LesbianDad

The observant and widely blog-read will recognize none other than Sassa, of Accident of Hope fame, availing herself of the gravel pit. Today’s landmark court decision in favor of same-sex marriage was handed down smack dab in the middle of an inter-state lesbian parent blogger schmooze-fest. Auspicious, since Chicory got hitched here with […]

San Francisco Chronicle photo of filmmaker Ann Hershey by Liz Hafalia
Documentary filmmaker Annie Hershey’s long-awaited film about the life and work of writer-activist Tillie Olsen will be making its Bay Area debut tonight, on what would have been Olsen’s ninety-sixth birhtday. She died on New Year’s Day a year ago.

A Heart in Action […]

Special Cousin and Special Auntie dote on the lil’ peanut, while the lil’ monkey takes flight.
You just never know, is the thing.
Ever so many years ago I was a college freshman, worried on the one hand about living away from home in a big smelly student co-op, yet thrilled on the other by […]

Those in the know will recall that today’s National Coming Out Day, or NCOD for the AO (Acronym Oriented). Today, in the U.S. and abroad, LGBT people and their allies are encouraged to take another step out of the proverbial closet. It’s all relative, but the idea is, wherever you are in your […]

Says so, right here:
“I believe if two people want to commit to each other, God bless ‘em,” the syndicated advice columnist told The Associated Press. “That is the highest form of commitment, for heaven’s sake.”
The piece is worth a read, not just because of the refreshingly frank, no-nonsense sensibility of Abby (or rather her daughter […]

The image at right is a chilling one. Most people, if they can identify it as an iconic symbol of the rise of the Nazis, imagine that the books being burned are those of Jewish authors, or others considered enemies of the Third Reich. Many of the authors of the books were Jews. […]

I’ve been working something up in honor of Banned Books Week, which starts at the end of next week. But this news item was worth passing along as a not-so-savory appetizer.
From Worth The Trip (a fantastic kids & teens book blog that’s been gracing my Queer Parenting Resources links list for a coupla weeks), we […]