Results for: queer parenting
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Badass Black Queer Women Paved the Way for the Mizzou Movement
A rundown of everything that happened at the University of Missouri and the #ConcernedStudent1950 movement, the Mississippi Supreme Court issues its first gay divorce, the Nebraska Health and Human Services will list the names of same-sex spouses on birth certificates and more news!
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State of the Struggle: First Come LGBT Legal Protections, Then Comes Marriage
The new Momentum Report from the Movement Advancement Project proves that gay marriage is just the tip of the iceberg. How is the LGBT community doing when it comes to everything else?
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Trail Life USA Tries to Blaze A New Trail For Anti-Gay Scouting
Luckily there are other scouting alternatives for your kids!
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Turning the Tide: How Activism to Protect Queer Students and Communities Works
How activists in Louisiana use everything from direct action to meetings with senators to try to pass laws that would protect queer and trans* students from bullying, queer and trans* employees from discrimination, and more. This is how your legal progress sausage is made.
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Damnit France, Why Can’t You Be More Like the Netherlands?
Debates, protests and ridiculous videos over same-sex marriage aren’t limited to this side of the Atlantic.
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Big Companies Wanna Make Big Change For GLBT Youth, Ellen’s Mom Is Involved
Johnson & Johnson, Walgreens, and PFLAG are teaming up to help stop bullying against LGBT youth.
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Bevan Dufty Reminds Us Gay Candidates Have Kids Too
This gay man thinks that watching him ride the train with his daughter will make you more likely to vote for him.
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Don’t Mess With a Lesbian Mom in Distress
The Mayor of Troy is brilliantly called out for her homophobia and the IRS is making life harder for some lesbian couples. Also some lesbian mom stuff is happening in Australia.
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Illinois Catholic Charities Drop Gay Adoption and Foster Care Lawsuit Over Civil Unions
Catholic Charities Illinois called off their legal fight to continue providing foster care and adoption services for heterosexual couples only. They’d rather just provide adoption services for no one.
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For The Sake of the Children: Why America Needs to Realize Gay Families Are Real
“Public discussion about American families often assumes the nation is largely made up of married heterosexual couples raising their biological children. Yet less than a quarter of all U.S. households fall into this category”
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DADT Repeal, DOMA, and Gray Areas: It’s Still Not Easy Being Gay
This is what not-quite-equal looks like.
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The Tragic But Ultimately Inspiring True Story of Gay Homeless Teen Brian Dixon
When homeless gay teens need a place to turn, it seems that real and immediate support is more likely to come from local networks, despite the government’s best intentions.
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Christine O’Donnell Reminds Us That Gay Family Members Do Not a Homo-Friendly Politician Make
Did you hear the one about the [homophobic politician] and their gay [daughter/sister/brother/friend]? So did we, and you know, it’s really not funny anymore.
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You’re Free To Travel While Transgender, Protected From Queer Partner Violence
The State and Justice Departments are teaming up to give you kind of a nice Friday – it should now be a lot easier for trans people to get accurate passports, and new guidelines on partner violence are also going to apply to queer relationships. Also, gay Republicans at LA Pride, angry gay Bostonians, the superstar teen sailor is missing, Exodus International wants you to know it’s sorry but you’re still going to hell, and a Jewish/Arab lesbian feminist has some thoughts to share.
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Anti-Gay CA Senator Ashburn Walks Out of Gay Bar, Gets DUI, COMES OUT
The lawsuit for those injured in the Atlanta Eagle bar raid needs your help, Roy Ashburn is a lying hypocrite, General Petraeus has worked with queers in the past and hasn’t been raped by a man yet, the VA Attorney General wants to take away college protections, Minnesotans are giving it their all for Uganda, and Roseanne wants to save the gay Mormon kids.
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Catholic Church Lets Sex Abusers Guide Children, But Not Gay Parents?
A new round of sex scandals rock the church while the church fights to keep its anti-gay adoption policies and prevent the child of gays from attending its pre-school. Jon Stewart & “Deliver Us From Evil” report. Also; the trouble with the media’s take on the troubles of black women, clinical trials leave out glbts, ‘zines, is twitter a girl, gearing up for dinah shore weekend & a new LGBT Center in Long Beach, New York.