The new children’s CD “Rainbow Train” celebrates gender diversity with great music and exuberant lines like “You don’t have to be just a boy or a girl/You can be a beautiful blended swirl.”
Dave Isay, founder of the phenomenal StoryCorps oral history project heard on NPR (and on the Web), spoke recently about how the inspiration for StoryCorps came from his dad’s coming out and relating the story of Stonewall.
The American Library Association (ALA) has released its annual list of the 10 most frequently challenged books—and once again, ones with LGBTQ content are on it.
A 25th anniversary edition of Lesléa Newman’s children’s book “Heather Has Two Mommies,” with brand-new illustrations and updated text, has given the classic new life for families today. And Newman is amazed that some of the children who read Heather when it first came out could now be reading it to their own children, she told me in an interview.
Stop what you’re doing and go watch this endearing short film about a girl with two moms learning about her creation. The daughter is played by Bea Miller, who went on to a top-10 spot on The X Factor and has two moms in real life!
At the GLAAD Media Awards last weekend, actor Kerry Washington received the Vanguard Award—and used her acceptance speech to talk about what it means to be an ally across many types of identity.
Gayby Baby, a wonderful documentary from the perspective of children with same-sex parents, will be premiering this April. Watch the trailer here.
Did you catch One Big Happy, the new sitcom about a single lesbian having a baby with her straight male best friend, Tuesday night? What did you think? I wanted to like it—but wasn’t impressed.
A revised, 25th anniversary edition of the classic Heather Has Two Mommies revitalizes the tale for families of today.
Fifth grader Zoe, at her blog Kids’ Animal Station, has written a terrific review of And Tango Makes Three, the lovely picture book about two male penguins who raise a chick together.
