By Alex Temblador It’s almost 2017 — can you believe it? With the new year comes thoughts of resolutions for 2017. How can we better ourselves? What is our goals for 2017? What do we want to accomplish that we didn’t do in 2016? Well, for all the modern parents out there who are running around […]
By Mike Berry Originally published on Babble “Are there heroes in real life daddy?” My son asked this question, peering up at me with big blue eyes as we sat nestled next to one another on our sofa watching The Dark Knight Rises a few days ago. “You mean like Batman?” I asked. “Uh huh!” […]
Yes, today may be Thanksgiving, but Hershey’s is already focusing on the winter holidays with their newest commercial which features a gay couple. In the video, Josh and Matt Noble explain how they moved Josh’s mother to New York, following the death of his father, so she could be closer to them. The couple and […]
By Alex Temblador No mother wants their child to fear the future, but that’s exactly what happened with Donna* of Illinois and her seven-year-old biracial son Tyson. Tyson came up to his mother earlier this year in March and asked her, “Who are you going to vote for, Hillary or the guy who wants segregation?” […]
Yesterday, Old Navy featured an advertisement on Twitter that offered customers 30% in honor of their “Thank You Event.” However, many customers retweeted and responded to the ad with hateful, racist remarks — because the ad featured a photo of a multiracial family. Many of the responses were extremely hateful, exhibiting how miscegenation – the dating […]
By Alex Temblador I recently wrote an article for The Next Family called, “Family-Friendly Films That Feature Adoption and Foster Care,” that shared wonderful family films with adoption or foster care story lines. My reasoning behind doing so was because every family deserves a chance to see similar families like theirs represented in various forms […]
By Geri Gale/ The Seattle Lesbian I am a poet and have been told that people take my work out like they would a snifter of Grand Marnier and sip it because it’s so rich. But everything changed on December 6, 2012, when I was diagnosed with breast cancer – the same day Seattle […]
By Alex Temblador We recently ran an article called, “Men Having Babies: Financial Assistance for Gay Men, that produced an overwhelming response: where can all LGBT and modern families find financial resources, grants, and aid to use toward creating a family? GoFundMe campaigns are quite popular these days when it comes to financing adoptions, fertility treatments, […]
By Alex Temblador Within the last week, there have been some major things going on in the children’s book world, especially children’s books that feature modern families. As you might have guessed, this major news had something to do with the Pope, disabled super heroes, and a transgender children’s book. How, you may ask? Since […]
