Straight Parent, Gay Kid
World AIDS Day has almost Come and Gone, but HIV and AIDS Linger.
What Is World AIDS Day?Started in 1988, WORLD AIDS Day was the first global health day. We remember what was considered a plague (AIDS) back then and how it took the lives of 100,000 + New Yorkers alone. It’s a day to acknowledge our progress in HIV prevention and treatment around the world and renew…
Are You Transgenderally Aware?
This past week was annual Transgender Awareness Week, culminating today in Transgender Remembrance Day against transphobia. I have been thinking all week of a transgender man whom I interviewed for my co-authored book When Your Child Is Gay: What You Need To Know (Sterling, 2016). This young man had told me that if he hadn’t…
What’s With The Profiles This Week?
This week, I noticed that Facebook people had turned their profiles gray, black or white. I thought they might have done this for upcoming Halloween. Upon closer observation, I learned that those faces had turned color for National Asexual Awareness Week, celebrated October 23-29th this year. Listen, Believe and Respect Founded in 2010 by Sara…
Is Religion Getting In The Way of Coming Out?
Last week, I was invited to a Pride Club at a Catholic College in Westchester County. October is National Coming Out month and I was at the college to answer questions from club members about how to come out to parents. As a gay son’s straight mother who had written an advice book When Your…
What is Bisexual Awareness Week? Why Have It?
September 19-26 is Bisexual Awareness Week, first celebrated in 1999. Friday, September 23rd is Bisexuality Day started by three U.S. bisexual rights activists: Wendy Curry of New Hampshire and President of BiNet USA, an American National bisexual civil rights organization, Michael Page of Florida and Gigi Raven Wilbur of Texas. Recognized in the United States…
Guilty By Association
Gay Bachelor On Reality TV Show Fired From Job I never liked Reality TV much. Not my generation, I guess. However, when our son watched Jersey Shore, I would occasionally watch as I thought Snooki had a good sense of humor. I showed a passing interest in Heather Dubrow of The Real Housewives of Orange…
SEPTEMBER IS SUICIDE PREVENTION MONTH
What is It? Suicide Prevention Month helps promote resources and awareness around the issues of suicide prevention. National Suicide Day is September 10th and is intended for the public to reach out to those affected by suicide, raise awareness and connect individuals with suicide ideation (thinking about suicide and actually constructing a plan for it)…
BACK-TO-SCHOOL HOMOPHOBIA WITH NO RECESS
Gay and Lesbian youths face greater risk of violence, according to the first nationwide study administered by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This is the first time that the federal government’s biennial Youth Risk Behavior Survey investigated sexual identity. PARTICIPANTS IN THE SURVEY Some 15,600 students across the country, ages 14 to 17,…