Blogging for LGBTQ Families Day 2015: Master List of Posts

It’s Blogging for LGBTQ Families Day! Below is the master list of contributed posts, which I will keep updated throughout the day. Please come back to check for new additions you haven’t read! Thanks to all of you for participating! I’m happy to add more posts for the next few days (though you must get them in by 11:59 p.m. ET 6/2/15, to be eligible for a chance at the giveaways).

To submit a post, complete the form at the end of this post. Older posts are welcome, too. If you don’t have a blog of your own, make a public Facebook post, upload to a video- or photo-sharing site and submit the link, or leave your contribution in a comment on this post. You can also tweet in support of LGBTQ families with the hashtag #LGBTQfamilies. I’ll also be posting links over at the Mombian Facebook page all day, so you can follow the fun there if that’s how you roll. Please encourage all your friends, LGBTQ, their families, and allies, to participate!

Leave an e-mail address (not to be shared or sold) or make sure I can contact you through your blog if you want a chance to be selected for one of the goodies I’ll be giving away to random participants in celebration of our 10th year. (Full giveaway rules and details are here.) Giveaway items are:

• A copy of the new, revised, 25th anniversary edition of Heather Has Two Mommies, autographed by author Lesléa Newman;
• A $150 Residence Inn gift card courtesy of Residence Inn by Marriott;
• Five copies (one to each of five participants) of the new children’s CD Dancin’ In The Kitchen: Songs For All Families, by Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer, courtesy of the HRC Foundation’s Children, Youth & Families Program and Welcoming Schools project;
• Another great new kids’ CD, about gender diversity: Rainbow Train, by Chana Rothman, courtesy of the artist and her publicist;
• The new, 2nd edition of The Fenway Guide to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Health, courtesy of Fenway Health;
• Five sticker and magnet sets (one to each of five participants) from GLAAD’s “Got Your Back” campaign, which encourages LGBTQ and non-LGBTQ folks to stand up as allies for those with identities different than their own.

Thanks to all of the above individuals and organizations, and to Family Equality Council and Our Family Coalition for helping to support and promote this event—and thanks to all of you for participating!

Please allow some time between submitting a post and its appearance in the list below. I will be updating the list as fast as possible, but new posts may not appear immediately.

Your contributed posts, in chronological order of submission, are below.

