April 2008

“She Got Me Pregnant”: Episode 24

This week, Helen and I remind viewers of the long-lost parenting storyline on Jackie Warner’s Work Out. We also commemorate tax week with a rant on our own filings, and on a more positive note, discuss various approaches to children’s allowances and why we don’t have any answers. Plus: What were those weird pipes in […]

Cynthia Nixon Talks About Breast Cancer, Her Children, and Mom Names

Cynthia Nixon, best known for her role in Sex and the City (less known for her inclusion in Mombian’s “Most Powerful Lesbian Moms” list), has become an ambassador for breast-cancer organization Susan G. Komen for the Cure. Nixon is a breast-cancer survivor herself, and the daughter of a two-time survivor. She spoke with Good Morning

HRC Tackles FMLA for LGBT

I’ve written before about how the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) leaves same-sex families behind. Looks like HRC is stepping up to the plate here: The DoL [Department of Labor] issued a notice that they plan to make changes to some of the regulations governing how the FMLA is administered—and asked groups to comment.

Reader Appreciation Day: “Families Like Mine” Giveaway

It’s Reader Appreciation Day, an event organized by Robin Reagler of The Other Mother. I thought it would be appropriate, therefore, to have another giveaway, this time of Abigail Garner’s must-read book, Families Like Mine: Children of Gay Parents Tell It Like It Is. Abigail writes from her own experience of having a gay dad

Working It Out

This week’s poll is in honor of season three of Work Out, which provides just enough women’s-sports coverage (and lesbian visibility) to get us through the gap between the end of March Madness and the start of the WNBA season. (Then it’s on to Wimbledon, the Olympics, and the U.S. Open here in the Mombian

What Poems Do Your Kids Like?

It’s National Poetry Month, a time “to celebrate poetry and its vital place in American culture.” Mother Goose and Dr. Seuss have played a part in many of our children’s lives, but I’m wondering: what poets or poems do your children like as they get older (and what other ones have they enjoyed while young)?

Syringe

Injections, Eggs, and Attorneys: How We Conceived

I’ve had a number of women contact me over the past couple of years to ask about the procedure Helen and I went through to have our child. We used my egg and her uterus, making things a tad more complicated than the usual assisted reproduction. I’ve e-mailed back a version of the below to

Weekly Political Roundup

Presidential candidate Barack Obama dishes with The Advocate. Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton dishes with Ellen. The Arizona House Judiciary Committee voted on a state constitutional amendment to define marriage as between one man and one woman. It now goes to the full House, and if approved, the Senate.

Queer Eggs and Ham

School administrators in Bristol, England have removed the books King & King and And Tango Makes Three, and the DVD That’s a Family from two primary schools. Some parents complained that they should have been consulted before LGBT-inclusive materials were used in the classroom. The schools had introduced the books in order to comply with

“She Got Me Pregnant”: Episode 23

Helen and I did not go to the Dinah Shore weekend this year, but we recreate the event (minus the lesbian pool parties) with a homemade mini-golf tournament in our living room. Yes, it’s harder to take off for events like the Dinah when you have kids, but there’s no excuse not to travel with

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