Today, the coming out stories that we hear about are generally by youth or those in their 20s. However, there’s a certain part of the LGBT population that has a very unique experience when they come out — parents with kids. Though attitudes about the LGBT community have changed over time, a new documentary on […]
We love when big family brands show their love and support for diverse families. So we have to give a big shout out to Luvs for their newest commercial featuring two dads taking their son to get his first haircut. Like many parents, they’re nervous about their son’s safety, can’t seem to stop taking pictures, […]
On Monday, June 26th, the Supreme Court of the United States overturned a discriminatory ruling by the Supreme Court of Arkansas. The state ruling in Arkansas allowed for the state to refuse to list both individuals of married same-sex couples on the birth certificates of their children. Arkansas had allowed for husbands of new mothers […]
Rob and Reece Scheer live in Darnestown, Maryland, with their four adopted children. The dads had only intended to adopt one kid but found themselves with a big happy family. The Scheer’s explained: “We got a phone call for a brother and sister. We only wanted one child, but we thought, you know what? Let’s […]
Trystan Reese and Bill Chaplow are already parents to two children, Chaplow’s niece and nephew, Riley and Hailey, who they adopted after Chaplow’s sister had substance abuse problems. However, the couple wanted to try for a biological child, and so Reese, a trans father, became pregnant last year, only to suffer a miscarriage after 6 […]
Jonathon Bobbit-Miller and his husband, Blair Miller are dads to two sons, a three-year-old son and four-year-old son, both of whom were adopted. “I was always worried. I always thought, ‘I can’t be that or I can’t do that.’ I always thought, ‘There’s no way we can’t get married, I can’t have kids,’” Blair Miller […]
Jacquelin Carson and Carly Carson were legally married when they had their twins. However, when they tried to list themselves as parents on their children’s birth certificates in South Carolina, the state refused them that right. Thankfully the couple sued the state in court, claiming that the refusal by the state violated Obergefell v. Hodges, […]
By Henry Amador-Batten “You’re going to have to come with us sir” was a phrase I had grown accustomed to hearing each and every time I was boarding a flight. This was the late 1980’s and I travelled a lot on business. While mostly from Miami to New York, work often took me to […]
By: Amber Leventry Dana Alison Levy’s second young adult novel and follow-up to The Misadventures of the Family Fletcher did not disappoint. The Family Fletcher Takes Rock Island is what Levy calls a “love letter to summer, a book about brothers and ice cream trucks and growing up and seals and family”. It is certainly […]
By Henry Amador-Batten There has been much talk recently about “safe places,” especially after the massacre in Orlando. I touched on this topic in a newspaper column I write and the responses I received only served to feed my desire to dive in even deeper. Some people just do not understand how a night club […]
