Dave Isay, founder of the phenomenal StoryCorps oral history project heard on NPR (and on the Web), spoke recently about how the inspiration for StoryCorps came from his dad’s coming out and relating the story of Stonewall.
Today is the Day of Silence, when many students from middle school to college choose not to speak, in order to call attention to the silencing effect of anti-LGBTQ bullying and harassment. LGBTQ youth and those with LGBTQ parents still face challenges—but there are slow changes for the better.
U.K. clothing and housewares retailer Matalan has a new ad campaign to highlight their tag line, “Made for Modern Families,” and they’ve included a pair of lesbian moms and a gay male couple among the diverse families they’re profiling.
The brand-new Chevy Colorado Z71 that arrived in our driveway was a screaming scarlet that would make most women I know either want to play firefighter or find a lipstick to match (or possibly both). My spouse and I were testing the truck for a week courtesy of Joe LaMuraglia, the LGBT communications manager at GM (see my previous post), since we needed something to pull our new camper. With the Colorado, we’d found a vehicle that made us want to throw on our flannel shirts and haul around some lumber.
Apple has just introduced families with same-sex parents, along with a variety of skin tones, to its emojis for messages and e-mails. That’s great. The problem? Those two features are mutually exclusive.
The front line of LGBTQ equality isn’t courts or state houses. It’s bakeries.
Houston Mayor Annise Parker, politician and lesbian mom, spoke recently with local ABC affiliate KTRK about her family and four adopted children.
A judge has blocked the U.S. Department of Labor’s new rule that married same-sex spouses who are otherwise eligible could to take time off under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), even if they don’t live in states that recognize their marriage.
Two adults with same-sex parents last week publicly defended families like theirs against those who sought to disparage them—including two gay men and a woman with two moms.
Gayby Baby, a wonderful documentary from the perspective of children with same-sex parents, will be premiering this April. Watch the trailer here.
