This week in People With LGBTQ Parents Doing Cool Things: Paralympian Tatyana McFadden, the most decorated U.S. track and field athlete in history, won the Amateur Athletic Union’s Sullivan Award, given annually since 1930 to “the most outstanding athlete” at an elite level in the United States. She was also raised by two moms.
Tatyana McFadden last Saturday won her 20th Paralympic medal—8th gold—and set her 3rd world record! A new picture book biography traces her life from an orphanage in Russia, to being raised by two moms, to becoming “the fastest woman on Earth.”
A celebratory and body-positive book for young children discusses all the different parts of a human body, from hair and nose to nipples and genitals—and is marvelously inclusive of all genders and a wide range of skin tones, physical differences, and body types.
Two queer parents with disabilities recently spoke with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Radio National about their experiences. Have a listen (or read the transcript)!
Here’s a great read to start your week. Alysia Abbott writes about how raising her son, who is autistic, relates to her experience growing up with her gay dad and being part of “an outlier community” in both cases.
I read “Community Means a Lot of Things” at Outrunning the Storm and knew it had to be a Post of the Week. The author writes of trying to find a supportive community and role models for her son, who is autistic, and the parallels with her experience as a lesbian.
Cathy is a lesbian mom, a licensed social worker, and has a child on the autism spectrum. She also blogs about autism at Autism Home Rescue. She wrote to me asking if I could help connect her to other LGBT parents who have children on the autism spectrum, so consider it done. Go check out
