If you have any interest in gender variance, self-expression, taking no nonsense from bigots, or a mother’s love, go read “My son is gay,” by Cop’s Wife over at Nerdy Apple Bottom. It’s an amazing piece, and well worth your time.
Helen and I discuss homemade Halloween costumes, an excess of candy, classic and new DVDs, and swapping parental roles. Mombian: She Got Me Pregnant, 11-04-2010 Uploaded by drudolph. – More gay and lesbian lifestyle videos. (If the embedded video above doesn’t work for you, try it at Dailymotion.) Brought to you in partnership with After
Go librarians. The American Library Association (ALA) this week announced it will add an annual award for “English-language works for children and teens of exceptional merit relating to the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered experience.”
November is National Adoption Month, so I’ll be posting a bunch of adoption-related resources over the next few weeks. I’ll start with the HRC National Adoption Month page, which has links to information for both prospective parents and child welfare professionals, along with news and event listings. And because a Florida circuit court recently overturned
If you haven’t yet voted today, get out and do it. Control of Congress hangs in the balance (along with many and sundry local issues). Bring the kid(s) and make it a lesson in citizenship. (If they’re too young for that, bring them anyway. The seniors who staff the voting booths will coo over them
Children’s musicians Erin Lee Kelly and Marci Applebaum have been kind enough to do a monthly guest post about children’s music for a few years now. (It all started when I heard them perform their song “Fine By Me” on an R Family cruise: “My family doesn’t look like the families do in picture books/And
