It’s been 50 years since the United Kingdom decriminalized homosexuality, and in honor of that, London Pride partnered with Youtubers Trent and Luke to feature a conversation between a gay youth and a gay man that are 65 years in age apart. Percy is 78 years old, while Louis is 13 years old. The two […]
Ancestry.com released a Fourth of July campaign ad which recreated John Trumball’s famous “Declaration of Independence” painting with the descendants of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. However, unlike the original painting, Ancestry.com’s ad is a lot more ethnically and racially diverse. Ancestry.com found 29 direct descendants of the signers of the Declaration of […]
Actor Donal Logue is best known for his roles in Gotham, Law and Order: SVU, ER, and Sons of Anarchy. However, his roles in those TV shows are nothing compared to his role as a father to two children, one of which is his 16-year-old trans daughter, Jade. On Monday, Jade went missing and was […]
Rapper Jay-Z’s mother has come out as lesbian in a song on his newest album. Gloria Carter and Jay-Z discuss Gloria’s sexuality on the track “Smile” making it the first time that either have talked about it publicly. Jay-Z raps: “Mama had four kids, but she’s a lesbian / Had to pretend so long that […]
German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced earlier this week that she favored a vote on same-sex marriage, a surprising statement to some as Merkel had always stood for marriage between a man and a woman as she claimed it was in the “best interest” of children. Many in Germany were pressuring Merkel to change her stance […]
Suzan and Kimberly McLaughlin married in California in 2008. They then decided to start a family in 2010 via artificial insemination with an anonymous sperm donor. In 2010, Kimberly became pregnant. Before the baby was born, the couple moved to Tucson, Arizona, and created a parenting agreement that stated that they were equal parents to […]
With so few family-friendly TV shows committed to diversity, it was heartwarming to see Sesame Street support diverse families this Pride Month. On Friday, Sesame Street tweeted a Pride-inspired photo of a rainbow of Muppets and the message: “Sesame Street is proud to support families of all sizes, shapes, and colors.” Sesame Street has always […]
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 […]
Oregon has made history in the U.S. as becoming the first state to allow people who don’t identify as male or female to choose a third gender on their state IDs. Now Oregon citizens may choose “X” which stands for “not specified” as their gender. This selection will appear on state IDs like driver licenses […]
Molly Shannon may be best known as a hilarious actress whose career launched with a spot on SNL. These days, Shannon’s acting career has been influenced by something quite beautiful — her dad. At a Q & A session about Miles, “a movie about a gay teen’s fight to bridge the gender divide in a […]
