Sure, you’re spending the day re-watching Dustin Lance Black and Sean Penn’s acceptance speeches after winning Oscars for Milk. Take a few moments, however, to listen to the second segment on the Valentine’s Day episode of This American Life. Each of the show’s three vignettes focuses on someone “searching for people who will understand them
Beginning with the vibrant sunburst and smiling child on its cover, Marcus Ewert’s 10,000 Dresses is a joyous book about self-acceptance and identity. It is also the only children’s picture book that features an openly transgender protagonist, and does so with both sensitivity and celebration. Young Bailey dreams of 10,000 beautiful dresses made of crystals,
(Originally published in Bay Windows, Thursday Feb 19, 2009.) Last week I registered my son for his first year in our public school system. It was one of life’s strange coincidences that news also broke last week about my very own state representative, House Minority Leader Bradley Jones, who filed a bill to require parental
Max Mutchnick, creator of Will & Grace, shares his story of trying to get through airport security with his (male) spouse and their two girls. It’s hilarious, as one might expect from Mutchnick, but the real kicker is at the end. A lesson for us all.
Passing along this information from COLAGE about their 2009-10 Fellowship Program. Any questions, please contact them. (Info at bottom of post.) In addition to the Fellowship below, COLAGE also awards four $1000 scholarships to children of LGBTQ parents. See their Web site for more details. The application deadline for the scholarships is May, 1, 2009,
If you’re like me, you’ve read an awful lot about Prop 8, and while you still want to get the word out to those who need education about it, are probably getting a bit tired yourself of reading yet another article pro or con. Read this one, though. It’s by Amanda Young of Verde, a
Helen and I discuss the proposed legislation by our very own Massachusetts state rep, which could restrict children of LGBT parents from talking about their families in school and require students to get parental permission before joining gay-straight alliances. How should one approach such local homophobia? What are we planning to do? Plus shameless parental
Many school districts had the week off. How did this affect you? {democracy:17}
The Chicago Tribune yesterday published “Gay parents rights issue divides U.S., not families,” with the subtitle, “Sociologists find that children of gays are no more likely to suffer from psychological problems than kids raised in conventional homes.” If you’ve been around this rodeo for a while, you’ll recognize that the studies they cite have existed
It’s a night of lesbian and gay parents on TV! Tonight, right after Fostering Love, a documentary about gay dads on Discovery Health (8 p.m. EST and again at 11), is Finn’s Girl on Logo (9 p.m. EST). I did a review last fall of this film about a lesbian mom and her tween daughter,
