E. Denise Simmons received a lot of press coverage last week when she took office in Cambridge, Massachusetts as the nation’s first openly lesbian, African-American mayor. What wasn’t revealed in the first round of press coverage was that she is also the mother of four and the grandmother of three. The Boston EDGE just published […]
New York City Comptroller William C. Thompson, Jr. and the New York City Pension Funds today called on two dozen major corporations, including ExxonMobil, to bar discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. The Comptroller’s office says this is nearly twice as many proposals as in the previous proxy season, and the second season
As a counterpoint to my piece on the children of LGBT servicemembers, have a read of Deb Price’s piece on the parents of LGBT servicemembers. She rightly says “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell doesn’t just hurt gay men and women in uniform. Congress needs to hear first-hand about the pain it causes their moms and dads.”
A bevy of parenting-related articles, collected for your reading pleasure: Miss Washington, Elyse Umemoto, one of the contenders for the Miss America title, stated on a pre-pageant reality show that she supports same-sex marriage because “she has both a mother and a stepfather . . . and a father and a stepfather,” as After Elton
I haven’t been covering the blow-by-blow of the presidential campaigns, but others have. Lisa Keen, in the Bay Area Reporter, has a good summary of the leading candidates’ positions on various LGBT issues and the endorsements they’ve gained. The AP looks at the frustration among many LGBT activists about the lukewarm support for LGBT rights
Not that I expect fine journalism from the New York Post, but this goes beyond acceptability: “EVIL LESBIAN MOM LEFT TODDLER TO DIE SLOW DEATH: DA” blares the headline. The story is a tragic one, of child abuse and neglect. A New York mother is accused of abandoning her 23-month-old son to death after he
Stars and Stripes, the daily newspaper for the U.S. military community overseas, has a fascinating article on the establishment of a Gay-Straight Alliance club at Robert D. Edgren High School, situated at Misawa Air Base in Japan and part of the Department of Defense Dependents Schools-Pacific. Despite some controversy and an investigation of the Department
This week, Helen and I use Tasha’s storyline on The L Word as an excuse to share the story of an actual LGBT officer raising children with her partner, and to explore the impact of the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy on the children of LGBT servicemembers. (Read the full story in my original
(Originally published in Bay Windows, January 22, 2008). Dr. Blase Masini wants to spend time with your family—or at least with data about you. The developmental psychologist and head of the research department at Howard Brown Health Center, a leading LGBT health care organization in Chicago, has launched a nationwide study of LGBT parenting, and
Same-sex marriage is cool. Al Gore says so. Of course, this pretty conclusively proves he’s not running for president. More’s the pity.
