[Editor’s Note: A reader left a comment on a post I wrote last fall about LGBT resources for teens. She wanted to know about safe-sex resources for her bi daughter. Blogger Serena Freewomyn, who has been a youth counselor and founded the Feminists for Choice site, was kind enough to write a whole guest post
(I’ve written about Showtime’s Nurse Jackie before. Below is my extended piece on the “lesbian mom” episode that aired a few weeks ago. Originally published in Bay Windows and Philadelphia Gay News. Obsessive fans may also want to read After Ellen’s interview with the show’s creators, out lesbians Linda Wallem and Liz Brixius.) Finally, someone
Reader Laurie left a comment on the open thread earlier this week, and I wanted to bump it up to a full post so more people would see it. She raises a question many of us ask: I have a friend who is struggling with what to tell her 3 year old about not having
Helen and I take a retrospective look at the Disney classic Dumbo. What holds up after 70 years? What is just plain odd? (Psychedelic pachyderms, anyone?) And what should be relegated to the far, far past? Mombian: She Got Me Pregnant, 08-06-09 by drudolph (If the embedded video doesn’t work for you, try it at
Yesterday, I posted a recent column in which I reviewed several new books and films for and about LGBT families. It turns out the conservative Massachusetts Family Institute, which took the lead fighting against marriage equality here in the Bay State, didn’t like it so much—or maybe they did. In their latest e-newsletter, they included
What’s on your minds today, readers? Keeping the kids amused during the summer? The weather? Back-to-school preparation? (Please, not yet.) President Obama’s cupcakes? Leave a comment!
A gunman opened fire at the basement location of the LGBT Tel Aviv Community Center on Saturday night, killing two and wounding 11 others. He remains at large. The Center was a haven for LGBT youth and their friends. The two who died were Nir Katz, 26, and Liz Trobishi, 16. Katz was gay and
Here’s a little piece of advice for families living in Washington, D.C.: The city recently passed laws recognizing same-sex couples who were married or legally partnered in a “substantially similar” way outside the District. HRC warns people, though that if you are already hitched and want to cover your spouse or partner through your employer’s
Helen and I use the arrival of Cat Cora’s fourth child to talk about creating our own, using a similar egg donation process (though without the simultaneous pregnancies of Cat and her partner Jennifer). We also use a passing comment about two moms and two mortgages on Nurse Jackie to discuss saving for a child’s
Phyllis J. Fleming, who died last month at the age of 84, was a pioneering physics professor. She received her doctorate in 1955, when such degrees in any field, much less the hard sciences, were rare for women. She spent 50 years of her life teaching at Wellesley College in Massachusetts. While I did not
