I was among the first generation of kids to see the original Star Wars movie in 1977. I was 10 then, and when the third installment rolled around six years later, I was waiting in line for hours with friends at the local theater on opening day. I’ll be seeing The Force Awakens with my own son this week, and have been reflecting on some of the lessons I’ve learned from the series and what it has meant to me.
A two-mom couple gives us—and their four-year-old son—a great new interpretation of a holiday classic.
My annual gift guide for LGBTQ families is usually a roundup of the best LGBTQ-inclusive children’s and parenting books of the year—but I’m delighted that this year’s list includes several inclusive kids’ music albums as well.
I have two more tickets to give away to Lincoln Center Theater’s DADA WOOF PAPA HOT, a new play about gay dads by Peter Parnell, co-author of And Tango Makes Three—plus a discount code to see the show at more than a third off.
It’s National Adoption Day, so I’m celebrating by sharing a baker’s dozen of books about LGBTQ parents and adoption–children’s books, memoirs, and social science studies.
The tension between assimilation and queerness has long hovered over the LGBTQ community. As English writer Jonathan Kemp said a few years ago, “The assimilationists want gay marriage, inclusion in the military, the right to adopt children…. Queers, on the other hand … [regard] the most vibrant and radical aspect of homosexuality as being precisely its opposition to normative sexuality and society.” Two new memoirs, however, show that these concepts do not always have to oppose each other.
It’s Transgender Awareness Month, so I thought I’d share a trailer for the documentary “Transgender Parents.”
When Grammy nominee Judy Pancoast’s daughter assumed only Ken dolls could marry Barbies, Pancoast saw an opportunity for a song about marriage equality.
I’m very excited to be giving away tickets to Lincoln Center Theater’s Dada Woof Papa Hot, a new play about gay dads by Peter Parnell, co-author of And Tango Makes Three.
A happy way to end the week is with this great new video from Canadian band Walk Off the Earth about a transgender girl learning to be herself.
