A motley assortment for our motley families: Personal Profiles The Annapolis Capital profiled lesbian moms Melanie Morris and Angela Delano on Mother’s Day. It’s a run-of-the-mill profile, as such things go—but when commenters objected to the piece, editor and publisher Tom Marquardt almost published an apology for running it. His staff convinced him not to, […]
COLAGE, the national organization for people with LGBTQ parents, has just released its award-winning short film In My Shoes for online viewing. You can view it below in its entirety. COLAGE’s description: In My Shoes follows five youth who have lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer parents who give you a chance to walk in
Although it’s been nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Picture, most critics feel The Kids Are All Right, Lisa Cholodenko’s film about two lesbian moms, their teen children, and their sperm donor, won’t take home any prizes tonight. That’s okay. Whether it wins, or even if you disliked it (as many in the lesbian
COLAGE, the national organization for people with one or more LGBTQ parents, has a great new video out chronicling the history of the organization and the first generation of COLAGEers—young people who were finding their voices and building a community of support and activism. From the video: “We had these stories that as soon as
PBS’ POV (Point of View) show is streaming three films about adoption through December 7—including Nicole Opper’s documentary Off and Running, which tells the story of Avery, an African American teen who had been adopted as an infant by two Jewish lesbians. She also has two adopted brothers, one who is black and Puerto Rican, and
I’m very excited to let you all know that Let’s Get This Straight: The Ultimate Handbook for Youth with LGBTQ Parents is hitting bookstores today. It’s a practical, inspirational, and forthright guide for pre-teens and teens with LGBTQ parents—and we parents could benefit from reading it as well. I had the pleasure of interviewing Tina
(Originally published as my Mombian newspaper column.) A long-running study of lesbian families created through donor insemination made headlines June 7 when it published new results showing that teens from these families tend to do better than their peers socially and academically. While these findings from the National Longitudinal Lesbian Family Study are positive, they
By now, you would have to have been living on another planet not to know the story of Constance McMillen, whose Mississippi high school canceled its prom after she told officials she wanted to bring her girlfriend and wear a tux. What most news channels have missed, however, is that Constance’s mother is also a
The children of same-sex parents are “helping to change the narrative of same-sex marriage to a story about families from one about couples,” says New York Times reporter Sarah Wildman. Whether minors or adults, they are playing an important role in marriage equality fights around the country. “Those of us who have lesbian, gay, bisexual
A number of leading national and regional LGBT family rights groups have launched the “From Our Family to Yours Campaign,” urging LGBT families to send holiday cards to President Obama and his family. The goal is “to introduce the First Family to thousands of LGBT families” and to “increase visibility and awareness about the need
