Last night’s Academy Awards were full not only of queer moments, but of several that featured queer parents in particular. Did you catch them all—particularly the Black two-mom family in one short film/advertisement made just for the Oscars?
After other children’s shows took the lead in representing families with same-sex parents, the venerable Sesame Street is finally showing viewers a bigger picture of what families look like today.
“If These Ovaries Could Talk,” a fun and informative new podcast by two lesbian moms, shares stories of baby making and other aspects of raising and caring for our families. Meet them and have a listen!
The Fosters, the Freeform drama about two lesbian moms and their mix of five biological and adopted children, will end its run after five years on our screens—but like all good parents, they’re sending their children into the world to have adventures of their own.
Debra Chasnoff, the Academy Award-winning film director of Choosing Children, about the first generation of out lesbian moms, and a number of award-winning LGBTQ-inclusive educational films, has died at the age of 60 from breast cancer.
The two moms who gave us a glimpse into their foster-to-adopt journey this fall want to bring us a second season of their video series, looking more broadly at the world of foster care.
A new documentary follows three lesbian families as they fight for equality in Alabama. Watch a trailer and learn more about the still-ongoing struggle for relationship and parenting equality in this state.
My family and I took a trip to Disney World a few weeks ago (before the hurricane), an end-of-summer hurrah before our son started high school. The rides and entertainment still retain their magic for us—but on this trip, I was also thinking about how Disney both reflects and influences our society, and what that means in the current era for a queer family like ours.
It’s not news that Dungeons & Dragons, the venerable role-playing game, has taken a queer-friendly turn in recent years. (I wrote about it myself in 2014.) But did you know that a recent D&D adventure includes a two-dad family?
Can the gap between hater and hated ever be bridged? Writer, performer, and video maker Dylan Marron asks that question in a new podcast in which he converses with those who have sent him hate mail. It offers us all some useful lessons.
