Part four of a six-part series of excerpts from “Confessions of a Lesbian Dad,” originally published in Confessions of the Other Mother: Non-biological Lesbian Moms Tell All (Ed. Harlyn Aizley. Boston: Beacon, 2006).
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Happy as a clam was I, when I went to my first LGBT Pride [...]

Part three of a six-part series of excerpts from “Confessions of a Lesbian Dad,” originally published in Confessions of the Other Mother: Non-biological Lesbian Moms Tell All (Ed. Harlyn Aizley. Boston: Beacon, 2006).
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I confess: coming up with the name “Baba” for my kind of parent — [...]

Part two of a six-part series of excerpts from “Confessions of a Lesbian Dad,” originally published in Confessions of the Other Mother: Non-biological Lesbian Moms Tell All (Ed. Harlyn Aizley. Boston: Beacon, 2006).
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A few months after I outed myself as a butchy lesbian not-mom at a [...]

Part one of a six-part series of excerpts from “Confessions of a Lesbian Dad,” originally published in Confessions of the Other Mother: Non-biological Lesbian Moms Tell All (Ed. Harlyn Aizley. Boston: Beacon, 2006).

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I didn’t always know I would be a lesbian dad. Sure, I always knew I [...]

At left: Glitter glam dress lights up the couch, Dorrington, CA.
Last week when LD was OWON (Offline WithOut Notice), I had written most of a draft piece about the Christmas holiday. In it I wrote about how when I was young, the holiday’s primary meaning stemmed from the repetition of traditional songs, and decorations, [...]

Much afoot about the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, or ENDA. I’m too slow-moving a craft to do much justice to breaking news (more cruise ship than speedboat), but I definitely want to alert readers not already more abreast than me to what’s up with this bill.
The ENDA is a proposed U.S. federal [...]

[Non-female reader alert! The word "menstruation" appears no fewer than four times below! You've been warned, brother! Skip this now, if you're a wuss, or read on, if you dare!]
Extree, extree: Baba has The Change o’ Life! It’s the first thing I have ever done earlier than expected.
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The beloved has a spate of evening rehearsals during the upcoming month or so, and I’ve called in the reinforcements, which for the most part consists of a phalanx of chums I’ve seen far too little of since we got with child #2. It’s not like I couldn’t hack it, managing the dinner/bath/bedtime routine [...]