With Donald Trump’s election, the LGBTQ+ community is again in crisis mode and my only way forward is to fight. The Equality March for Unity and Pride takes place this Sunday, June 10, in Washington D.C. There will also be a host of local marches around the country. According to the organizers, the goal of […]
Are people who support the rigid distinctions at these events worried that their child might suddenly “turn gay” upon seeing my family accepted at a school event? A few years ago I made a (mostly joking) Facebook post about the troubles of my son having two mamas on Mother’s Day. Who should get the single […]
As a queer parent with a donor-conceived child, the market of books with families that look like mine is awfully small. When I found a copy of Horton Hatches the Egg at the library with my daughter, I remembered it vaguely as a cute story from my childhood about a bird and an elephant. I […]
I think we do children and parents a disservice by assuming that if anyone stays home, it must be the person who gave birth. Sometimes people ask my partner and me how we decided which of us would give birth to our daughter. For some couples with two uteruses between them, that might be a […]
Families that don’t fit the traditional definitions should be able to manage an introduction without it feeling like a Three Stooges episode. The new millennium has been transformative for LGBTQ couples in many ways. When I came out as a lesbian in the mid-90s, I believed that I was destined to live life on the fringes. […]
