A gentle reminder that it’s now less than a week until Blogging for LGBT Families Day. Full details are here; the short version is: blog in support of LGBT families on or before June 2, and send me the link. I’m already starting to see some posts trickle in; I’ll start posting the links on […]
(Originally published in Bay Windows, May 22, 2008.) Photo (L to R): Jarrett Barrios, David Trueblood, Rick Wellisch, Polly Crozier, Kelly Lawrence. “You cannot figure out being a parent by yourself,” asserted David Trueblood, a gay dad and director of public relations for the Boston Foundation. He was speaking at the Cambridge Center for Adult
(Reposting this in honor of Memorial Day. Originally published in Bay Windows, January 10, 2008) Five-year-old William and three-year-old Ryan are the children of decorated U.S. Army officer Cheryl Parker. Like other children of service members, they have dealt with cross-country moves and months without their mother while she was deployed in Iraq. Unlike the
Just in time for Memorial Day, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a district court decision in the case of an Air Force major discharged for being a lesbian. It ruled “the government may only ‘intrude upon the personal and private lives of homosexuals’ to ‘advance an important governmental interest,’ such as maintaining troop
(Oh, the search engines are going to have fun with this post. . . .) Passing along this information; I’m not associated with the project, but I thought it might be of interest to some: An invitation from Felice Newman, author of The Whole Lesbian Sex Book: Lesbian, Bisexual & Queer Women Couples: Have you
Helen and I don tie-dye this week to celebrate the California marriage ruling. We then share various ways to include children in weddings or commitment ceremonies. With many same-sex couples having ceremonies after they have kids, it’s important to help young ones understand what the occasion is about, and make them feel a part of
Deborah Solomon recently interviewed actor and lesbian mom Cynthia Nixon in the New York Times Magazine. Jessica at Feministing, however, notes the general cluelessness of the questions. The interview starts out all right: A few years ago, you moved in with a woman, after leaving the father of your children. Do you find it easier
Tango had two dads. Now, an unnamed Little Blue Penguin at the New England Aquarium has two moms. Okay, that’s a bit misleading to readers of this blog. I had the same misconception, though, when I read the headline “Penguin ‘mothers’ make daily care a labor of love” in today’s Boston Globe. The article explains:
MP’s in the U.K. today defeated a proposed addition to the Government’s Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill that would have required fertility clinics to consider a child’s “need for a father” before providing services to lesbians and single women. Clinics are required to consider the “welfare of the [potential] child”, but the new bill says
