Riley Hackford-Peer is a 12-year-old living with his two moms and his younger brother in Utah. He gave a speech at a rally in Salt Lake City Friday, telling the crowd that watching his moms marrying in Utah “felt like fireworks bursting in my heart.”
Attorney Roberta Kaplan, who argued before the U.S. Supreme Court in the case that led to the downfall of part of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), has received several recent accolades for her work. She says her most important job, however, is “raising my son.”
I’m a sometimes-disgruntled Windows user with an iPad and an Android phone . . . but I applaud Microsoft for including DOMA challenger Edie Windsor (as well as out lesbian super-swimmer Diana Nyad) in its video “Celebrating the Heroic Women of 2013.” Watch below.
Here are some of the LGBT parent happenings over the past few weeks while we’ve been celebrating the holidays.
This past year has been full of events—positive and negative — that have impacted the struggle for equality of LGBT parents and our children. Here are some highlights.
The LGBT news from around the world keeps getting worse. The Ugandan Parliament today passed a bill that criminalizes the “promotion” of “homosexuality” and can lead to life imprisonment for those convicted of “aggravated homosexuality.” Several other countries have had similar recent news.
This just in: A federal district court judge has ruled that it is unconstitutional for Utah to prevent same-sex couples from marrying.
New Mexico makes 17! Yesterday, the state Supreme Court ruled unanimously in favor of marriage equality, making 17 states, plus the District of Columbia, that allow same-sex couples to wed — eight states in 2013 alone. All of the plaintiff couples in the case are parents. But in our celebrations of the Land of Enchantment, we should take a moment to remember one mom who was fighting for marriage there while she was fighting for her life.
A Catholic educators’ group responsible for developing Catholic school curricula based on the Common Core State Standards has removed three books from its first-grade plan because they include same-sex and/or divorced parents.
This holiday season, GLAAD is organizing a campaign to help both LGBT families and allies send a copy of their family’s holiday card to the governors of anti-equality states, with a note saying that all families should be treated equally. It’s a great idea that could have a big impact.
