A Queer-Inclusive Children’s Book Inspiring Peaceful Protest for Change
Here’s a beautiful, new, queer-inclusive children’s book that encourages taking action to create positive social change.
Scientists Create Mice With Same-Sex Genetic Parents
A team of scientists in China has succeeded in creating healthy mouse pups from a pair of female parents. Does this mean human same-sex couples are closer to being able to create children with genetic material from each parent?
New Children’s Book Is a Bilingual Love Song from One Boy to Another
Continuing my National Coming Out Day week of new picture books, coming out today is a gorgeous new bilingual children’s book in English and Spanish that honors the Mexican serenata tradition even as reframes it to include one boy creating a love song for another, with the help of his father.
New Children’s Book Explains “What’s ‘Gay’?” Download It Here!
Brian McNaught, called “the godfather of gay diversity and sensitivity training” by the New York Times, has written a children’s book explaining “What’s gay?” in a simple, engaging rhyme—and he’s kindly making it available here free to Mombian readers.
Girl Learns to Understand Her Transgender Brother in New Picture Book
National Coming Out Day is this week, and I’m celebrating with reviews of several new LGBTQ-inclusive children’s books that are coming out! The first—part of a partnership to increase LGBTQ-inclusive children’s books—is about a girl learning to understand her transgender sibling.
A Queer-Inclusive Kids’ Book for Indigenous Peoples’ Day (or Any Day)
It’s Indigenous Peoples’ Day today, so I want to highlight the one queer-inclusive children’s book I know of that centers on an indigenous family—while also celebrating the many types of families in our world today.
Hawaii Supreme Court Affirms Nonbiological Mother is a Parent
Could you use some good news today out of our courts? I sure could. The Supreme Court of Hawaii on Friday upheld a lower court ruling that said a nonbiological mother is a parent to the child she and her former spouse had through assisted reproduction.
LGBTQ Advocates File Briefs in Key Adoption Discrimination Case
Numerous LGBTQ advocacy and youth organizations have just filed “friend of the court” briefs in the first appeals court case that will decide whether taxpayer-funded child service agencies may cite their religious beliefs to discriminate against prospective foster parents and youth in care.
LGBTQ Parenting Roundup
Here’s what’s happening that I haven’t covered in depth elsewhere. Pull up a cup of coffee, tea, or other beverage and read on!
A Short History of LGBTQ Parenting
It’s LGBTQ History Month, so here’s a revised and expanded version of a piece I wrote last year on the history of LGBTQ parenting in the U.S.