There’s been a growing amount of coverage lately about parents supporting their gender variant and/or transgender children—most recently in a worthwhile New York Times article last week. Veronica Rhodes of Parent Dish, however, gives us a perspective seen even less often—that of a lesbian mom with a gender variant child. Rhodes explains the extra criticisms […]
The WNBA is 15 years old today. I remember being at the first game in 1997. (For those doing the math: the league was founded in 1996, but play began in 1997.) That means some of the players were my son’s age (eight) or younger when the league began. Now I feel old. Former WNBA
Sure, Father’s(s’) Day is over, but I can’t help sharing this great video of gay dads Mark Bromley and David Salie (brother of CBS News and NPR contributor Faith Salie). Kudos to them for such a funny, wise piece, and kudos to CBS News for running it.
Happy Father’s Day to all of you who are fathers, have fathers in your lives, or use Father’s Day to celebrate one of the parents in your family in whatever fashion works for you. There’s no dearth of Father’s Day reading around, but I’ll point out a couple of LGBT-relevant pieces here: “A Father’s Day
Father’s Day will be upon us this weekend, and while we’re usually all about the moms around here, I do want to take time to acknowledge the dads in our lives. Many of us have dads, or our spouses/partners do; some of us recognize our children’s biological and/or legal fathers for other reasons (previous relationships,
Those of you who have had kids in elementary school will likely know the Magic Schoolbus series. XKCD uses it to make a point about the state of science education: If you’re looking for real science resources for your children, check out Science News for Kids, an online science site for older elementary and middle
Here are five “Don’ts” and five “Do’s” that I’ve developed to help potential allies when they first encounter LGBT families.
The New York Times ran a must-read article yesterday on gender variance in children, “Boys Will Be Boys? Not in These Families.” Parents, says author Jan Hoffman, are increasingly accepting of gender nonconforming behavior in their children. “Rather than looking away,” she writes, “they are trying to understand their toddler’s unconventional gender behavior, in order
A lesbian couple in Albuquerque is filing a discrimination lawsuit against Rio Rancho Public Schools, claiming their daughter was harassed and bullied in fifth grade—including by the teacher—because she has two moms. According to KOB Eyewitness News 4, when the girl wrote an essay about her moms getting married in Iowa, the teacher “said that
Over at Viva la Feminista, Veronica has a great post about why she dislikes the term “Mr. Mom” and when someone asks her husband if he is “babysitting” the kids. She writes, “When he is caring for his daughter, he is her father, not a babysitter and certainly not a male version of me.” Amen
