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Welcome, Visitors from the New York Times Site!

If you’re visiting here for the first time, welcome! I was surprised and delighted to see a reference to Mombian today in a New York Times article about Mary Bonauto, the intrepid lawyer who led the fight for marriage equality here in my home state of Massachusetts. I know traffic is up because of it, so I want to extend a special greeting to new visitors. Here’s a little more about the site and an invitation to the yearly blogging event here in June.

LGBT Parenting Roundup

Opinion The New York Times asks “Who’s on the Family Tree?” and answers, “Now It’s Complicated,” in an article notable for including both same-sex couples and non-traditional opposite-sex couples. Joan Oliver Emmer, a straight ally in New Jersey, offers her opinion on “Why marriage equality is good for my kids…and yours.” Janice D’Arcy of the

More Same-Sex Couples Adopting, Says New York Times

Nineteen percent of same-sex couples raising children had an adopted child in the house in 2009, reported the New York Times yesterday. That’s up from eight percent in 2000. The article also looks at the struggles same-sex couples have to start families in the many states where they cannot jointly adopt. I covered a lot

Parents Increasingly Accepting of Children’s Gender Variance, Says NYT

The New York Times ran a must-read article yesterday on gender variance in children, “Boys Will Be Boys? Not in These Families.” Parents, says author Jan Hoffman, are increasingly accepting of gender nonconforming behavior in their children. “Rather than looking away,” she writes, “they are trying to understand their toddler’s unconventional gender behavior, in order

New York Times’ “Coming Out” Youth Project

If you have not yet seen the New York Times’ excellent Coming Out project, which showcases the voices, words, and pictures of a diverse group of LGBTQ youth, get thee to their site and browse through it. There’s also a good introductory article here. Their stories are touching, sometimes heart-wrenching, but always inspiring. (Stories can

Legal and Financial Hurdles for Same-Sex Parents

The New York Times has an article today on “The Extra Hoops Gay Parents Must Jump Through” in terms of legal and financial protections. Three experts, a lawyer, a financial planner and an accountant (which sounds like the start of a joke, but it’s not), offer their advice to a lesbian couple in Michigan with two children.

Lesbian and Gay Parents More Common in the South than Elsewhere

If you read one piece today about LGBT parenting, make it this excellent New York Times piece about our demographics, which informs us “Child rearing among same-sex couples is more common in the South than in any other region of the country.”

Now I Know Who All These People Running Around My House Are

A family includes same-sex couples with children, as well as married gay and lesbian couples. That’s the belief of “a majority of Americans” who now include the above in their definition of family, according to a study by Brian Powell, a sociology professor at Indiana University, Bloomington. The New York Times has a piece this

“Children Speak for Same-Sex Marriage”: New York Times

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

NYT’s LGBT Family Blowout

The New York Times is chock full o’ LGBT family goodness this weekend: Lisa Belkin’s “What’s Good for the Kids” looks at recent research showing that children of lesbian and gay parents tend to be more tolerant and less bound by gender stereotypes and assumptions. She relies heavily on a new book by Abbie Goldberg,

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