Go librarians. The American Library Association (ALA) this week announced it will add an annual award for “English-language works for children and teens of exceptional merit relating to the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered experience.”
November is National Adoption Month, so I’ll be posting a bunch of adoption-related resources over the next few weeks. I’ll start with the HRC National Adoption Month page, which has links to information for both prospective parents and child welfare professionals, along with news and event listings. And because a Florida circuit court recently overturned
If you haven’t yet voted today, get out and do it. Control of Congress hangs in the balance (along with many and sundry local issues). Bring the kid(s) and make it a lesson in citizenship. (If they’re too young for that, bring them anyway. The seniors who staff the voting booths will coo over them
Children’s musicians Erin Lee Kelly and Marci Applebaum have been kind enough to do a monthly guest post about children’s music for a few years now. (It all started when I heard them perform their song “Fine By Me” on an R Family cruise: “My family doesn’t look like the families do in picture books/And
First: You’re all voting next Tuesday, right? No, no candidate is perfect. Sometimes we need to choose the better of two (or more) evils. I think it’s still important to make that choice, though. President Obama met with five progressive bloggers, who grilled him on marriage equality and Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. Joe Sudbay, who
No, it’s not Halloween quite yet, but I thought it would be fun for us to share some holiday cheer. Leave a comment with something related to Halloween—your kids’ (or your) costume choices, favorite costume from the past, favorite candy (dark chocolate Hershey’s Miniatures, me), favorite holiday recipe or craft, etc. I haven’t tried them
Entertainment The Chicago Tribune profiles Laura Ricketts, co-owner of the Chicago Cubs and a lesbian mom—in fact, “the only openly lesbian owner of a major U.S. men’s professional sports team.” STLToday.com discusses The Talk, Sara Gilbert’s new mom-focused show on CBS. (Anyone catch it yet? What do you think?) Ilene Chaiken talks with After Ellen
Yesterday’s Boston Globe published a great article by Drake Bennett titled “Johnny has two mommies — and four dads,” asking, “As complex families proliferate, the law considers: Can a child have more than two parents?” Good question, and one I’ve written about a few times before. In particular, Bennett looks at lesbian couples who want
Ask? Tell? Oh, I don’t know. Injunctions were flying everywhere, Dan Choi tried to reenlist, and the latest seems to be that the 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals has stopped the enforcement of the district court order that the military stop enforcing DADT. Sorting out the double negatives: DADT is still on. The November
Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum announced today that he would not appeal a ruling that last month struck down the state’s ban on adoption by gay men and lesbians. I’ll have more details in another piece; for the moment I’ll refer you back to the news piece I did for Keen News Service a couple
