My spouse, Helen, and I recently celebrated our 20th anniversary.

Children and adults with same-sex parents have been in the headlines lately for making their voices heard about marriage equality all the way to the U.

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.