As for the “long-time partners” statement, I can’t begin to say how this urks me! It’s so true how we have to prove our length of our commitment to sort of validate the relationship in ‘straight people speech’. Every time I try and introduce my partner to a new situation and new people, I always say how we’ve been together for a long time……ugh.

My sister just showed me her most recent issue of Real Simple magazine which features two women both pregnant. Not the Iron Chef gal, though (don’t think). I couldn’t scare up a link online, and my sis still is reading her copy.

Even though dual prengancies seem far less common among our kinds of parents (than their appearance in the media might indicate), potentially even kind of a quirky spectacle in the eyes of others, it certainly provides a way into media coverage of our families which, once the reader is there, can be a good thing.

Back in grad school I did a study of tabloid coverage of celebrity “outings” which were all the rage in the early 1990s. Many began sensationalist, but ended with a more nuanced, often even pro-gay “normalcy” kind of tone.