Gay families are “traditionalizing” gay culture and reducing its explicit sexuality, said Dale Carpenter in last week’s Bay Area Reporter. His main example is San Francisco’s Castro District, an area known for its sexually explicit, BDSM-tinged gay-male culture. It’s no wonder families provide a stark contrast, or that they wish to make changes there. There’s […]
Four signs you’re a mom taking a cruise without your preschooler: You sing “Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes” while applying sunscreen. You want to bring home the towel-origami elephant the steward left in your room. You use a photo of your child as a bookmark for your beach reading, and look at it yourself even
Sometimes the reminders of invisibility leap up in unexpected places. My partner and I were dyeing Easter eggs the other day. We’d bought a kit with dye tablets, stickers, and shrink-on decorated wrappers. Yes, regular food coloring works, too, but we thought our two-year-old son would have fun putting stickers on the eggs. I pulled
In a landmark case in the UK, a Court of Appeal has ruled that a non-bio mom should be considered the “natural parent” of her former partner’s children and given custody, after the bio mom broke a shared-custody order and moved away. The head of the appeal panel, Lord Justice Thorpe, said that “in the
My partner and I recently celebrated our thirteenth year together. Did we honor the occasion with a wild display of lesbian hedonism, an example of our depraved homosexual lifestyle? ‘Fraid not. We spent it at IKEA, picking up some bookshelves for my parents. That evening, we assembled it and stayed at their house with our
It’s almost the end of Women’s History Month, so I thought I’d post a couple of links to sites of lesbian history resources. (Herstory, history . . . I used the former in the title for this post, since that seems to be the commonly accepted way of refering to the lesbian past, though I
A few weeks ago, a publicist for Peggy Drexler’s new book, Raising Boys Without Men: How Maverick Moms Are Creating the Next Generation of Exceptional Men, contacted me and asked if I’d review it on Mombian. The book, a study of lesbian moms and single moms raising sons, seemed relevant, so I agreed.
It’s International Women’s Day, and the theme is “Women in Decision-Making.” The UN Web site has more information on the holiday, including a short history (it was first observed in 1909), a message from the secretary-general, and links to other sites and resources on the status of women around the world. As this article points
March Is Women’s History Month. and the National Women’s History Project has declared this year’s theme to be “Women: Builders of Communities and Dreams.” They offer a number of suggestions for how to involve your community in the celebration: schools, newspapers, places of worship, and others. If you simply want to learn more about women
New research from UCLA indicates that the mothers of multiple gay sons tend to process X chromasomes differently from other mothers. This provides further evidence that sexual orientation is genetically determined. The results aren’t conclusive at this point, and other researchers caution that further study, with a larger sample, is needed, but it’s still an
