Parental observation of the day: You can bring a four-year-old to new and exotic locales, but chances are he (or she) will be more enraptured by the fire truck going down the street than by any historic or natural attractions. Key West was fun, if blisteringly hot. We took a glass-bottomed boat tour to see […]
This week’s Family Voices interview is with lesbian moms and lawyers NS and AH, who live in California with their toddler. Below, they talk about their extended family of over 20 nieces and nephews, sleep deprivation, balancing family and work, and more. As with the previous families highlighted in this feature, they are members of
The dance music starts early here on the Norwegian Dawn, piped onto the outside decks by 7:00 a.m. I know this because some crazy notion got me up then to go for a run. The beat was motivating—but then I went down to the fitness center where all the gay men working out made even
I was going to post this last night, but the ship’s Internet filtering software classified my site as “p___ography” (not spelling it so I don’t compound the problem). Not R Family’s fault, by any means, nor even the ship’s—they probably bought off-the-shelf filtering software. The problem is a societal one, and the fact that no
I’m off with my family for a week of LGBT-family adventure on the R Family cruise. I’ll be live blogging from the ship, however, so do stop back to see if I have any profound thoughts about LGBT families en masse or exactly how many pounds of sand can get into a four-year-old’s swim trunks.
Another slow week, though a few items popped up: TIME magazine has a long article about how some jurisdictions that have banned same-sex marriage are nevertheless endorsing adoption by same-sex couples. “But the gay adoption boom may be less about support for gay rights than it is about the urgency of finding homes for abandoned
To forestall any questions or confusion: I was in no way the inspiration for the character Dana in Logo’s upcoming new series The Happiest Gay Couple in the World, despite the storyline involving Dana and her partner trying to become parents. Curly hair like mine just can’t do a mullet like that. (For that matter,
Posting is light this week because I know many folks are on vacation, and because I’m in the throes of preparing for my own. This Saturday, my partner and I and our four-year-old son will be setting sail on the R Family Summer Adventure cruise. We’ll be the special guests of the Family Pride Coalition,
I’m celebrating my freedom today by not posting much. I will, however, offer this historical tidbit in honor of the many patriotic songs played today: Katharine Lee Bates, author of “America the Beautiful,” lived for 25 years with fellow Wellesley College professor Katherine Coman, in what is commonly called a “Boston marriage.” It may be
