I’m finishing up vacation here in California and will be in transit and/or up to my eyeballs in dirty laundry for the next couple of days. I suspect many of you (at least in the U.S.) are traveling this week, too. If you are still online, however, why not take a few moments over this very American holiday to be a world citizen as well and read about same-sex parents in the Czech Republic? According to the article, parental rights were one of the key motivating factors for the country’s first-ever Pride march last Saturday.
The link was sent to me by Sylva Ficova, one of the founders of Lesbický koutek, “a site for Czech lesbian (and gay) couples who have or want to have kids.” She is also a member of Stejnarodina (The Same Family), whose goal is “the legislative emancipation of Czech LGBT families.” (These last two sites are in Czech, which is beyond my language skills; Google Translate does a pretty horrible job on them, but may give you at least a sense of their content.) I hope we can all learn something by sharing our experiences, even across the boundaries of language and culture.
If you missed it, you may also want to read last week’s guest post about lesbian parenting in Argentina. (If you live outside the U.S. and would like to contribute a guest post with your perspective on LGBT parenting in your country, please drop me a note. I’m happy to ask other readers to help with translation, if needed.)