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R Family Cruise: Day Two
The dance music starts early here on the Norwegian Dawn, piped onto the outside decks by 7:00 a.m. I know this because some crazy notion got me up then to go for a run. The beat was motivating—but then I went down to the fitness center where all the gay men working out made even
R Family Cruise: Day One
I was going to post this last night, but the ship’s Internet filtering software classified my site as “p___ography” (not spelling it so I don’t compound the problem). Not R Family’s fault, by any means, nor even the ship’s—they probably bought off-the-shelf filtering software. The problem is a societal one, and the fact that no
Bon Voyage!
I’m off with my family for a week of LGBT-family adventure on the R Family cruise. I’ll be live blogging from the ship, however, so do stop back to see if I have any profound thoughts about LGBT families en masse or exactly how many pounds of sand can get into a four-year-old’s swim trunks.
Not the Same Dana
To forestall any questions or confusion: I was in no way the inspiration for the character Dana in Logo’s upcoming new series The Happiest Gay Couple in the World, despite the storyline involving Dana and her partner trying to become parents. Curly hair like mine just can’t do a mullet like that. (For that matter,
R Family Cruise: T Minus Two Days
Posting is light this week because I know many folks are on vacation, and because I’m in the throes of preparing for my own. This Saturday, my partner and I and our four-year-old son will be setting sail on the R Family Summer Adventure cruise. We’ll be the special guests of the Family Pride Coalition,
Happy 4th of July
I’m celebrating my freedom today by not posting much. I will, however, offer this historical tidbit in honor of the many patriotic songs played today: Katharine Lee Bates, author of “America the Beautiful,” lived for 25 years with fellow Wellesley College professor Katherine Coman, in what is commonly called a “Boston marriage.” It may be
Melissa Etheridge Gets Wild About Reading
My son’s new favorite TV show is PBS Kids’ Between the Lions, which teaches early-reading skills through the tales of a pair of lions and their cubs who run a library. It’s pedagogically one of the best educational shows around—though I’ll continue to save the top spot for the venerable Sesame Street. Between the Lions
In Vitro Maturation of Eggs Offers New Fertility Hope
A Canadian baby is the first to be born using the process of “in vitro maturation (IVM),” in which an egg was matured in a lab, frozen, thawed, and then fertilized. Traditional in vitro fertilization (IVF) requires a series of hormone treatments that cause the ovaries to produce multiple mature eggs. IVM, which takes immature
Marriage and Parenthood: Changing Attitudes
Children are viewed as less central to marriage today, although they are still one of the highest sources of personal fulfillment, according to a new national survey by the Pew Research Center. (Thanks, WaPo.) Today, by almost three-to-one, Americans say the main purpose of marriage is the “mutual happiness and fulfillment” of adults rather than