Straight Parent, Gay Kid
Happy Father’s Day In Particular To Gay Dads
Happy Father’s Day, especially to Gay Dads for they have undergone crucibles of complicated laws, great expenses, and societal prejudices in their quest just to become gay parents. Heterosexual parents, on the other hand, can willy-nilly have children.Increasing AcceptanceDespite the rigors of surrogacy and adoption for same-sex couples, according to the Williams Institute, a sexual…
It’s Men’s Health Month & Week
June 15-21, 2015 is Men’s Health Week this year. What does that mean? It encourages early detection and treatment of disease among men and boys. Through the media, it gives awareness to health problems that are preventable. Health Issues Affect The Whole Family Young men, still in high school, have many of the same health…
“June Is Busting Out All Over”
Marriage, roses, graduations, and once again, Pride events and Parades in major U.S. cities, they all signal June. However, unlike the first three harbingers of summer, not all GLBT persons and their straight parents want to march or spectate at Gay Pride Parades, an annual event (http://www.gaypridecalendar.com). One Straight Parent Grouses A mother I interviewed…
Fun House Is Anything But…
Last week, I went to see the poignant musical “Fun Home,” based on cartoonist Alison Bechdel’s 2006 graphic memoir subtitled “A Family Tragicomic..” ( the book and lyrics are written by playwright Lisa Kron). As a finalist for the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, “Fun Home” is the “first mainstream musical about a young…
Which Age Group Resists Marriage Equality?
The latest Gallup poll in early May is certainly encouraging for the support for same-sex marriage. Sixty percent of respondents (5% higher than 2014) say they were in favor of gay marriage. Only two decades ago, 27% approved and 68% opposed gay marriage. By 2005, 37% supported same-sex marriage and five years later, 44% were…
Supreme Court Argues Gay Marriage Tomorrow
What’s At Stake on April 28th? The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the marriage cases from Michigan, Kentucky, Ohio and Tennessee. All of these states have marriage bans upheld by the federal appeals court in Cincinnati in November. That appeals court is the only one that has ruled in favor of the…
LGBTQ Alphabet Primer
About a year ago, April 1, 20014, I write a blog entitled http://www.straightparentgaykid.blogspot.com/2014/01/14/not-your-mother’s alphabet-anymore/. A year later, the gender spectrum still confuses readers. In fact, two days ago, a writer for Psychology Today put an ad on HARO (Help A Reporter Out) seeking a psychiatrist or psychologist to explain the difference between homosexuality and transgender…