Disney animator Andreas Deja, a 30-year veteran of the company, spoke with News.com.au about the idea of including same-sex parents in a future Disney film. Surprisingly, he thinks it could happen.
I’m very excited to invite you to a special event here at Mombian: a live, streaming interview on Monday, March 7 with #1 New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult about her latest novel, Sing You Home, the story of a lesbian couple and their attempts to have a child.
Happy birthday to the good doctor, who was born Theodor Seuss Geisel on this date in 1904. While we may not be able to celebrate quite like they do in Katroo, we can celebrate Read Across America Day, an annual “reading motivation and awareness program” run by the National Education Association (NEA). I feel obliged to point
With all the recent media attention about the need to support LGBTQ youth, it is notable that the American Library Association (ALA) is in its fourth year of giving librarians the tools to do just that.
Although it’s been nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Picture, most critics feel The Kids Are All Right, Lisa Cholodenko’s film about two lesbian moms, their teen children, and their sperm donor, won’t take home any prizes tonight. That’s okay. Whether it wins, or even if you disliked it (as many in the lesbian
Passing along this information from Keshet, the national organization for GLTBQ Jews: Keshet, a national nonprofit that works for the full inclusion of GLBTQ Jews, just launched a Jewish Children’s Book Writing Contest. While there are many great Jewish books for kids, Jewish children’s books that feature GLBTQ families or characters are extremely rare. The winner
Parenting magazine has a great article in this month’s issue titled, “Meet the Same-Sex Parents Next Door.” It’s very much in the category I call “Lesbian Parenting 101,” i.e., aimed at non-LGBT people who may not have met or thought about LGBT parents before. But consider the venue—a leading mainstream parenting magazine—and it’s a terrific
In all my excitement over the latest Rainbow Bibliography and Stonewall Children’s and Young Adult Literature Award, I neglected to mention that prolific children’s author and illustrator Tomie DePaola–who happens to be gay–won this year’s Laura Ingalls Wilder Award from the American Library Association. The award “honors an author or illustrator whose books, published in the United States, have made, over a period of years, a substantial and lasting contribution to literature for children.”
Actor Cynthia Nixon and her financée, education activist Christine Marinoni, welcomed a baby boy yesterday, reports People magazine. The couple already have two children, 14 and 8, from Nixon’s previous relationship. If you missed Nixon’s long interview last year with the Advocate, go read. She talks about meeting Marinoni, how her kids responded to their
OK, no Trojan guinea pigs here really, but Sarah Brannen, author and illustrator of Uncle Bobby’s Wedding, about two gay guinea pigs and their niece (see my longer piece on it here), has illustrated a new book, Digging for Troy: From Homer to Hisarlik. Brannen didn’t write this one—the authors are Jill Rubalcaba and Eric H. Cline—and
