A new middle-grade book, just released today, is told through a series of letters from a 10-year-old girl with two moms to her soon-to-be-born sibling, during a momentous year for both marriage equality and her favorite basketball team.
This Sunday on CBS’ show Madam Secretary, the character Kat Sandoval (played by bisexual actor Sara Ramirez), will come out as both bisexual and a parent in an episode that also deals with international LGBTQ rights. Watch a clip.
Two of my favorite LGBTQ-inclusive kids’ books of recent years are Cory Silverberg and Fiona Smyth’s works on sexuality and reproduction, What Makes a Baby? and Sex Is a Funny Word. Now, the two want your input for their next volume.
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?
Many of us queer parents (myself included) bemoan the lack of LGBTQ-inclusive children’s books, especially for younger tots. There’s one potential source for these books, however, that has not yet been fully tapped: tie-ins to the increasing (though still small) number of LGBTQ-inclusive kids’ television shows.
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.
The first book for LGBTQ families in Eastern Europe is building on the success of a January giveaway and launching an Indiegogo campaign to get the book into the hands of more children.
A gorgeous, beautifully written new graphic novel about a genderqueer prince breathes new life into old tropes. Learn more and take a sneak peek at some of the pages.
Several authors of queer-inclusive kids’ books are making their stories available free—one just for today!
Author Jacqueline Woodson, recently inaugurated National Ambassador for Children’s Literature and a queer mom, won the American Library Association’s (ALA’s) Laura Ingalls Wilder Award for books that have made “a substantial and lasting contribution to literature for children.” Several other LGBTQ children’s books and their authors were also honored at the ALA’s annual Youth Media Awards today.
