Straight Parent, Gay Kid
It’s National Transgender Awareness Week, Nov. 13-17
Did you know that:· The F.B.I. released hate crime statistics for 2016 and highlighted the ongoing epidemic of anti-transgender violence in the U.S. · In 2016, advocates tracked 23 deaths of transgender people in the United States. · One in every 137 teenagers in the United States identifies as transgender. In our schools, transgender students…
November is National Adoption Month
I have two adopted children: a son, born in 1983, and a daughter, born in 1988. Both were closed adoptions of infants through a well-known adoption agency in Manhattan. I have little medical information about the birthparents from my son’s adoption and precious little from my daughter’s adoption. I’m not sure it would have been…
Why Do We Have National Coming Out Day?
National Coming Out Day is an annual LGBTQ Awareness Day on October 11. It actually started on 1987 with the National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights. Observed in the U.S. and Switzerland as well as seven other countries, you may see participants wearing pink triangles or carrying rainbow flags. Did you know…
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…
Tips 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…
Joey Slivinski & Thomas Swartz “Most likely to Succeed” (in my book anyway)
In most high schools across America, yearbooks contain quotes under seniors’ pictures. You’re familiar with the common ones: “The only way to have a friend is to be one,” or “She walks in beauty as the night.” Imagine the shock when Seniors Joey Slivinski and Thomas Swartz opened their yearbooks to find just their photos,…
Sex Ed. From Teen Vogue More Inclusive Than Schools’ Versions
On July 7th, the popular Teen Vogue, aimed at 12-17 year-olds, published an online article “Anal Sex: What You Need to Know/How To Do It The Right Way that has Conservative right-wingers working themselves into a lather. Some parents have called to cancel their children’s subscriptions to the publication and started a backlash on social…