JCPenney has put out another gorgeous ad featuring a same-sex couple, this time two dads and their two kids in honor of Father's Day.
Charlotte Robinson | Posted 05.25.2012
Dr. Samuel Pang is the Medical Director of the Reproductive Science Center of New England (RSC), a pioneer in helping lesbians and gay men become parents. I talked with Dr. Pang about these procedures and issues facing our LGBT community.
Dan Bucatinsky | Posted 05.25.2012
Why did I have to buy the umbrella and grocery shop and take Eliza all at the same time? Why did I agree to host a stupid barbecue? Why did I agree to do all the prep and planning? Why did I agree to have kids? I've definitely bitten off more than I can chew.
David Valdes Greenwood | Posted 05.23.2012
Whatever it is that keeps our daughter's mother at a distance, she made our family. And that's the one thing my child and all her parents know for sure.
Dan Bucatinsky | Posted 05.12.2012
This Mother's Day? I'm going to let the kids celebrate their two dads and the "mommyness" each of us has within. And they can wear whatever the hell they want to wear and do any dance they feel like doing, because that's the kind of mom I had as a kid -- and the kind of "mom" I'd like to be!
William Lucas Walker | Posted 04.24.2012
To my children this is and always will be Mimi and Pop's House. To me -- regardless of my current address -- it's home, the place I feel safest. Returning is one of my great pleasures in life.
The Didactic Pirate | Posted 04.13.2012
One of the last people I came out to was my 10-year-old daughter, about nine months into the process. Strange that the final person to hear the news was one of the people who needed to know the most.
William Lucas Walker | Posted 05.08.2012
Not too long ago, our little clan took a road trip from Los Angeles to Portland, Ore. I predict in the end it won't be gay marriage that brings about the destruction of the American family. It will be the road trip.
Gary J. Gates | Posted 04.17.2012
Modern Family highlights a common contemporary media image of gay parenting: wealthy, urban, white gay men raising an adopted child. However, U.S. Census Bureau data suggest that same-sex couples raising children are substantially more diverse.
Jennifer Chrisler | Posted 04.16.2012
It's hard to remember and hard to imagine, frankly, a time when just the simple fact of being gay or lesbian meant that you could have no relationship with your children. The courts automatically presumed you were an unfit parent.
William Lucas Walker | Posted 04.11.2012
Our son was three years old when Prop 8 passed, too young to understand what was going on but just the right age to articulate his thoughts about those "Yes on 8" signs. They were, he announced, "the color of pee-pee." On some level, he got what was happening to his family.
Patrick Wallace | Posted 04.02.2012
In late 2011, Burnz and Steve wrote a beautiful letter to their daughter Olivia on aNoteToMyKid.com, expressing their unconditional love for their number-one gal.
Amelia | Posted 03.19.2012
After talking with Sean awhile, the differences of gender, location, and financial status just weren't that big a deal. We are families founded in love and built with work and determination. And we both know all those people shrieking "think of the children!" are full of it.
Patrick Wallace | Posted 03.19.2012
Zac's note tells the story of his tumultuous upbringing, the anger and destructive behavior that resulted from the negative experiences he endured as a child, and, ultimately, the appreciation and love he has for his two dads.
Patrick Wallace | Posted 03.12.2012
Peter Depp | Posted 02.14.2012
Fascinating, isn't it, that being referred to as a "gay dad" has the ability to enhance the connection I have with other parents, or the ability to completely disregard my parenting skills based on the false ideology that homosexuality is wrong.
David Valdes Greenwood | Posted 02.09.2012
We found ourselves asking a question we'd never before considered. Which feels worse: When your child deals with a Mean Girl or when your child is the Mean Girl?
David Valdes Greenwood | Posted 10.31.2011
As the only two-dad family in an elementary school with almost 500 kids, we become the default face of same-sex parenting for some of the children and their caregivers. And that's OK -- when we filled out paperwork to adopt six years ago, we literally signed up for this.
Red Room | Posted 10.04.2011
It's no skin off my nose if someone sees the ring on my finger and asks me about the wife they envision me having. But it's a drag for a six year-old to feel like she has to answer questions about her family unit for strangers.
Carlos A. Ball | Posted 11.17.2011
We need to focus on what it means to mother and to father a child, rather than on the sex of the parent who happens to be doing the mothering or fathering.
Jenny Block | Posted 05.30.2012