Always on the lookout for lesbian moms on TV, I’ve been disappointed that Portia De Rossi’s character on Nip/Tuck seems to have vanished now that her love interest has gone back to dating one of the main male characters. Still, previews indicate the character’s daughter Eden will be in future episodes, so maybe we’ll see […]
Helen and I cover an assortment of parenting items this week, including Mary Cheney’s new job and the advantages of being a working mom with a Secret Service escort. We also caution viewers against repeating Tina’s big faux pas on The L Word if dating as a single mom, and attack the foolishness of the
A publicist sent me a copy of the Happy Baby, Healthy Mom Pregnancy Journal by Robert A. Greene, M.D. and Laurie Tarkan. I was looking forward to reviewing it, and glad that a general pregnancy publication from a mainstream press (Clarkson Potter, part of Random House) was reaching out to lesbian moms. The combination book
No, it’s not a turkey baster hooked up to a cryo tank. It’s the name of a new musical celebrating lesbian and gay families, running January 18-27 at San Diego’s Diversionary Theatre. Based on the book by Johnny Valentine, the show tells the tale of a boy with two moms who becomes disgruntled over not
The Lambda Literary Foundation has announced nominees for the 20th Annual Lambda Literary Awards. I’ve reviewed a few of them on Mombian; here they are again, with links to the reviews: The Brides of March, Beren de Motier (iUniverse): A funny, touching memoir of the brief period of legal same-sex marriage in Multnomah County, Oregon.
First, the Evesham School District in New Jersey said third graders (usually eight years old) are too young to hear children’s books featuring same-sex couples. Now, one family in Winnipeg, Canada, wants to transfer their twelve-year-old seventh grader to another school because the boy’s teacher has placed a photo of his same-sex spouse on his
Mary Cheney is ending her seven months of maternity leave and going back to work Monday. She’s taking a new job as a VP of strategic communications for Navigators LLC, “a full-service issue management, governmental relations and strategic communications firm” that has worked for that has worked for Arnold Schwarzenegger and John McCain, among others.
A couple of sporty lesbian moms in the news: Sports writer Kaki Flynn profiles lesbian mom Jenny Fulle, who in 1974 became “the first girl to officially play Little League baseball since the rule disallowing girls was added in 1951.” Fulle is now executive vice-president and executive producer of Sony Pictures Imageworks, whose film credits
A high school in Indiana banned a gay student from his prom when he arrived wearing a dress. Classmates came to his defense, and now, so has Lambda Legal. In Maine, the Bangor Daily News profiles the first same-sex couple in Penobscot County to do a second-parent adoption since they became legal in the state
