This last weekend was Mother’s Day and it was fantastic for me and my wife. As a two-mom family, we decided years ago that we both deserved an entire day to ourselves in celebration of Mother’s Day. Some years, my day is on Saturday and some years it’s on Sunday. In addition to each of us […]
Cass and Ali Bird and their children Leo and Mae are an adorable two-mom family that appeared in Gap’s newest commercial in support of the campaign Every Mother Counts. They star alongside Liv Tyler and her children, as well as other models and actresses like Candice Swanepoel, Coco Rocha, Jurnee Smollett-Bell as well as their respective kids. Cass […]
By Rachel Garlinghouse Most moms are fans of Target, because everything about the place is pretty much magical — from the in-store Starbucks to the dollar section to the soy candles, organizational bins, and even (in my town, anyway) the wine. And now moms can get their glorious shop on even more with Target’s children’s brand, Cat […]
A lesbian couple in Mexico have shared a sad story of discrimination with Mexican news outlets recently — their children were denied access to three different schools on account of the mothers’ same-sex marriage. Martha and her partner decided to keep their names confidential to protect their family’s and children’s identities. The mothers filed a […]
Parents are wonderful, especially those who stand by their children who come out as LGBT, an action that not all parents across the world choose to take. But Frances Goldin did. Today, she’s 92 years old and she’s been holding the same sign at NYC Pride every single year for the last 30 years. It […]
By Alex Temblador For many families across the world, infertility is a huge struggle, and no one has more first-hand experience with it than the moms of The Next Family. In their newest video, Brandy Black and Susan Howard discuss how they started working toward creating their family. Though Brandy was always intent on […]
By Dana Click here to read part 1, and click here to read part two… The rewards of burying myself in my career were many. I truly loved what I did and I was good at it. Even as I got promoted and moved further away from the classroom, it remained, and is to this […]
By Miriam Genao Are you her nanny? Are you babysitting her? Who are her parents? Those are the questions I’ve been asked when out in public with my daughter, Jailani. Normally people start the conversation by complimenting my daughter and asking her age, and then they drop the much anticipated question,”Are you her nanny?” You […]
By Alex Temblador For Mother’s day, tech giant Apple published a video that features pictures and videos of iPhone users and their mothers in honor of Mother’s Day. It was then published on Apple’s different YouTube channels, which included the U.S. and other international countries. Melanie and Vanessa Roy, lesbian moms, were featured together with […]
In their newest YouTube video, Brandy and Susan of The Next Family discuss the anti-trans bathroom laws in the U.S. and the fear mongering and hate that has arisen from it. They discuss a few of the arguments that people have made for anti-trans bathroom laws and the tactics used by certain groups to promote […]
