Comments on: Back-to-School LGBT Resource List

By: Jane and Jane Magazine, Celebrating Lesbian Living

Jane and Jane Magazine, Celebrating Lesbian Living — Sat, 09 May 2009 23:23:06 +0000

[...] For even more safe-schools materials, see my Back-to-School Resource List. [...]

By: Mombian: Sustenance for Lesbian Moms » Blog Archive » No Name-Calling Week

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 11:06:45 +0000

[...] my own list of safe-school resources, plus a post on a more recent offering from [...]

By: Mombian’s Back-To-School LGBT resource list… : PinkNews.co.uk

Mombian’s Back-To-School LGBT resource list… : PinkNews.co.uk — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 22:07:08 +0000

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By: S

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:15:16 +0000

Dana, I look forward to hearing about how your son’s transition to kindergarten went! (My apologies if you covered this in your video, but I can never get the videos to work on my computer.)

My son started middle school this year, and we got one really positive surprise. The kids were given a packet of forms such as emergency contact info, and the teacher said to bring them home and “fill them out with your Mom and Dad or your Mom and Mom.” My son’s previous school records did not have any mention of my partner (though this year’s will) so I know the Mom-and-Mom comment wasn’t directed specifically at my son. I’m eager to find out if the teacher was simply being inclusive, or if — for the first time — there’s another set of same-sex parents in my son’s class and grade!

By: Dana

Dana — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 17:20:51 +0000

Thanks, Polly! I’ve added this to Favorite Posts per your suggestion. Glad to see we’re choosing some of the same resources (but with some individual variations and commentaries)–clearly this means they’re useful to many!

By: The annual LesFam Back-to-School primer, revisited* at Lesbian Dad

The annual LesFam Back-to-School primer, revisited* at Lesbian Dad — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:43:40 +0000

[...] school teacher to know? *[Later note] Dana just published what I hope will be an annual Back-to-School LGBT Resource List over at Mombian, which includes the above external links and many many more. Also: stay tuned [...]

By: Polly

Polly — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 08:14:57 +0000

Thank you for this! Ever thorough! I just put up something on this topic (a more modest undertaking, part II in the works, with some of the selfsame links, as serendipity would have it). For part I, looked for your last year’s piece to no avail (could it have been the tugging at the arm, I wonder, of tiny but persistent hands?). So thank you for pulling together the ‘08 version!

All of these are wonderful resources. Great to have them in one fell swoop. I hereby nominate this for your Favorite Posts section!