It is a truism in the LGBT community to say that we need LGBT-inclusive children’s books so our kids see images of families like theirs.

My family and I just returned from a week at Disney World.

This was going to be a very different column.

I’ve been worried ever since I heard the allegation that Kevin Clash, the puppeteer behind “Sesame Street’s” Elmo, had had a relationship with a 16-year-old minor when Clash was 45.

My third-grade son has been enjoying biographies, learning things even I didn’t know about Thomas Edison and Benjamin Franklin.

“Invisible Families: Gay Identities, Relationships and Motherhood Among Black Women,” by UCLA sociologist Mignon Moore, is arguably the most groundbreaking work on LGBT parenting published in recent years.

This is a time of love and loss for me, marked by two tragic events.

I’d only ever done gay cruising before.

Take several-hundred LGBT families from around the country — moms, dads, children young and old and assorted other relatives — add sun, sand, movies and a bonfire, and you’ve only just begun to scratch the surface of what Family Week in Provincetown, Mass.

ABC News’ “What Would You Do?” series recently set up several actors in a café near Dallas to test patrons’ responses to harassment of same-sex parents and their children.