Happy Pride, all! As parents, we know what pride is from the moment we first see our children. As LGBTQ people and/or their children, we also know what Pride is. In celebration of both kinds of pride, please join me and Family Equality Council on Monday, June 4, for #LGBTQFamiliesDay! Here are the simple ways to get involved!
We celebrate our fallen dead with barbecues and sales here in the United States. Sometimes there are parades and ceremonies, but often it’s just chicken, burgers, and the best prices of the year.
If you feel it’s your day, then celebrate! Whether you call yourself Mom, Mama, Mommy, Maman, Mamá, Mami, Momo, Momily, MaPa, Baba, Maddy, or any other parenting name, if you want to rejoice in your parental identity today (more so than any other day), go for it! Mother’s Day and Father’s Day can seem to underscore that LGBTQ families are different—but I say that’s all the more reason to reclaim the holidays as our own.
Let’s keep the Mother’s (s’) Day videos rolling with an entry from Teleflora about a two-mom family—part of their “Love Makes a Mom” Mother’s Day campaign.
Just in time for Mother’s Day, Houston-based soul band The Suffers has released a new video for their song “Mammas,” celebrating many kinds of mothers and family connections.
Happy International Family Equality Day! This year’s observance also marks the event becoming a non-governmental organization.
Spouses Ann T. Septick and Clea N. Liness created a hermetically sealed habitat for themselves and their family to protect them from ever getting sick, a move prompted by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) recent anti-LGBTQ moves.
This weekend is Passover and Easter, as well as April Fool’s Day, making things pretty busy for my fun-loving interfaith family. On top of all that, my spouse Helen and I are celebrating our 25th anniversary. I’m finding a lot of resonance in all four occasions.
Today is International Women’s Day, “a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women.” We do that year round at our house of two moms—but the day has gotten me thinking about how I first learned about the need for gender equity.
Happy New Year to you and your families!
May 2018 bring peace, joy, happiness, equality, and justice.
