Assorted recent news about LGBT families: California’s KNBC-TV refused to air an ad during the Super Bowl from GetToKnowUsFirst.org, featuring a gay family. They say the NFL Legal Department considered the ad “advocacy,” and would not let it run. During the Presidential Inauguration, California’s KABC-TV refused to run the ad for the same reason (although
Here’s a roundup of general LGBT news. I’ll do another parenting-specific roundup early next week. Happy weekend, all! LGBT-rights leaders gathered in Denver this week for the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force’s Creating Change conference. Bil and others at Bilerico have a bunch of posts up about it, including an interview with the Director
Many of you may have heard that openly lesbian Johanna Sigurdardottir was picked by Iceland’s Social Democratic Alliance Party to be the country’s next prime minister. The news gets even better, though: Johanna Sigurdardottir and her spouse Jonina Leosdottir, an author and playwright, have two adult sons (via Sigurdardottir’s previous marriage), making Sigurdardottir not only the
LGBT parenting news from here and there: The Ohio Supreme Court declined to hear the appeal of a lower court ruling that upheld the joint parenting agreement between two former partners. One partner has tried to use the state ban on same-sex marriage and “marriage substitutes” to void the agreement and deny the other woman
Earlier this week, I mentioned that KABC-TV in California had refused to air an ad featuring a gay black couple with five kids. The marriage equality group GetToKnowUsFirst.org, which produced the ad, wanted it to run during the presidential inauguration. Other channels in California aired it. The media buyer for GetToKnowUsFirst’s ad agency reported, “[KABC-TV]
Some new guy moved into this house on Pennsylvania Avenue. . . . Says he wants to improve LGBT rights, education, healthcare, women’s rights, and strengthen families, not to mention fix the economy, protect the environment, and end the war in Iraq, among other things. Hope he still has time to read his girls a
I was traveling over the past two days, so there’s no “She Got Me Pregnant” vlog this week, I’m afraid. Instead, please enjoy this series of five public-service ads featuring happy lesbian and gay families. The ads are a production of Get to Know Us First, a non-profit group sponsored by Power Up! films. The
I’ve spent Inauguration Day in transit between Boston and New York in preparation for my keynote at the Working Mother “L-Moms and Allies Breakfast,” catching most of the ceremony in the departure lounge. I wrote up my thoughts for now-President Obama a few days ago, though, so I am therefore taking today just to revel
We love us some Legos here at the Mombian household, and have played with little else since our son received a few new sets over the holidays. Still, I am humbled by the Legoland California recreation of President Obama’s Inauguration. I didn’t spot a little (B)Rick Warren, but I may go build one myself and
I wrote a letter to President-elect Obama with some thoughts about his upcoming presidency from my perspective as a lesbian mom. I can’t speak for all of us, but I hope some of my ideas find resonance. The letter also ran as my column in 365gay.com last week. I can’t crosspost it yet, but since
