Twenty years ago today, I published the first post at Mombian. My son was 2 then; last month he graduated from college. I’ve been honored to write about LGBTQ families and to see our community thrive and grow over the past two decades. We face renewed challenges today, but I’ve seen our strength and resilience before.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled yesterday to uphold Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming health care for transgender youth. It’s an awful outcome that reveals the hypocrisy of conservatives’ talk about “parental rights”—but trans rights advocates are vowing to keep fighting.
Pride is not just a month, but a feeling—or rather, many feelings, and I am experiencing several of them right now as I mark personal, professional, and communal milestones.
Happy Father’s (or Fathers’) Day to the dads, to all who fill that role, and to all who claim today as their own. Let’s celebrate with a roundup of recent picture books (and one board book) featuring queer dads!
It’s a Pride Month baby for Canadian Olympic gold medalist and Boston Fleet forward Jamie Lee Rattray and her spouse Whitney, who welcomed their first child on June 7.
U.S. Space Force Colonel Bree Fram, a decorated officer with more than 20 years of service, is being kicked out of the military simply for being trans. She’s also a parent, and has spoken about the negative impact of the administration’s anti-trans policy on her family.
Today is the 13th annual Give OUT Day, a time to boost our collective impact as we give to LGBTQ nonprofits. Even small donations can have a big effect today. Please give if you can, and help spread the word regardless.
How do queer moms parent their sons? The question isn’t just “Are our kids okay?” explained Gail Marlene Schwartz, co-editor of a new book on the topic. “We feel like that’s been established.” Instead, the book asks whether queer moms have “something particular to offer in terms of nurturing healthy masculinity,” Schwartz said.
Republican legislators in Ohio want to designate the time between Mother’s Day and Father’s Day as “Natural Family Month,” an attempt to exclude LGBTQ and other families that don’t fit a one-mom, one-dad structure. For 20 years, however, LGBTQ Families Day has sat between the two holidays with a message of inclusion, not exclusion.
The Ottawa Charge take the ice tonight for the start of the PWHL Finals against the Minnesota Frost, so of course I’m covering the queer mom angle. The Charge captain is a queer mom, and one of their goalies, also a queer mom, has unveiled an amazing new mask depicting her own family.
