Four heroes in the news: Trans activist Jenn Burleton, founder and executive director of TransActive Education & Advocacy, a Portland, Oregon based organization that works with parents and schools to support transgender and gender-variant children. 18-year-old student Clyde Calloway, for helping to organize a Gay-Straight Alliance at his high school in rural Kentucky, despite threats […]
As anyone who’s been around the LGBT blogosphere in the last 24 hours knows, The L Word will return next year for a sixth and final season. Let’s take a quick poll: {democracy:2}
Lesléa Newman, author of Heather Has Two Mommies, was recently named Poet Laureate of Northampton, Massachusetts. In addition to Heather, Newman has authored over 50 works for children, young adults, and grown-ups. Her literary awards including Poetry Fellowships from the Massachusetts Artists Fellowship Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, the Highlights for Children
Logo has launched a public service announcement in response to last month’s hate-crime murder of 15-year-old gay student Lawrence King and other young hate-crime victims. The PSA seems aimed at young people. Many of Logo’s sister brands across MTV Networks will carry it, though Logo is making it available to other networks as well. The
The Family Equality Council (FEC) today launches Project Harmony, a new initiative designed to ensure “that the issues and concerns of families of color are part of the national dialogue on LGBTQ family equality.” “We are committed to building the most informed and effective national programs serving LGBTQ families of color and to fully integrating
The media-ally award of the week goes to Bloomberg’s Ann Woolner, who wrote the gleefully sarcastic If Gays Can Marry, I Just Might Cancel My Wedding. No new arguments here for those of us who’ve been following the marriage equality battle, but it’s always good to see another person make the case. Woolner is, of
In case you missed it in our vlog yesterday, here’s the new trailer for Dottie’s Magic Pockets, the first (but not only) video for young children of LGBT families and their friends. Also, be sure to check out their new Web site, which launched today. It has more clips from the show and a list
(OK, no more penguin posts for a while after this. I promise.) LGBT documentary series In the Life will be airing a segment about children’s book And Tango Makes Three in its April show. They talk with the authors about the making of the book, and with a second-grade teacher about her positive experience using
Looks like the Loudoun County, Virginia school superintendent’s backpedaling over And Tango Makes Three was in the right direction. According to the Washington Post: On Monday, school officials issued a written statement saying that the book also would return to the shelves at Sugarland [Elementary School] because [Superintendent] Hatrick had discovered “significant procedural errors” in
The gay-straight alliance at one of the high schools in our area was sponsoring a showing of Love Makes a Family, the great traveling exhibit of photographs and interviews featuring LGBT families. Yesterday, the exhibit was open to the public. Even though I’d seen it before, I took my son after preschool.
