families Day – Why Am I a Mother? Because It Is So Glamorous!
  72. Gayby Boom! Opening credits to the organization who spreads the most love
  73. Pittsburgh Lesbian Correspondent Pittsburgh LGBTQ Families
  74. the adventures of kari The Chin family
  75. Science and Money My Pomo Nuclear Family
  76. The Adventures of Teo and Talia Family
  77. LasDosMamis Blogueando por nuestras familias
  78. Word In Edgewise Forms Over Substance
  79. Joe My God OPEN THREAD: Fifth Annual Blogging For LGBT Families Day
  80. Adventures of a Midwestern East Coast Liberal A Wedding Makes a Family
  81. Uncle Roger’s Notebooks of Daily Life What Would You Blog?
  82. Dos lesbianas, 9 meses y una nueva vida Celebremos nuestras familias
  83. 040508.blogspot.com 5th Annual Blogging for LGBT Families Day
  84. FemiKnitMafia’s Just the Two of Us Sharing Mother’s Day
  85. Musings from the inside, outside, and underneath Because of a little piece of paper
  86. One Potato, Two Potato Two Dads Stating a Family through Surrogacy
  87. Two Dads, One Son Exposing The Homosexual Lifestyle
  88. Before I Forget We’re just a couple of soccer moms. . .
  89. Birth and Bloom How to Be a Good Ally to Queer Families
  90. Lesbian Dad Face-making place-holder
  91. Role Playing with Kids Blogging for LGBT Families Day?

25 thoughts on “Blogging for LGBT Families Day 2010: Contributed Posts”

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  2. Josie Henley-Einion

    Very glad to be involved and really enjoying reading these blogs. Can I request you change the links to target=”_blank” so they open in a new window? Otherwise I keep having to find your page again to look at the next one!

  3. Jamie

    After 5 years together, at ages 40 and 45, we started to expand our family of two cats and two dogs. We knew there may be obstacles, but all around us, other lesbians and gay men were having or adopting children. The decision took a long time to make, manyh conversations between ourselves and other gay families – finally, a secret yes or no ballot. So many concerns – mostly about whether we could get the kids through the differences of having a non-traditional family. Such a long list of issues to consider: school, other parents’ attitudes, cultural biases from multiple walks of life, and even our families. Then we just did it and said, “YES” to LIFE. Our hearts full of love, our experiences full of expertise – bits of wisdom from our years on this earth. Our choice to be deliberate about everything we do for them, to help them become the best they can be. Now our first is turning four and her brother is two; best friends forever. Our world is a swirl of what all families share: laughs, snuggles, tears, running, jumping, giggling, learning, tickling, playing hide-and-seek, learning, showing, waiting, watching, worrying, traveling, and holding each other. We hold tight because we don’t want to miss a second, yet they grow fast and slip out of our arms, as wriggly as they can be. And we truly see that nothing we were concerned about to begin with is worth a second thought now. We just ARE a family. We have a right to be here. Happy LGBT Blogging Day!

  5. Moninne

    Hi there
    We’d really appreciate if you’d give this campaign a little mention:
    Thanks
    Moninne

    Lesbian & Gay Families In The Spotlight

    National Campaign Launched to Improve Visibility For Lesbian and Gay Families Living in Ireland

    Tuesday, 1st June, 2010: Today, Marriage Equality is launching We Are Family, a national poster campaign which gives visibility to lesbian and gay families living in Ireland. The groundbreaking campaign shatters the silence and myths surrounding these families and calls on the Government to recognise and protect same-sex couples and their children.

    We Are Family posters depicting real Irish lesbian and gay couples, some with their children, are being carried by Dublin Bus and have been sent to Libraries, Family Resource Centres and Community Information Centres nationally. Further information is available on http://www.marriagequality.ie/wearefamily.

    Moninne Griffith, Director, Marriage Equality said, “We Are Family is a pioneering campaign with simple messages, that lesbian and gay families are like any other, their children are the same as other Irish children, and that these families deserve to be recognised and protected by Irish laws. Until lesbian and gay families are equal in law, they will continue to experience discrimination and stigma.”

    She continued, “Some people in Ireland might not know a lesbian or gay family, and so We Are Family is an introduction of sorts to the wonderful diversity of Irish family life. What is often forgotten too, is that apart from the immediate lesbian or gay family unit, these families are also sons and daughters, brothers and sisters, aunts and uncles, nieces and nephews, even grandmothers and grandfathers. They are already interwoven into Ireland’s family fabric and the Government must move to recognise this fact.”

    Orla Howard, Board Member, Marriage Equality commented, “Equal marriage rights for same-sex couples will lead to the recognition and protection of lesbian and gay families. The Government’s Civil Partnership Bill on the other hand, continues to deny the existence of same-sex families and ignores their children entirely. This leaves these families legally vulnerable in matters such as inheritance, access, maintenance and so on. The simple solution is for the Irish Government to make this issue a priority for their Programme for Government.”

