Tomorrow night (February 18) at 8 pm EST, the Discovery Health Channel will premiere Fostering Love, a documentary about two gay dads. Here’s the official blurb: Fostering Love is the story of two California parents who have opened their home and their hearts to kids who desperately need both. We’ll meet Jim and Mark, a […]
I am very pleased to present the first of a new phase in the Family Voices series of interviews I launched back in 2007. This time, I am teaming up with Julieta of Ju, An y el Perro Activista to extend the series to include non-U.S. LGBT families. (Julieta’s network of LGBT families outside the
(Originally appeared in Bay Windows, February 4, 2009.) “Family law is very vague,” says Kimberly Richman, an associate professor of sociology and legal studies at the University of San Francisco. “That leaves room for a lot of open interpretation.” In her new book, Courting Change: Queer Parents, Judges, and the Transformation of American Family Law
What are you doing to celebrate love today? I will be enjoying the first week of school vacation with my spouse and our son. We don’t have any special plans, but I intend to bake a cake later just because I’m always looking for an excuse to do so. (It will probably be the Chocolate
Lawmakers in both houses of Congress reintroduced legislation to allow a foreign national’s domestic partner in the United States to sponsor their immigration to the country. The bill is now known as the Uniting American Families Act. In celebration of Freedom to Marry Week, same-sex couples applied for marriage licenses around the country, including Dallas,
I’ve added a few more videos to the Mombian YouTube channel this week, including a promo video for Camp Ten Trees, a summer camp near Seattle for LGBT children and children from LGBT families. There’s also a long trailer for Fatherhood Dreams, a Canadian documentary about two gay couples who are prospective dads. One of
Yes, rumors are flying that President Obama will repeal the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (DADT) policy. What happens when lesbian and gay personnel may serve openly, though, but will still not receive the support for their spouses and children to which other servicemembers are entitled? I explore that question in my column this week
Here’s to librarians. I’ve been thinking about them this week because of the piece I just did on the American Library Association’s Rainbow List, but librarians and borrowing also fit nicely with the theme for the third day of the Some/Thing blog carnival at The Other Mother: “Something Borrowed.” I’ve spent more hours than I
Today marks the first anniversary of the murder of openly gay teen Larry King (who identified as Letitia King in the weeks before the murder). I feel like a broken record, once again trotting out my list of safe schools resources, plus a few additional ones from GLSEN and PFLAG, as well as an update
Helen and I express shock that The L Word’s Helena actually remembered her children. We discuss that and other parenting storylines of this week’s episode, including the perils of enormous teddy bears. We also announce a new, selective list of LGBT-inclusive books for children and young adults (read more here), and tackle a viewer’s question
