Actor Candis Cayne plays one of the few transgender roles on primetime television (in ABC’s Dirty Sexy Money), and is transgender herself. ABC News has a profile on her today. What stands out for me in the article is Cayne’s description of her parents’ reaction when she came out as transgender: “When I told my
Here’s this week’s post in my Family Voices series. COLAGE (Children of Lesbians and Gays Everywhere) member Terrance talks about being the gay son of a gay dad, his many non-profit activities, and some of the lessons he’s learned over the years. A big thank you again to COLAGE for asking their members to participate
Thanksgiving is nearly upon us here in the U.S., so I thought it might be fun for us to share some recipes for that or other upcoming holidays. Leave a comment here or post on your own blog and leave the link. Recipes from non-lesbians and non-moms welcome, too. For my own contribution, I’ll offer
It’s time for this week’s video blog, published in partnership with After Ellen. This week, in our romp through the worlds of lesbian parenting and popular culture, my partner Helen and I bring you Ellen in a tutu! Gender bending on Sesame Street! Fun with dolls! Plus, a bevy of books about adoption in honor
Finally, someone talking about women’s careers and families and not making it sound like an epic battle. In an article at Huffington Post, Emily Amick and Rosanna Hertz report on their survey of women from the Wellesley College classes of 2007, 2008 and 2009 “to find out their expectations for work and family.” What they
Garden State Equality, New Jersey’s LGBT advocacy group, nails it with this marriage-equality commercial featuring two gay dads:
Here’s this week’s post in my Family Voices series. COLAGE (Children of Lesbians and Gays Everywhere) member Asha talks about being second-generation queerspawn, how to survive when families get “messy,” and why COLAGE matters to her. Tell us a little about the family in which you grew up. Who was in it? Anything particular you’d
A new study from the Williams Institute at UCLA (PDF link) has shown that the number of same-sex couples in the U.S. reporting themselves as “unmarried partners” quintupled between 1990 and 2006. The biggest increases were in socially conservative Southern and Mountain states, and states barring legal acceptance of same-sex couples. This seems odd—or highly
How are you adjusting yourselves or your kids to the end of Daylight Saving Time? (Or how did you adjust if you’re in part of the world that changed the clocks last week?) Do you shift bedtimes all at once, or gradually over a few days? Is it harder on you or them? I have
Just in case you haven’t had your daily dose of irony, here’s a bit of news for the first day of National Adoption Month, “a month set aside to raise awareness about the adoption of children from foster care”: A Utah man, Gregg Valdez, who with his partner took in his niece’s four children when
