Back-to-school time can be daunting for any parent. LGBTQ parents may have particular concerns, too, about how welcoming a school will be. I’m not here to tell you it will all be fine, but I will offer some advice based on my own experience.
My son is in college now, but it feels like just yesterday he was in preschool and my day of queer parenting looked something like this.
I’ve seen my son through 12 years of public school, so here are some of my best tips for other LGBTQ parents, plus my annual resource list about creating welcoming schools, developing inclusive curricula, supporting LGBTQ youth in sports, countering book bans, and more.
It’s that time of year again, so here are more than 30 LGBTQ-inclusive picture books involving first days of school or other school situations—plus a bonus of three classics published more than four decades ago, showing just how long such books have been around!
Yes, this thorough, graphic-style guide to menstruation from the authoritative Mayo Clinic is fully inclusive of people of all genders who get periods! Read on for my review and how it compares to some similar titles.
My spouse Helen and I recently chatted with Lisa Schuman of the Donor Conception Conversations podcast about creating our family via reciprocal IVF 20 years ago, talking with our son about his donor, interacting with his schools, legally securing my parentage, and much more. Have a listen!
The 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup kicks off July 20, with a record number of queer players—and there are moms (and moms-to-be) among them! Let’s learn a little about them and see photos of their families!
Minnie Bruce Pratt, an acclaimed poet, essayist, and activist who wrote, among other things, about losing custody of her children when she came out as a lesbian, died on July 4 of an aggressive brain tumor at age 76.
Dr. Cheri A. Pies, whose 1985 book, Considering Parenthood: A Workbook for Lesbians, helped innumerable queer women become parents during the “gayby boom” of the 1980s, died from cancer on July 4 at the age of 73. If you don’t know her name yet, you should; in many ways, all of us queer parents who came after have benefited from her work, whether we know it or not.
To celebrate Nonbinary Awareness Week, here are several dozen wonderful, creative nonbinary parent names and the stories behind them, all submitted by nonbinary parents or their spouses/partners to the LGBTQ Parental Names Project that I’ve been running since 2011.
