Two great online shows for your viewing pleasure today: Family Pride has compiled a slide show of family photos submitted in response to their e-newsletter request. It’s inspiring viewing. If you’d like to add your own family photo, send it to them by e-mail. Courtesy of Gay Rights Watch comes a video produced for Let […]
(Originally published in Bay Windows, Family Week Supplement, July 26, 2007.) R Family Vacations, profiled in the HBO documentary All Aboard: Rosie’s Family Cruise, caught some flak (but also some praise) earlier this year when they removed Bermuda from their July cruise. A group of protesters had threatened to meet the ship, and R Family
Back after a short summer break, this week’s Family Voices interview is with California dads David and Clay. Below, they talk about the importance of dinnertime, storytime, and time off, and share a bit of parenting haiku. As with the previous families highlighted in this feature, they are members of the Family Pride Coalition’s OUTSpoken
The U.S. military has discharged 60 Arabic language translators for being gay. It is no surprise, therefore, that they are now turning to technology to make up the deficit and evaluating “prototype, real-time, two-way translation systems.” That’s a computer to you and me. And the father of modern computer science is widely regarded to be
“Capitol Hill sources” say the Matthew Shepard Act, an LGBT-inclusive hate crimes bill, will remain stalled in the Senate until at least September. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi indicated, however, that she expects the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) to come to the House floor for a vote in September. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) reminded
Lesbian non-bio mom Keri Jones announced she will not appeal a February Utah Supreme Court ruling that said planning and raising a child with her (now ex) partner (and obtaining a court order designating both of them as co-guardians) was not enough to give her visitation rights. Jones says she fears a federal court would
Two articles caught my eye today, on two different issues. I was going to write about them separately, but then realized they in fact relate to the same matter—our identities as both LGBT individuals and parents. The first is an article in the Huffington Post by Evan Wolfson, head of Freedom to Marry. Wolfson says
More than half the babies in the U.S. born outside of marriage are born to women who nonetheless live with the child’s father, according to two new studies. This supports similar findings from the Pew Research Center, as I discussed a few weeks ago, that the number of those who do not marry, with or
Same-sex couples residing in New Mexico may now legally marry in Massachusetts. The Massachusetts Department of Public Health and Registry of Vital Records and Statistics last Thursday issued “a corrective notice to all Massachusetts city and town clerks authorizing them to allow same-sex couples from New Mexico to apply for marriage licenses,” according to Gay
If you’re heading to Provincetown this weekend for Family Week, I hope you’ll stop by my Blogging Workshop, Sunday at 2:00 p.m. in the the Family Pride tent on MacMillan Pier. If you’re already blogging, please join us and share your experiences, pick up some new tips, or just say hi. If you’re not already
