It’s Blogging for LGBT Families Day! Below is the master list of contributed posts, which I have kept updated throughout the day (and into the night). [Last update: 08:00 a.m. ET, 6/4: I'm still accepting posts to accommodate time zones, family emergencies, and simple forgetfulness. Make sure to check the list for new additions you haven't read!]
To submit a post, complete the form at the end of this post. Older posts are welcome, too. If you don’t have a blog of your own (but only then), leave your contribution in a comment.
Please allow some time between submitting a post and its appearance in the list below. I will be updating the list as fast as possible, but new posts may not appear immediately.
You can also tweet in support of LGBT families and use the hashtag #lgbtfamilies. Your tweets will then appear in the list over in the sidebar. (You can follow the hashtag using your favorite Twitter software, too.)
Please encourage all your friends, LGBT and not, to participate! Thanks to the Family Equality Council for co-sponsoring this year’s event.
Your contributed posts, in chronological order, are below.
- PoemFish Being the ‘Other Mother’ (but not what you think)
- Keshet Orthodox Parents, United by Love of Torah… and Our LGBT Children
- Keshet Counting the Omer…Counting my Blessings
- Keshet Love Our Families
- Dad Loves Daddy The Hate I Dread
- Rainbow Family News Mom and Me
- MomsRising.org Equity for LGBTQ Families a Moral Imperative
- Just Another Mommy Blog Please Leave God out of It
- Designer Daddy My Two Daddies (Can Beat Up Your One) – The Single
- Counting Chickens Just Like You
- Lesbian Family Marriage Equality: the “Tri” in our Kids’ Trifecta
- Two-and-a-Half-Women.tumblr.com It Gets Better, But It Also Gets Old
- BeanandLarkspur 17 years
- Pittsburgh Lesbian Correspondents Blogging Because We Are Family
- Gay & Lesbian Community Center of Pittsburgh Blogging for LGBTQ Families in Pittsburgh
- Doorknobs That Lock Two moms, one son, and Boy Scouts
- First Time Second Time Out as trans and back at the blog
- Two Mommies Ask Mommies
- Little Monster and Mommies SPD through his eyes
- MomsRising.org A Love Letter to LGBTQ Families from NC
- Peaches & Coconuts Pride Abounds in North Jersey
- Are You the Babysitter? Hardly Gay Today
- Outrunning The Storm Just Your Average Moms Next Door
- Bread and Roses Year of the Gayby
- Love Invents Us Yes, I Did Say Wife: Life as the Token Lesbian Mom
- @Vermont Blogging for LBGT Families Day 2013: Another Big Year
- Mouths of Babes Mother’s Day…the lesbian way
- Caviar and Quarters When is the right time to have kids?
- Living Hypothetically On Marrying
- Comingoutatmidlife.com Of Sea Changes and Skim Milk Marriages
- Coffee, Clutter and Chaos Why my family is different than yours!
- Adventurous Moms 2013 Blogging for LGBT Families Day: Getting Creative
- ELIXHER Our Family: Ira and Malika Hardy
- Labels are for Jars Blogging for LGBT Families: Expansive Family
- Equal Justice Under Law How to Be a Great LGBT Family
- Wise Edits “Aunt”s and Other-Mothering in a Queer Household
- Huffington Post I Get to Define My Own Family
- KarmenGarrett Why I lost it on some random conservative on Twitter yesterday
- Don’t Lick The Ferrets Blogging For LGBT Families 2013
- Add More Lesbians Blogging for LGBT Families
- Freedom to Marry Commitment Through Friendship: Leah, Natalie and Hayes in New Orleans
- 1 Dad, 1 Kid, 1 Crazy Adventure Our Adoption Story
- Viktoria Michaelis: Secrets & desires Upholding God’s Law
- 1 in Vermillion Just keep swimming
- Beginning from the Start My LGBT family
- twohotmamas Blogging for Our Family
- Always Just a Cook I’m Just a Cook…
- My Two Mums How do I define my role?
- EquallyFamily.com Real Families: Allison, Elizabeth and Marshall
- One of THOSE Moms Lily Has 2 Dads
- Making Lucky Number Seven Acceptance – LGBT Families Day
- The Philadelphia Jewish Voice Interview: Jewish Lesbian Couple Are First to Sign Civil Union in Colo
- A (un)conventional family Breaking New Ground?
- Our Simon Family Blogging for LGBT Families Day: A typical morning
- I’m Here. I’m Queer. What the Hell Do I Read? Born This Way: Real Stories Of Growing Up Gay
- Two Mountain Moms Fast Fetus!