    Ms Howard added, “The Government will be encouraged to make this a matter of priority if members of the public contact their locally elected representative and raise the issue with them. All families deserve equality and We Are Family carries this important message and call to action to the Irish public.”

    Marriage Equality is a campaign working for equal marriage rights for same-sex couples in Ireland. We Are Family is it’s latest campaign and was made possible thanks to the support of The Community Foundation of Ireland and the wonderful families who participated.

    ENDS/

    Campaign posters can be viewed or downloaded from http://www.marriagequality.ie/wearefamily

    Media Contact: Andrew Hyland, Platinum PR, 00 353 87 9088 322 / andrewhyland@platinumpr.ie

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  7. C Roebuck Reed

    How far would you go to change hearts and minds?

    Would you open your home to the eyes of strangers? Give filmmakers carte blanche to intrude for five years, based on their promises to be “truthful” and “fair” in depicting your family life? Would you sign away, in advance, your right to influence how that footage is made public? Would you risk a promising career that rises and falls on peoples’ perceptions of you, all in hopes that this will somehow make unknown children’s lives better? I dare say not many of us are willing to go that far, but that is just what the Rev. Greg Stewart and Stillman Stewart have done as part of their efforts to help children be adopted.

    When my husband and I (no, I’m not one of the lucky few – just straight) approached Greg and Stillman in 2002 about working on a project with them, that was the deal we offered — extensive intrusion into their lives, no payment, and no guarantees that they’d like what we produced. They had already, at that point, been approached by more than one television network and turned those offers down flat. Why, then, agree to our request?

    Stillman and Greg had known us — though not well – for several years, and they knew we were both LGBTQ allies and parents ourselves. And their kids liked us (especially Mark, who could have had a solid career as a children’s magician). They believed that we had good intentions. In other words, they trusted us. Wow — faith AND courage!

    As most of you know better than I do, courage is what is required, in extra-large doses, from each lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgendered/queer person, and from absolutely every ally. Courage to stand up against hate, yes; but also to speak out into the silence — silence that pushes all people who are different into the shadows, where the status quo reigns, where so-called mainstream America doesn’t have to deal with them or even think about them.

    I can only imagine what it’s like having to break that silence and come out to people you know and love. I salute everyone who has braved that gantlet! But (not that I’m whining) it can also be pretty uncomfortable to inform people that you have taken up the rainbow banner as a straight ally.

    For a man, especially, to champion the struggle for full marriage and parenting rights is (still!) to have your own sexual orientation questioned. That discomfort never prevented my husband from working for what he knew was right. But alas, after a valiant – and successful – effort to finish editing our documentary, PREACHER’S SONS, my beloved life and business partner succumbed to a metastasizing cancer in March of 2008.

    So now it’s just you and me and our expanding band of allies. I am not alone. And you are not alone. There are millions of us engaged in this struggle for equal rights. Together we will prevail. And now there’s a new tool for prying open hearts and changing minds. PREACHER’S SONS is a non-confrontational and intimate portrait of one family facing prejudice with love and overcoming obstacles with humor.

    After getting to know the Stewart family, the Aunt Millies and Uncle Ralphs of the world — good people who have been fed an unhealthy diet of ignorant bull — will finally understand that love is love and people are people, regardless of sexual orientation. Thanks to the courage of Greg and Stillman Stewart and their five sons. Please help me honor their courage and vision by visiting the film’s website (www.preacherssons.com) to learn more.

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  10. Lori

    Dana – Once again, you ran a spectacular event! The entries are fabulous. Just goes to show how every family is different and wonderful.

    We had a very lovely contest-winning entry at our place from a young family who recently lost one of its moms. When we heard the impact the recognition of the entry had on the kids it made it all so worthwhile.

    You rock Dana, you just rock!

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  12. Sir Jesse of Decatur

    I love my Queer/Questioning/Exploring nephew… as well as all queerly situated youth!

    I view LGBQQ/E identified persons, and actively aspiring allies, as extended family; and the youth who are situated there, my calling. [I teach public school, by day; and facilitate GLBTQQ/E youth development, on my time].
    In addition, my bio-family currently contains folks who are BQQ/E identified- thus, the importance of acknowledging these identifiers is amplified for my family.
    I will be expanding these ideas on my blog soon, as I was compelled to write a little something when I saw that there was a call for LGBT family posts; mainly because I want to explain the importance of a more inclusive alphabet soup umbrella — I’d have preferred to see “LGBQQ/E…and sometimes — T!”
    ;>)
    SJ

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  19. Safe_Bet's Amy

    I just wanted to express my gratitude for this wonderful event. My wife passed away in January and this event has given me an opportunity to let my wife’s words once again show the love she had for her children and myself. Thank you.

  20. Dana

    Dear Amy,

    Thank you so much for participating. I am honored and humbled that the event has meant so much to you. My best regards to you and your family.

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