If you’re looking for some new kids’ music that won’t drive you crazy with squeaky voices or repetitive catch-phrases, try Choo Choo Boogaloo by Buckwheat Zydeco. Best known for his Grammy-nominated zydeco music for adults, Buckwheat and his band have put out an engaging children’s album that manages to be fun without being cutesy. It’s […]
My partner and I applied for a marriage license in Massachusetts Friday, though we weren’t sure we’d be able to do so. We explained to the very nice clerk in the Gloucester City Hall that we did not yet have a home in the state, but my partner will be starting work there on Monday.
It’s always good when someone writes intelligently in a mainstream publication about LGBT rights. Steve Chapman of the Chicago Tribune yesterday tackled the conservative claim that same-sex marriage “would grossly shortchange the needs of children ‘in order to further adult interests in sexual freedom’”: Now, it will come as a shock to heterosexual couples that
Lots of new in advance of the U. S. elections this coming Tuesday. Here are some of the highlights: An Alaska Superior Court will order the state to change its proposed requirements for benefits given to same-sex partners of state employees. Among other things, it ordered that partners who are jointly responsible for a child
I’m visiting Boston with partner and son on a house-hunting trip. We took a break today, however, to go to the Boston Children’s Museum—and got in free, thanks to a Reciprocal Membership I’d bought at our local Mid-Hudson Children’s Museum. The Reciprocal Membership Program, sponsored by the Association of Children’s Museums, gives free admission to
Several pieces of health news caught my eye today, so I’ve rolled them all into a single healthy treat: People may have overreacted to the link between children’s use of antidepressants and suicide, say researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Although an earlier FDA study showed that a very few people (about one
November is National Adoption Month, first celebrated (as a single week) in 1976. The observance culminates on National Adoption Day, November 18, when “courts and communities coast-to-coast will come together to finalize thousands of adoptions of children from foster care and to celebrate all families who adopt.” President Bush, like his predecessors back to Gerald
LGBT culture creeps in when you least expect it. No wonder the right wing is scared of us. My son loves when my partner or I make up stories for him. He can be very specific in his requests, however, and often tells us what characters he wants in the story, where they should be,
