LGBTQ Parenting Roundup
Catch up on a variety of stories and news about LGBTQ parents that I haven’t covered separately, from family stories to politics, entertainment, sports, and more!
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How the Early 90s Shaped Queer Families
My spouse Helen and I recently celebrated our 33rd anniversary, which got me thinking about the early 1990s when we first met. Take a walk back with me through a few significant early 90s moments and milestones for queer families.
15 LGBTQ-Inclusive Kids’ Books Featuring People With HIV or AIDS
The first picture book featuring someone with HIV or AIDS came out in 1989. It was followed by many other picture and middle grade books in the decades since, including these LGBTQ-inclusive titles. On World AIDS Day and beyond, may they offer insight into both history and a disease still with us.
“Fairyland”: A True Queer Family Story of the 70s and 80s Comes to the Big Screen
Fairyland, Alysia Abbott’s 2014 memoir about growing up with a single gay dad in San Francisco during the bohemian 1970s and the AIDS crisis of the 1980s, is coming to theaters as a feature film with a stellar cast. Learn more and watch a trailer here.
World AIDS Day 2024: Parents and Children
Today is World AIDS Day, a time to remember that HIV/AIDS continues to shatter lives, families, and communities, even as other pandemics take hold. Since this is a parenting blog, I’m once again sharing how HIV/AIDS has impacted children and parents around the world.
12 LGBTQ-Inclusive Kids’ Books About AIDS and People With HIV or AIDS
For World AIDS Day and any time, here’s a roundup of LGBTQ-inclusive picture and middle grade books about AIDS and people living with HIV or AIDS. HIV and AIDS are not LGBTQ-specific, of course, but have hit our community hard, and LGBTQ-inclusive books are my focus. May these books offer insight into our history and a disease still with us.
“World Made of Glass” Is Heartbreaking and Hopeful
The first must-read, LGBTQ-inclusive middle grade novel of 2023 is set in 1987 at the height of the AIDS epidemic in the U.S., and centers on a girl whose father is dying from complications of AIDS.
4 LGBTQ-Inclusive Kids’ Books About AIDS
The first picture book about a person with AIDS came out in 1989, at the height of the AIDS crisis in the U.S. Here’s more about it (can you guess the better-known title it beat for the Lambda Literary Award?) as well as several kids’ books about AIDS from the past two years.
World AIDS Day 2022: Parents and Children
Today is World AIDS Day, a time to remember that HIV/AIDS continues to shatter lives, families, and communities, even as other pandemics take hold. Since this is a parenting blog, I’m once again sharing how HIV/AIDS has impacted children and parents around the world.
World AIDS Day 2021: Parents and Children
Today is World AIDS Day, a time to remember that even as another pandemic is in the headlines, HIV/AIDS continues to shatter lives, families, and communities around the world. I’m therefore once again sharing some information about children and parents with HIV/AIDS.