There are happily now many children’s books about Pride, but Robin Stevenson may be the author who has taken up the subject for the most age groups. Over the past few years, Stevenson, an award-winning author of more than 25 books in total, has published a board book, a picture book, a middle grade nonfiction book, and a young adult novel, all revolving around Pride.
A new middle-grade book, just released today, is told through a series of letters from a 10-year-old girl with two moms to her soon-to-be-born sibling, during a momentous year for both marriage equality and her favorite basketball team.
It’s two weeks until the 12th Annual Blogging for LGBTQ Families Day on June 1 — and while you’re welcome to wait until then, many of you may already be thinking about what to post. Here are 20 ideas to inspire you.
It’s a week until the 11th Annual Blogging for LGBTQ Families Day on June 1 — and while you’re welcome to wait until then, many of you may already be thinking about what to post. Here are 15 ideas to inspire you.
Sometimes there are moments that give me hope about our country. One of them was yesterday, when Attorney General Loretta Lynch announced a federal civil rights lawsuit against North Carolina’s HB 2 “bathroom bill.”
“It’s not marriage equality until same-sex parents both appear on birth certificates” say two leading LGBTQ attorneys—and I couldn’t agree more.
As a general rule of life, I try not to gloat. But yesterday’s arguments in the federal marriage equality case in Indiana and Wisconsin were so overwhelmingly on the side of same-sex couples and our children that I can’t help but feel a little smug. One judge was particularly scathing in his questions to marriage equality opponents.
Last month, I wrote, “It used to be that ‘Think of the children!’ was an argument against marriage equality. Now that’s an argument for it,” as ruling after ruling after ruling for marriage equality has heavily weighed the interests of children. A Reuters article yesterday covered the same theme.
Wisconsin-based spice company Penzeys is celebrating the state’s marriage equality win by sharing the stories of four of the plaintiff couples (several of whom have children), including “their lives, their cooking and their love.” Lest you think they’re just jumping on the bandwagon, they also reposted an article about gay dads Pat and Dennis and their four kids that ran in their newsletter way back in 2005. It lost them customers at the time — but they stuck with their beliefs.
The Family Equality Council wants your help in shaping what the organization will do in the future. I hope you’ll take a few minutes and take their 2014 survey to share your experiences and priorities with them. Then read on to hear about some of the films about lesbian and gay families that they’re involved in developing and promoting.
