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Reflections on five years of parenting and progress
This column marks five years of Mombian columns for me. Looking back, it’s been a time of tremendous change for LGBT families — and for me personally. I’ve learned a lot over these years, both as a...
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The year’s best moments in LGBT parenting
Each year our children grow, and each year we make a little more progress toward equality for our families. Here are 10 of the best moments of 2011 that helped raise visibility and advance equality...
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Where are the LGBT biographies for kids?
My third-grade son has been enjoying biographies, learning things even I didn’t know about Thomas Edison and Benjamin Franklin. So when I read that Frank Kameny, one of the founding fathers of the ...
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‘Invisible’ black lesbian families made visible
“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 recen...
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Gifts of loss, life and love
This is a time of love and loss for me, marked by two tragic events. The first was the World Trade Center disaster of Sept. 11, 2001. For most of 2001, I worked on the top floor of Two World Financ...
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My very gay straight cruise
I’d only ever done gay cruising before. No, not that kind of cruising — I mean the floating around on a big ship kind. My in-laws recently took my spouse, our son and me, plus my spouse’s two sibli...
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Family Week offers LGBT families fun and friendship
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 scr...
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Interacting with LGBT parents: 10 do’s and don’ts
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. An actor playing a homoph...
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Waffles and roller coasters: Mother’s Day reflections
When I asked my 7-year-old son what he thought I should write in my parenting column about Mother’s Day, he said, “Tell them that having two moms is just like having two people of any kind take car...
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Double the pregnancies, double the fun
Pregnancy is tough enough when one person in a couple is carrying a child. When both are, though — a uniquely lesbian possibility — life can get especially complicated. Sarah Kate Ellis and Kristen...
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