- two moms two moms A Heavy Heart
- GLAAD Blog Blogging for #lgbtfamilies: Rev. David Eck
- Huffington Post How Bringing Equality to Boy Scouts Has Strengthened Our Family
- Super INky Blogging for LGBT Families Day: Why My Family is Special
- Jen Gennari First Daughters: A thank you to the Obamas
- Mommy Man: Adventures of a Gay Superdad What to Expect When You’re Expecting… and Gay
- GLAAD Blog Blogging for #lgbtfamilies: Cheryl Moch
- BiNet USA’s Blog My Queer Family
- KarmenGarrett Two Mamas; Two Babies
- Gnome and Fairy On Conceivability
- Bible Belt to Boulder Reflections on a Union
- BiNet USA’s Blog Blogging for LGBT Families Day: Bisexual Parenting
- GLAAD Blog Blogging for #LGBTFamilies: Cynthia Catania
- *GLAAD Blog Blogging for #LGBTFamilies: Tina Long
- Mondays with Mac Sometimes Good Things Happen to Those Who Don’t Wait
- A Day is Short Thankful: Blogging for LGBT Families Day
- GLAAD Blog Blogging for #LGBTFamilies: Annmarie Cullen
- The Family Room Showing Pride in My Family
- Amal Nahurriyeh The Same and Not-The-Same
- Raising My Rainbow My Son Is Not Blue He Is Pink
- Butlerish 11ish
- It’s a bold life My son no longer likes princesses
- Beginning from the Start Expecting this
- GLAAD Blog Blogging for #LGBTFamilies: Hannah Moch
- GLAAD Blog Blogging for #LGBTFamilies: Katy Butler
- GLAAD Blog Blogging for #LGBTFamilies: Liam Thomas Mugavin
- More than just another Mom Blog Terrible Twos
- carrielagnew making it official, aka getting legally married
- Lesbian Family What Is Yet To Come
- Musings from inside, outside, and underneath Suddenly the World Seems like such a Perfect Place
- Beccas Gender Quest Ch 23: What to do for Transition before Hormones and Surgery
- 4Real Equality Weddings 4Real Equality Families
- Freedom to Marry My Two Moms: How 12 awesome families are celebrating Mothers’ Day this year
- GLAAD Blog Because they blog *against* our families
- With an Open Heart: A humanistic approach to living Sterility
- Kathy’s Crazy Days Look how far our nation has come
- PictureBooksReview Roland Humphrey is Wearing a WHAT?
- GLAAD Blog Blogging for #lgbtfamilies: Marsha Aizumi
- Nel’s New Day Finding Family in Books
- Nel’s New Day Senators Fail to Support Same-Sex Couples
- Denver Parent Simon Says: A thoughtful post
- The Authentic Life The Perfect Couple
- carrielagnew Making it official, aka getting getting legally married
- GLAAD Blog Blogging for #LGBTFamilies Day: Brendon Bedell
- The Betty and Boo Chronicles Blogging for LGBT Families: We Are Family
- GLAAD Blog Blogging for #LGBTFamilies: Wade Davis
- A Little To The Left PRIDE
- Posy Roberts Parenting an LGBT Savvy Kid
- GLAAD Blog Blogging for #LGBTFamilies: Juan del Hierro
- Ever Moving Mama Why we’re not racing to get legally married
- The Gayby Project: Making the Next Generation of Fabulous Blogging for LGBTQ Families: Always Enough
- The Adventures of K & D random thoughts of our family
- lil Burghers Blogging For LGBT Families Day
- One Urban Nest Excerpts From a Toddler’s Reading of The Family Book
- NeverContrary Today I let anger win and that makes me sad
- Bloggity Bloo Blogging for LGBT Families – Why Tonight (Or The End Of June…) Will Be Momentous For Me.
- librarygrrrl.net My Family is Normal
- Two Moms to Be Blogging for LGBT Families Day
- JNICK’s Empower Blog Your Family… My Family… ALL Families Matter!
- Artificially Sweetened Happy Blogging for LGBT Families Day
- Lezbmommies She
- The mamas and the babas Men Take Big Bites
- More Than Words We’re Famous!
- Pink Families – Healthy, Proud, Informed Gay families: Exploring gay families around the world
- Pink Families – Healthy, Proud, Informed Two moms: Are two-mom families good enough?
- Pink Families – Healthy, Proud, Informed Resilience: What is it and how do our families get some?
- GLAAD Blog Blogging for #LGBTFamilies Day: Go! Athletes
- GLAAD Blog Blogging for #LGBTFamilies Day: Photos
- SafariDad Marriage Equality Is Not Acceptable
- Religion Optional My Family Is Just Like Yours
- Ms. Writey Pants Just Your Average Boring Bisexual Mom
- SafariDad San Francisco History — The Project
- Clovernode Chosen Family: Then and Now
- Rainbow Rumpus Coming Out in Our Families
- LesBeMums LGBT Families – A Post From an LGBT Child
- Queer Dads There is No Closet Around a 3-Year-Old
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My mother’s post:
A Pebble in the Pond
My son is the reason I became a LGBT ally. Like a pebble thrown into a smooth pond, his gender identity transition created a ripple that has altered flow of my life. (Truthfully, at the time, it was a tsunami of fear-centered emotions). I feel privileged to keep throwing pebbles into smooth ponds to cultivate understanding and advocate for change for LGBT persons, specifically transgender teens.
Here is my favorite pebble story: Two years ago when he was 18, my son had a hysterectomy at a major medical center in Washington DC. While his father and I sat in the surgery waiting room, the nursing supervisor approached us with assurance that he would receive exceptional care on her unit. Of course, we were grateful for any extra attention paid to our vulnerable son. And, then, she shared that her daughter, a college student, had started her own gender transition. She had cast another pebble by sharing her untold story with her staff during its case review meeting earlier that morning. In a single act of courage, the nursing supervisor created the ripples for transgender patients to receive the care and compassionate all deserve.
Signed
Susan T.
My mothers post:
A Pebble in the Pond
My son is the reason I became a LGBT ally. Like a pebble thrown into a smooth pond, his gender identity transition created a ripple that has altered flow of my life. (Truthfully, at the time, it was a tsunami of fear-centered emotions). I feel privileged to keep throwing pebbles into smooth ponds to cultivate understanding and advocate for change for LGBT persons, specifically transgender teens.
Here is my favorite pebble story: Two years ago when he was 18, my son had a hysterectomy at a major medical center in Washington DC. While his father and I sat in the surgery waiting room, the nursing supervisor approached us with assurance that he would receive exceptional care on her unit. Of course, we were grateful for any extra attention paid to our vulnerable son. And, then, she shared that her daughter, a college student, had started her own gender transition. She had cast another pebble by sharing her untold story with her staff during its case review meeting earlier that morning. In a single act of courage, the nursing supervisor created the ripples for transgender patients to receive the care and compassionate all deserve.
Signed
Susan T.
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