On Tuesday, NASA Commander Pamela Melroy is scheduled to blast off in the space shuttle Discovery, headed for the International Space Station (ISS), where she will be met by ISS Commander Peggy Whitson. This is the first time women have been in command of both the shuttle and the ISS at the same time. The
A golden retriever in Virginia has stepped in to mother a stray kitten, and even began producing milk for the tiny feline when she refused the bottles her human rescuers offered. Love makes a family indeed. Virginia. The state where alternative animal families make the news, but where “courts have routinely discriminated against gays and
Those of you starting or adding to your families may want to check out the Baby Name Map, a Google Maps mashup that shows you the popularity of baby names in the U.S., Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, and the U.K. (Thanks to Lifehacker for the tip. They also mention NameVoyager, which displays the history of
Set your VCR’s and Tivo’s. From an e-mail to supporters by Steven Goldstein, Chair, Garden State Equality: On Friday, October 12th, Garden State Equality Board member Denise Brunner, her wife Fran and their kids Jessica, Scott and Alyssa—all very active members in Garden State Equality—will be the guests on The Oprah Winfrey Show, seen at
Today is National Coming Out Day. Most of us who are LGBT have stories to tell—good, bad, exciting, or boring—about our own coming out. It’s something of a relationship marker, in fact. I know I’ve reached a certain level of friendship with someone when we start telling each other our coming out tales. Being a
First penguins, then swans and flamingos—now peacocks. A headline-making British baronet, Sir Benjamin Slade, claims his pet peacock is gay, causing the bird to claw a visitor’s Lexus in a fit of passion: “It started when he fell in love with this Lexus, which was in a very distinct peacock blue and looked like another
A second guest post by Mary W. Foulk, a writer, new mom, and lesbian film critic, whose work has appeared at Lesbian Life, among other places. Last Sunday, Alyson and I attended a friend’s birthday party. Prior to the event, I found myself really anxious about going. My concern—that we would be the only gay
Tales for Teens and Those Who Have Been Julie Anne Peters’s novel Between Mom and Jo, about a boy whose moms are breaking up, won last year’s Lambda Literary Award in the Children’s/Young Adult category. In her latest work, grl2grl: short fictions (Little, Brown) she shows us her skill with a shorter form. The 10
October kicks off GLBT History Month, which is similar to GLBT Pride Month in June, but with fewer parades and more educational content.* Equality Forum, the coordinator of this intellectual celebration, has selected 31 GLBT “Icons” to feature during the month, one per day. It’s not meant to be an exclusive list, but rather to
Jan Moore and Emily Sonnessa have been fighting the Methodist Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association in New Jersey for the right to have their civil union on an Association-owned pavilion in Ocean Grove. It’s not a clear-cut case of the Methodists having the right to do what they want with private property, because the church
