It was the Friday before Mother's Day. I had published a blog post on the nature of Mother's Day and the celebration of all who feel motherly love running through their souls. I was at work, finishing up a high-tech piece at my desk, when my work associate,...

Recently, author Jennifer Finney Boylan wrote of her experience as a transgender woman, "After all these years, my own identity has wound up less altered than I had expected. It should not have been a surprise, perhaps, but the most shocking revelation after 10 years in the female...

I have a confession to make: As much as I loathe clichés and generalizations, there is one that I live up to with incredible gusto. I typify the gay guy who doesn't do sports. Not even a little bit.

From the pain of never getting picked for teams in P.E....

Last week the Boy Scouts of America submitted a proposal to its membership to allow gay scouts but continue its willful discrimination against gay and lesbian scout leaders. While I am glad that they have evolved somewhat, as a gay dad, my reaction to them is still one...

Jokes are supposed to be funny. They always start with a setup and then build to a crescendo where the plot twists and the listener bursts out laughing. Last week a "joke" went viral, but no one was left laughing.

The "joke" was a piece titled "PARENTS PUT...

My ten year old son Jesse had big plans Easter morning. He had set his alarm for 6 am. His desire to rise early was not to go searching for the Easter basket the mystical bunny was likely to have left him, it was to make French toast...

A few months ago, I had pondered on what the now-retired Pope Benedict might observe and learn on a trip with my family to Disneyland. He had just made some rude and inaccurate observations about families like mine, and I felt the reality, as demonstrated by tens of...

I relate to the family of Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) on many levels. Like Will Portman, I am also the son of a staunch Republican dad to whom I came out. My dad is older than Sen. Portman, and he adheres to the viewpoints of Bill O'Reilly, Rush...

Fascinating amicus briefs were flying last week. The issue of same-sex marriage was discussed more intelligently than ever before. In-depth thought and solid information, including an outstanding synopsis by the American Sociological Association, appeared as amicus briefs filed with the U.S. Supreme Court. One of these...

One thing that I have learned as a parent of two 10-year-old boys is that when a child says he wants one thing, he may be secretly hoping that he doesn't get it. His voice may quiver as he asks for it, while his eyes may say, "Get me out...

Some of those fighting marriage equality these days want you to believe that there is only one right way to create a "real" family: by means of unprotected, unplanned, procreative sex -- or, as Nan Hunter calls it, "accidental procreation," which then warrants over 1,000 legal...

In these modern times, it is funny how we forge interesting and new kinds of relationships through media, social and otherwise. We gain unique attachments to people we have never met, some of whom we interact with on Twitter or Facebook, and some of whom we have never interacted with...

Some of us are afraid to exhale. Same-sex marriage is before the Supreme Court.

Just as the election had the "swing-state factor," these two cases have a swing vote: Justice Anthony Kennedy. Justice Kennedy was nominated to the Supreme Court by President Ronald Reagan but has been on the progressive...

I always figured there were certain hateful statements that my sons would make, especially ones that say I am inadequate. Such statements would come out in the future, during some angsty teenage scrap as I'm laying down the law and they're going for my jugular. My sister told me once,...

During the last few weeks of the winter holidays, Pope Benedict VXI and several of his delegates, including Illinois Cardinal Francis George and the United Kingdom's Archbishop Vincent Nichols, delivered lumps of coal to the world's LGBTQ communities. It was gift giving Mr.-Grinch- or unrepentant-Ebeneezer-Scrooge-style.

Like the "Three Anti-gay Kings,"...

It was several weeks ago when it happened. The word "homophobia" was casually in play within American conversation, playing its part, when... yank! Out of nowhere, timeout was called. The word was out of the game. No flags on the field, no deliberation with the coach or team owner. The...

How did I get into this predicament? How did I not see this coming? I mean... really.

My sons are both 10. Our family tradition follows that of many others: A jolly old man with reindeer arrives mysteriously to our house late Christmas Eve and leaves wonderful gifts for them...

Often the love between gay men is not romantic or sexual but the love of brothers. I have had that many times, and in one case in particular, it was with a man I consider my twin brother.

Mark was not my biological twin but my spiritual and emotional twin....

Dan Pearce, a popular blogger on a site called Single Dad Laughing, holds a special place in the my heart. I would not be writing here if it were not for him. Over a year ago Dan wrote a blog post called "I'm Christian Unless You're...

Probably one of the most mind-numbingly obtuse excuses that anti-marriage-equality advocates offer for opposing same-sex couples getting married is that same-sex couples "can't procreate naturally." They say that as if it were a bad thing. They say it as if we were deeply afraid that our population was dwindling and...