A big thanks to everyone who participated in Blogging for LGBTQ Families Day this year, submitting a total of over 120 posts! I’m going to pick out some thematically related and/or complementary submissions and highlight them here over the next few weeks (along with my usual range of posts). I hope many of you have perused the posts already, but that this offers some additional ways to think about the connections among them. Let’s start with posts by grown children of LGBTQ parents.
- Shoshana, “the mid-twenties, mixed race, Jewish, pansexual daughter of two lesbians and an Indian sperm donor,” shares her take on”Questions not to ask the mixed race daughter of two Jewish lesbians” and explains what it was like for her “Coming out as a member of an LGBT+ family.”
- Kellen Kaiser gives her thoughts on “5 things you may not know about Queerspawn.” (Among other things, she offers the excellent point that many queerspawn feel “a connection [to the LGBTQ community], which goes beyond the description of an ‘Ally,’ even if the person/queerspawn in question identifies as heterosexual.”
- Mia Springer writes at HuffPo for RaiseAChild.US’ “Let Love Define Family” series, sharing what life has been like for her as the African American daughter of two White lesbians, adopted from foster care.
- Sonya, at the COLAGE KidSafe blog, writes of “Two Separate Identities,” hers and her moms’. She’s the queer child of lesbian moms, but explains that she is not queer because of them.
- Hannah Moch, who has two moms, writes at the GLAAD blog about why she publicly thanked her moms at her college graduation — including the fact that the two of them remained friends even after they broke up.
