While we’ve been gearing up for and winding down from Blogging for LGBTQ Families Day, lots of things have been in the news related to LGBTQ families. Let’s round them up!
Family Profiles
- Playbill takes a look at “Same-Sex Parents in the Broadway Community,” interviewing three sets of parents about balancing work and parenting, being part of a long-distance parenting family (moms in one state; acknowledged dads in another), and more.
- The Salt Lake City Tribune profiles several children of same-sex parents in the Beehive State about the impact of the legal debates related to marriage equality and adoption by same-sex couples. Fun fact: About 26 percent of all same-sex couples in the Salt Lake City metro area are raising children, one of the highest percentages in the country.
- Gay dad Igael Gurin- Malous writes about taking his daughter to the feminine hygiene aisle for the first time.
Politics and Law
- A two-mom couple in Queensland, Australia, won a court case to remove their children’s biological father’s name from their birth certificates.
- In Florida, an appeals court reversed a lower court order that had nullified the adoption in a two-mom family after the moms broke up. The biological mom had tried to have the nonbiological mom’s second-parent adoption rescinded, but the appeals court said it should stand. (Ladies: Don’t try this kind of crap if you break up!)
Media and Entertainment
- There’s a new children’s book designed to introduce those in the Pakistani community to the idea of having a gay relative. My Chacha Is Gay, by Pakistani Canadian author Eiynah, has been picked up for use in some schools and bookstores in Toronto, but Eiynah says she’s raised money for it from all over the world, including “large chunks” from Pakistan.
- Actor Robert DeNiro spoke with Out magazine about his gay dad and the upcoming documentary about his father’s life.
- Madame Noire uses DeNiro’s news as a jumping-off point to look at other “Celebrities with Gay Parents.” I haven’t confirmed all of these, but according to Madame Noire, they include actors Dorothy Dandridge, Lynn Redgrave, and Jodie Foster (herself a lesbian).
- ABC Family’s two-mom, five-kid drama The Fosters has won Television Academy Honors “For using the power of television to bring awareness to important social issues.”