It’s that time again! Here are some of my best tips for LGBTQ parents with kids in school; LGBTQ-inclusive, school-related book recommendations; and my updated annual resource list about creating welcoming schools, developing inclusive curricula, supporting LGBTQ youth in sports, countering book bans, and more.
If you read only one book on how to parent, make it S. Bear Bergman’s brilliant new Special Topics in Being a Parent: A Queer and Tender Guide to Things I’ve Learned About Parenting, Mostly the Hard Way. It will be a rare person of any identity who doesn’t gain something useful from the wise, judgment-free, gently humorous, and delightfully illustrated volume.
Brian Rosenberg is on a very personal mission to help LGBTQ+ people build their families. When he was in his 20s and 30s, he said in an interview, “Gay men were not thinking about becoming parents because everyone who would have done it was dying, and many of us, like myself, have HIV, and so we weren’t planning for it.”
Backed by the authority of the venerable Mayo Clinic, two new guides on fertility and pregnancy are more LGBTQ inclusive than ever. Should LGBTQ prospective and new parents add them to their collections? Here are my reviews.
Queer parents and prospective parents can sometimes have a hard time finding support and community. Marea Goodman, a licensed midwife and queer parent, is hoping to make that easier with PregnantTogether, a growing virtual community for queer and solo parents and parents-to-be.
Here’s to the dads, to all who fill that role, and to all who claim today as their own. Let’s celebrate with a roundup of recent picture, middle-grade, and grown-up books featuring queer dads!
Father’s Day is this Sunday—a holiday that might seem to exclude families with two moms. The reality is a little more complex.
Today is the 19th Annual LGBTQ Families Day, a time to celebrate the many families with LGBTQ people in them! I invite you to post a family photo/video or some words of support on any social media channel, with the hashtag #LGBTQFamiliesDay. Let’s show our collective strength as a community of LGBTQ people, our children, our parents, and our allies.
Whether you call yourself Mom, Mama, Mommy, Maman, Mamá, Mami, Momo, Momily, MaPa, Baba, Maddy, or any other parental name, if you want to rejoice in your parental identity today (even more than you do any other day), go for it!
One of the most frequent questions I’ve heard from prospective LGBTQ parents is “What should our kids call us?” Here are just a few of the 400+ real-life names—and the stories behind them—that people have shared with the Mombian LGBTQ Parental Names Project since it began in 2011. Have a read and add your own!
