Archive for September 2017
How To Be An Ally At Home
This week (September 25-29) K-12 students will celebrate Ally Week in schools across the United States. Sponsored by GLSEN.org, (Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network) students will have activities that will display their support for their LGBT friends. An LGBT child’s home should be his haven. How does a straight parent make it so all the…
Read MoreTips for Straight Parents of LGBT Kids during Bisexual Awareness Week
Bisexual Awareness Week was this past week and ends today, September 24, 2017. Yesterday was National Bisexual Day. This day and week celebrates bisexuals who make up more than 50% of the LGBT community. There were teach-ins, poetry readings, concerts, festivals, parties and picnics calling attention to the bisexual community, their friends and supporters to…
Read MoreA Straight Mother Thanks Edie Windsor
When our gay son was in his twenties, before President Obama’s evolvement of “sacred” civil marriage unions and President Clinton’s signature on the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), he announced at dinner “it’s not fair that my straight sister can get married, and I can’t!” He was right. I often wondered if he would be…
Read MoreWhen The School Personnel Are The Bullies
What’s A Parent To Do? Schools must do all it can to help stop and prevent bullying it knows or should have known was happening in their district. Otherwise, the school can become legally responsible if it has not done anything to prevent or stop this offensive behavior. Last week’s blog concerned a Missouri principal…
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