The good thing about Valentine’s Day, which can at times seem like nothing more than a chocolate-fueled celebration of heterosexuality, is that the ubiquitous Sweethearts Conversation Hearts are at least pretty inclusive. Oh, you have to throw out some gender-specific ones that don’t apply, but you can always give the “Lover Boy” ones to your […]
In this season of primaries and The L Word, I can’t help reprising and revising a post from last year: What if the characters on the show ran the U.S. government? We might get something like this:
For my second contribution to Robin Reagler’s blog carnival, here’s Some/thing New: Israel announced Sunday that same-sex couples will now have the same adoption rights as opposite-sex couples. Previously, they could only adopt if one partner was the child’s biological parent. Mazal tov!
(Originally published as the Mombian newspaper column, week of February 4, 2008.) How can LGBT parents create change? I’ve been pondering the question in light of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force’s annual Creating Change conference in Detroit this week. Becoming a parent is itself a life-altering change. We must then master the fine
Robin Reagler of The Other Mother has come up with a clever blog carnival idea. For the rest of the week, post a photo, memory, poem, music, or a combination on the following theme: Tuesday, 2/12: Something old Wednesday, 2/13: Something new Thursday, 2/14: Something borrowed Friday, 2/15: Something blue Further details at her site.
It’s Freedom to Marry Week, and I thought I’d mark the occasion by talking about why marriage matters to me. Legal protections are part of the story, but only part. Civil unions and domestic partnerships can cover some (but not all) of the same rights and responsibilities. The greater reason for marriage, in my mind,
Bruce Kluger of USA Today asks “In Election ’08, is there a place for gay rights?” He calls gay marriage “a non-issue” in the 2008 elections (which I think is overstating things a little), but makes a hopeful call for gay issues to be part of a national conversation. He is heartened by the “Don’t
I didn’t think the New York Post could outdo its headline “Evil Lesbian Mom Left Toddler to Die Slow Death.” Today’s “Axis of She-vil: Death to Gays but Free Ops for Irani Trannies” may be the winner in reprehensible journalism, however. The article points out the oddity of the Iranian government subsidzing sex reassignment surgeries
February is getting busy. In addition to being Black History Month and primary season, it is also National Diversity Book Month, as declared by the Family Equality Council. They have a page full of resources on LGBT-inclusive children’s books, including an extensive book list. The list isn’t perfect; it only lists three books from Todd
