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Reflections on 20 years of marriage
My spouse, Helen, and I recently celebrated our 20th anniversary. Only about six of those years have been as legal spouses — but that just gives us a chance to celebrate both our real anniversary a...
Apr 25, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Children of same-sex parents speak out for equality
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.S. Supreme Court. We parents should be proud —...
Mar 21, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Children’s book shows gay family within Jewish tradition
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. Yet with few exceptions, LGBT-inclusive picture books have l...
Feb 21, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Tales from Disney
My family and I just returned from a week at Disney World. Disney, at its worst, has represented crass commercialism, gender and racial stereotypes and saccharine melodies. At its best, however, it...
Jan 24, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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In the wake of tragedy
This was going to be a very different column. Then 20 children died in Connecticut. A gunman opened fire in Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., Dec. 14, leaving 20 children and seven a...
Dec 27, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Elmo accusation should not stop LGBT inclusion
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. First, it was a...
Nov 22, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Poetry and academia reveal LGBT lives
Stories can be told in many ways. Two new works — one poetic, one academic — take strikingly different approaches to telling the stories of LGBT people and families. The first is by Lesléa Newman,...
Sep 27, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Parents of transgender children share their stories
Parents of transgender children “are the best parents ever. They unconditionally love their children, even when they don’t completely understand what their child is going through,” writes mom Traci...
Aug 23, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
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Parenting beyond our genders
One of the most common arguments against same-sex parents is that “all children need a mother and a father.” But some LGBT parents are making the argument that being a mother or a father is not nec...
Jul 26, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Birthday Pride
My son is turning 9 soon, and it frightens me. Nine is perilously close to 10, first of the double digits, rubbing shoulders with that phantasm of every parent’s nightmares, puberty. Nine seems lik...
Jun 21, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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