Tony and Emmy Award-winning actor Billy Porter (Kinky Boots, Pose) will appear in the next season of Sesame Street with Elmo and his friends, wearing the black tuxedo dress that he wore to the Academy Awards last year.
The South Dakota House yesterday passed a bill that would ban transgender youth and their parents from making decisions regarding their medical care. Doctors who prescribe treatment related to gender affirmation could face jail time.
Move over, queer penguins—the queer zebras are in town! Season 2 of Netflix’s animated series for preschoolers, Chip and Potato, has introduced a two-dad family to its cute anthropomorphic world. (And did you catch the all-gender restrooms at the show’s school in Season 1? Read on for details and images.)
The American Library Association (ALA) today announced its 2020 Stonewall Book Awards for LGBTQ-inclusive children’s and young adult books, part of the Youth Media Awards that also include the prestigious Newbery and Caldecott Medals. Several other Youth Media Awards also went to LGBTQ-inclusive titles.
It was fetal ultrasound day for Shane and Quiara on the most recent The L Word: Generation Q. Let’s see what happened.
Netflix’s new animated series, Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts, just might be the most adorable post-apocalyptic story you’ve ever seen. The protagonist is a chatty and energetic 13-year-old girl—and her best friend is gay.
It’s hard to believe that nearly five years after federal marriage equality, we’re still seeing courts having to determine if same-sex married parents may both be on their children’s birth certificates. At least this recent decision in Indiana was a positive one.
Once again, for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, I’m posting a revised list of resources for talking with kids about the holiday and about race and racism in general all year ’round. Here are some sites and articles I’ve found thought provoking, from a variety of perspectives.
Yes, it’s fiction—but this past week’s The L Word: Generation Q resonated with me as Bette and Tina’s daughter Angie took her driver’s test, something my own 16-year-old son will be doing soon. They weren’t the only characters involved with things parental, though. Let’s see who else was thinking about kids.
The Show Me State could become the “Don’t Show Me” state, as a proposed Missouri bill would fine or even jail librarians who lend books to children that a local five-person “parental library review board” thinks are inappropriate. And yes, books that discuss or represent “sexuality” are among the categories that may be deemed inappropriate.
