5 Ways to Honor and Support LGBTQ and All Veterans Today
It’s Veteran’s Day here in the U.S., which means my veteran spouse deserves an especially nice dinner tonight. Here are some other ways to support veterans, LGBTQ and not.
Holidays
“Spirit Day” Board Book Encourages Kids to Be Kind and Stand Up to Bullying
A new board book uses the occasion of GLAAD’s annual Spirit Day (today!) to teach the very youngest kids about the importance of kindness and caring as a way to prevent bullying.
Get Your “I Love My Mummies” Halloween T-Shirts Now!
They’re back! Get your “I Love My Mummies” t-shirts, mugs, and other items for Halloween!
Rainbows Are Made of Visible Light: A Post for National Coming Out Day
Today is National Coming Out Day. This year, it falls just days after the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in a case that could deny employment protections to LGBTQ people and force many of us back into the closet in order to keep supporting our families. As many of us queer parents know from personal experience, coming out is not just a simple matter of finding the courage, but of balancing our needs and those of our children.
Happy 14th Blogiversary to Mombian!
Mombian is 14 today! A great big thank you to everyone who’s read, shared, commented, e-mailed, and otherwise engaged with the site, other readers, and me!
Happy Father’s Day to All the Dads (and 3 Things You Can Do to Help Bring Equality to Their Lives)
Wishing a very happy Father’s Day (or Fathers’ Day, if that’s how you roll) to all of the dads out there! Gay dads, bisexual dads, transgender and gender creative dads, straight dads who love and support their LGBTQ children (or their LGBTQ parents), people who are father figures regardless of biological or legal fatherhood, and anyone else who uses this day to honor your parenthood, may it be a time of joy and love. In addition to new ties, however, get the dads in your life something they’ll really appreciate: your efforts towards equality! Here are three ways to do so.
Mother’s Day as an Act of Resistance
Mother’s Day and Father’s Day can be fraught times for LGBTQ parents and our children, seemingly designed to underscore that our families are different. I try to see them, however, as opportunities to remind the world that queer families exist. By raising our voices on these days—or sometimes, simply being visible—we resist the attempts of those trying to ignore or eliminate us, and we welcome all who take on the mantle of parenthood.
Happy International Family Equality Day!
Today marks the 8th annual International Family Equality Day, and organizations and individuals in over 100 cities and 50 countries across the globe will be taking part!
Passover Questions for LGBTQ Families
Passover begins tonight, and although I’m somewhat casual in my observance, I love that the holiday, which commemorates the Jewish people’s journey out of slavery in Egypt, has become a time for reflection on freedom and social justice. This year, I’ve been thinking about how we LGBTQ parents might use the traditional “Four Questions” of Passover to guide our modern-day journeys.
Passover Reflections on Faith, Freedom, and Family
I’ve been celebrating the spring holidays with my interfaith family and reflecting that Passover and Easter this year come in the shadow of ongoing and spiteful religious exemption laws in a growing number of states and in the federal government. These laws, widely seen as targeting the LGBTQ community, would allow people to cite their religious beliefs as a reason to discriminate against others. I have to remind myself, however, that we shouldn’t set religion and LGBTQ equality as necessarily opposing forces.