1. MomsRising.org Five Things to Know About Obamacare for LGBTQ Families
2. Do I Look Like A Writer In This? The Village People: How A Group of Lesbian Moms Raised A Bunch of Great Kids
3. Goodnight Already She’s Not my Mother
4. Rainbow Family News Lesbians Raising Daughters
5. Huffington Post (Cathy Fink) It Takes All Kinds
6. Pigeonhole Books LGBTQ Children’s Picture Books And Its Evolution
7. Welcoming Schools Blog Welcoming Schools News: Ideas For Inclusive Mother’s and Father’s Days
8. MomsRising.org How far would you go to protect your family?
9. MomsRising.org ‘Poor Gays’
10. MomsRising.org No Community Is Immune from Bullying
11. MomsRising.org The Pink Peril
12. Two and a Half Women 90’s Moms
13. Doorknobs That Lock Every part of the song
14. The Pride & Joy Project Blog Blogpost #4: The Lesbian Brady Bunch & National Sibling Day
15. 2 Moms Travel We Both Want to be Called Mom!
16. EvoL= A Gay Dad’s Letter to Michelle Duggar
17. The Parents Project Gay Pride Celebrations
18. Labels are for Jars Coming around…blogging for LGBT families day
19. Big Mommy Little Mommy Really, Big Mommy?
20. IfYouCan’tWriteBlog My Vagina is an Open Book
21. MyFamilyBuilders 8 Ways to answer your kids’ questions about LGBT families
22. writeidea8.wordpress.com My Church
23. Keshet My Son, My Hero
24. Keshet An Open Letter to Mom, From Her Gay Son
25. Keshet Lucky to Have Two Mommies
26. Coffee, Clutter and Chaos “My Gay mom is cool!”
27. Uncle Roger’s Notebooks of Daily Life Sick and Tired
28. SafariDad LGBT Families
29. Gays With Kids (Scott Kearnan) Out & About Dad
30. Gays With Kids (Brian Rosenberg) The 6 Things We Talk About on Date Night
31. Gays With Kids (Clay Wirestone) A Family’s Journey From Joy to Loss and Back Again
32. Gays With Kids (Ferd Van Gameren) How This Gay Dad Celebrated Mother’s Day
33. The Handsome Father (Andy Miller) Not Nice Behavior
34. The Handsome Father (Scott Ballum Cohen) 5 Things This New Gay Dad Was Not Prepared For
35. The Handsome Father (John Dulworth) The Unexpected Conditions of Life
36. The Handsome Father (Patrick Roth) On Alan Turing, Me and My Son
37. The Handsome Father (Craig Peterson) Confessions of a Father (But Don’t Tell My Kids)
38. The Handsome Father (Jim Joseph) Paternal Instinct
39. Love Matters A Mother’s Heart
40. Love Matters Perspective…sometimes it knocks you off your feet
41. GLSEN It’s Back to School for LGBT Parents, Too!
42. Pop’n’Olly Pop’n’Olly: What does your family look like?
43. Designer Daddy 9 Netflix Titles for Non-Traditional Families
44. Slate Outward The Straight Parents’ Guide to How Not to Raise a Homophobe–and How to Be a Better Ally
45. Huffington Post (Morgan Meneses-Sheets) The Lucky Ones: Personal Reflections for LGBTQ History Month
46. The Advocate OpEd Page Op-ed: Embracing the Role of Asian Mother to a Trans Son
47. PFLAG National’s A Note To My Kid A Letter to Jacob from his mom, Mimi
48. Adventurous Moms An Open Letter to Medical Professionals from a Lesbian Mom
49. Good Families Do Spoiled
50. GLAAD (Carol R. Hill) "It’s in the Jeans": lessons learned coming of age and coming out in #LGBTQfamilies
51. My Two Mums Finding our calm
52. Transparenthood Can You Hear Me Now?
53. GLAAD (Esther Baruja) Two women, a donor, and a caring community: It takes a village to raise #LGBTQfamilies
54. Shira Glassman, author LGBT family day at the zoo
55. Goblin Child An Open Letter to our Twins’ Sperm Donor
56. Serendipitydodah Moms Of LGBT Kids Who Are Changing The World
57. Clare Says Love is Love
58. Women = Books A Not-So-Slippery Slope
59. GLAAD (Marianne Duddy-Burke) A lesbian foster mother responds to Catholic bishops’ attempt to discriminate against #LGBTQfamilies like hers
60. Becoming LA June is Pride and Love
61. Women’s Work What Does Family Mean
62. LesBeMums A Letter to Sharon and Kate 2 Years Ago
63. GLAAD GLAAD president accelerates acceptance for #LGBTQfamilies around the country
64. When 3 Becomes 4 When 3 Becomes 4
65. Habitot Children’s Museum Totmail Rainbow Pride Arts Week At Habitot
66. GLAAD (Guy Ringler, M.D.) Gay fertility doctor on 20 years of helping to build #LGBTQfamilies
67. GLAAD A toast to my moms and #LGBTQfamilies on their wedding day
68. The Lost Mom On What Collateral Damage Feels Like
69. Fenway Focus Fenway Health Proudly Serves LGBT Families
70. EACH Child is Special: Working Smarter Not Harder to Raise Every ONE Jack of All Trades, Master of None, Father of Six
71. The Handsome Father (Craig Peterson) Religious Freedom in Indiana: A Deeper Look at One of the Key Players
72. Our Family Matters Maps II
73. Attachment and Trauma Network Lessons Learned: Relationships over Things
74. Attachment and Trauma Network The Delayed Effect: When the Fruits of Our Labor Finally Bloom
75. Attachment and Trauma Network The Trauma Van
76. Bread and Roses #queermutiny
77. Moms Rising (Rev. Eliza Buchakjian-Tweedy) The Dangers of Peeing
78. @Vermont Six Years, the Difference
79. Lez B Vegan Moms Pride and Joy
80. Big Dyke Mama Fourth Kid and a Wedding
81. SafariDad An Open Letter to Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar
82. Living Hypothetically All Over The Place