My son’s preschool class has been talking about the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday. “Martin Luther King was a peacemaker,” my son informed me last week. “And a bad man shotted him.” All things considered, I’m glad he doesn’t say the word “shot” enough to know its proper grammatical usage. I agreed with his assessment […]
The Lambda Literary Foundation has announced nominees for the 20th Annual Lambda Literary Awards. I’ve reviewed a few of them on Mombian; here they are again, with links to the reviews: The Brides of March, Beren de Motier (iUniverse): A funny, touching memoir of the brief period of legal same-sex marriage in Multnomah County, Oregon.
(Originally published in Bay Windows, November 29, 2007.) Looking to find children’s gifts inclusive of LGBT families? Try some of these books and videos from 2007: For Young Children We Belong Together: A Book About Adoption and Families, by Todd Parr (Little, Brown Young Readers: 2007), showcases families of many configurations. Paired phrases like “We
The Daring Book for Girls, by Andrea J. Buchanan and Miriam Peskowitz, is the distaff version of the bestselling The Dangerous Book for Boys by Conn and Hal Iggulden. Like its male version, The Daring Book is a throwback to the children’s encyclopedias and magazines of old, full of games, activities, and bits of information
Passing along this invitation from the Family Equality Council. We may try to be at the event with our son, although this being both cold and holiday season, nothing is certain. If you’re going, too, though, drop me a note. I’d love to say hi in person. The Family Equality Council is hosting its first
It’s always a time of celebration when a new LGBT-inclusive storybook appears. Break out the chocolate milk and cookies, then, folks, because Todd Parr, author of LGBT-beloved works such as The Family Book and It’s Okay to Be Different, has done it again. Just in time for National Adoption Month comes We Belong Together: A
It’s time for this week’s video blog, published in partnership with After Ellen. This week, in our romp through the worlds of lesbian parenting and popular culture, my partner Helen and I bring you Ellen in a tutu! Gender bending on Sesame Street! Fun with dolls! Plus, a bevy of books about adoption in honor
November is National Novel Writing Month, when aspiring novelists are challenged to write a 50,000-word work (about 175 pages) in 30 days. In 2006, over 79,000 people participated and nearly 13,000 reached the 50,000-word goal. The organizers say: Valuing enthusiasm and perseverance over painstaking craft, NaNoWriMo is a novel-writing program for everyone who has thought
Commentary on J. K. Rowling’s outing of Dumbledore is still flying thicker than owls in the Hogwarts Dining Hall. Michael Jensen at After Elton questions why she didn’t reveal this sooner. John Cloud, a gay writer for TIME, wishes she hadn’t said anything: But as far as we know, Dumbledore had not a single fully
Making its way across the Internet faster than a blast-ended skrewt is the news that J. K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series, has outed Hogwarts Headmaster Albus Dumbledore. Speaking at Carnegie Hall in New York on Friday, she admitted she “always thought Dumbledore was gay.” Reuters reports: Rowling said Dumbledore fell in love
