It’s National Poetry Month. (Thanks, Robin!) I wanted, therefore, to share part of a poem by Adrienne Rich that captures a little of my philosophy about blogging: North American Time I When my dreams showed signs of becoming politically correct no unruly images escaping beyond border when walking in the street I found my themes […]
Comedian Roseanne Barr said yesterday that: Never once in my 54 years have I ever once heard a gay or lesbian person who’s politically active say one thing about anything that was not about them. They don’t care about minimum wage, they don’t care about any other group other than their own self because you
Sometimes the best news is no news. The party of LGBT families attending the White House Egg Roll yesterday showed up, rolled eggs, took photos, and went home. No one protested their attendance. The Politico has an interview with Jennifer Chrisler, Executive Director of Family Pride, in which she says the lack of protest is
I’m very pleased to bring you a guest post today from Abigail Garner, a writer, speaker, and educator who has long been an advocate for LGBT families and the LGBT community as a whole.
The diligent women at After Ellen have pointed out that today is the birthday of actor and lesbian mom Cynthia Nixon. She’s one of the women on my Most Powerful Lesbian Moms in America list, so I wanted to acknowledge the joyous occasion with a virtual cake. (Don’t worry, I’ll spare you the .wav file
Today is the last day of the three-day Blog Against Theocracy event, for which we are asked to post about the separation of church and state. As a sometime graduate student in medieval history, I know me some theocracy. I also know that what worked in Western Europe 800 years ago might not be the
Some good news for the holiday weekend: A Vermont court has given non-bio mom Janet Miller-Jenkins the right to visit her five-year-old daughter Isabella, whom she hasn’t been able to see or contact in over two years. Her former partner, Lisa Miller-Jenkins, kept their daughter from her in a headline case that bounced between the
[Update: Joan Conde at Mamacita has pointed out that this award is in all likelihood a scam to encourage links to the Mother’s Day Central site for purely commercial purposes. I’m not against making a buck, but Mother’s Day Central seems to be employing duplicitous means to do so. The lack of contact information on
Presidential candidate and Connecticut Senator Chris Dodd told students in New Hampshire that people debating gay marriage should ask themselves what they would do if their child was gay. He added that if his daughters were lesbians he would want them to have “marriage-like rights” through civil unions. He stopped short of supporting same-sex marriage,
[I’ve updated this post based on reader comments. Thanks to all, and keep the ideas coming. It’s good to see so many lesbian moms who have achieved such success—though I’ll quickly add that this is a personal choice. It’s just as acceptable to choose to stay home with one’s children, or forgo career advancement for
