Despite how it may appear, other things have been happening recently in addition to Jodie Foster coming out. Here are a few:
- Rosie O’Donnell and her spouse Michelle Rounds welcomed their first child as a couple. O’Donnell has four children with her former spouse, Kelli Carpenter.
- Melissa Hart, author of Gringa: A Contradictory Girlhood
, about growing up with a lesbian mom, writes in the LA Times of her family’s holiday traditions. She begins, “Two lesbians, a man with Down’s syndrome and a Jewish couple walk into a Chinese restaurant on Christmas Eve”—and if that doesn’t make you want to read the rest, I don’t know what will.
- The Advocate reports on something I couldn’t have imagined a few years ago: “The LGBT Parents of Prime Time.” (There is still little racial variety among them, and few bisexual or transgender parents, but it’s a start.)
- A school district in Utah has put a book about a family with lesbian moms back on its shelves after some parents had asked for its removal. A lawsuit from the American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Utah forced the district to replace In Our Mothers’ House
, by Patricia Polacco—although parents will be able to request that their children specifically not be allowed to check it out.
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