LGBTQ Parenting Roundup
The parenting news keeps coming! Here are some stories I haven’t covered separately. This edition is full of international news (and a few U.S. items), so read on and catch up with what’s happening around the world.
5 New Books for LGBTQ Families
This week’s haul of new LGBTQ family books includes some truly great reads for both grown-ups and kids, including a biography of the queer woman who transformed children’s literature; a book for Christian families looking to support their trans and nonbinary kids (or those wondering why they should); a baking book by a chef-illustrator pair whose names you may know separately; and more.
Dinosaurs, Discrimination, and Tackling Tough Topics With Our Children
This ran in my newspaper column in 2007 but I somehow never posted it here. I think it’s still relevant as we LGBTQ parents and our children navigate issues of difference and bias.
Pennsylvania Supreme Court Raises Bar for Granting Co-Parent Adoptions to Unmarried Couples
Marriage equality has helped LGBTQ parents and our children in many ways—but should we have to marry? A decision by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court will now make it much more difficult for both same- and different-sex couples to obtain co-parent (sometimes called second-parent) adoptions unless they are married.
Deadline Approaching for Helpusadopt.org Adoption Grant Applications
Helpusadopt.org, a national 501(c)(3) adoption grant program, will be accepting applications for its next cycle of adoption grants until October 7, with the grants awarded in November.
9/11: Of Remembrance and Hope
Only a chance change of job kept me from being at the World Trade Center site on September 11, 2001. Shortly afterward, my spouse and I began to talk seriously about having a child.
30 Kids’ Books With LGBTQ Grandparents or Grandparents Supporting an LGBTQ Grandchild
To celebrate Grandparents Day, here are 15 books featuring LGBTQ grandparents—plus another 15 showing grandparents supporting their LGBTQ grandchildren! They make grand reading today or any time of year.
6 LGBTQ Kids’ Books Featuring Librarians
It’s back-to-school time and International Literacy Day, so let’s celebrate some of the heroes of literacy in school and community: librarians! Here are six kids’ books featuring queer librarians, librarians helping queer kids, and librarians in drag!
“Paw Patrol” Universe Gets Its First LGBTQ Character, a Nonbinary Skateboarder
Rubble & Crew, a spin-off of Nickelodeon’s smash-hit kids’ show Paw Patrol, has dropped an episode with the franchise’s first nonbinary character (and first confirmed LGBTQ character overall), written by Lindz Amer of Queer Kid Stuff.
Recommended Book Pairs to Double Your LGBTQ Reading Fun!
If one LGBTQ-inclusive book is good, two are better! Here are some pairs of middle-grade books with common themes—if you like one, you (or the young readers in your life) might like the other, too!