Two Queer Parents with Disabilities Share Their Stories
Two queer parents with disabilities recently spoke with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Radio National about their experiences. Have a listen (or read the transcript)!
Health and Safety
World AIDS Day: Parents and Children
I don’t often post on weekends, but today is World AIDS Day, so I’m continuing my tradition of sharing stories and statistics about parents and children with HIV/AIDS. Even in the fourth decade of its existence, the disease continues to shatter lives and decimate communities.
Parents Play Key Role in “Conversion Therapy” Efforts — and Harm — for LGBT Youth
A new study has shown the key, damaging, role parents play in “conversion therapy” efforts to change their LGBT children’s sexual orientation, and how this exacerbates health and adjustment problems for their children even into young adulthood.
Changing the Landscape of Hate
This landscape is familiar, strewn with ash and blood. We’ve been here before, too often, seeking the living, counting our dead. I know the terrain, can pick my way stumbling over the bodies, the stench of fear and hatred lingering in the air; the thoughts and prayers; the headlines and statistics.
Your Help Needed to Increase Understanding of LGBTQ Families
Two new studies seek to increase people’s understanding of LGBTQ families—but they need your help!
Spirit Day: Speak Out Against Bullying and for LGBTQ Youth
Today is Spirit Day, GLAAD’s annual event to speak out against anti-LGBTQ bullying and stand with LGBTQ youth, who disproportionately face bullying and harassment. Our nation’s leader continues to set an example of a bully in action, making events like Spirit Day—and the actions they can inspire all year long—more critical than ever.
LGBTQ Parenting Roundup
Here’s what’s happening that I haven’t covered in depth elsewhere. Pull up a cup of coffee, tea, or other beverage and read on!
How to Talk with Kids About Consent
The news this week has once again underscored the need to teach children at an early age about consent. Here are a few resources to help parents and teachers address the topic in age-appropriate ways.
In the Face of Disaster: Helping Children Cope
A hurricane bearing down on the Carolinas. Wildfires in California. A typhoon in the Phillipines. A gas line fault causing multiple explosions and fires in residential areas near me in Massachusetts. All this in the week of 9/11. Disasters are much on my mind, so here are a few resources to help us parents help our kids prepare for them and cope during and after—including one resource that’s unabashedly queer.
Queer Families and Reproductive Rights
While IVF has become an important part of LGBTQ family creation, we should be careful not to equate the two. At the same time, we need to realize that current threats to reproductive health care could impact the LGBTQ community as much as any other.