Straight Parent, Gay Kid
Holiday No-Nos for Straight Parents
Easter/Passover is a wonderful family holiday. Health experts advise that while you’re gathered around for carrots, lamb/ham, amid the tulips and colored eggs, that you ask your relatives about their inherited diseases so you can properly fill out those long medical questionnaires and know what to look out for with your own health. Did Uncle…
Primer for Straight Parents: Not Your Mother’s Dictionary of Terms!
Labels Explained: Saturday night, my husband and I watched “Dallas Buyer’s Club”(he for the first time, I for the second). When actor Jared Leto makes his first appearance in the movie, my husband says “Rayon’s a transsexual, isn’t he? “ I say “Yep, he’s a transgender.” Hubby remarks “isn’t that the same thing?” This had…
Limbo Marriages
Glenna DeJong, 53, and Marsha Caspar, 51, from Lansing, Michigan have been together for twenty-seven years. They, the first gay couple in Michigan, were married last week, but now found their marriage on hold as of March 22nd because of the federal appeals court order that prevents same-sex couples from getting married. The appeals court…
“One Bad Apple Doesn’t Spoil The Whole Bunch”
Last week, I wrote about Mark Regnerus’s negative flawed study of children growing up in same-sex households. Even the Sociology Department at the University of Texas (Austin) where Regnerus works has distanced itself from Regnerus’s findings that incorporated loose definitions of “lesbian mothers” and “gay fathers.” But straight parents, take heart. Your GLBTQ children will…
Mark Regnerus, Again
The U. Texas Sociologist Testifies in Michigan Against Gay Marriage & Adoption Why is the author of a disputed gay parenting study from 2012 been chosen as an expert at a trial of two lesbian nurses who want to adopt special needs children in a state that doesn’t allow gay marriage or joint adoption of…
Unfinished Business
Chelsea Clinton was wise when she said that LGBT rights are the unfinished business of the 21stCentury. Attorney General Eric Holder, Jr. said “fighting for gay and lesbian rights is one of “the defining civil rights challenges of our times.” LGBT rights are what civil rights for blacks were over fifty years ago. Rapidly Growing…
Take Care of Those In Your Heart
February is National Heart Month. Most magazine articles and health columns stress the physical aspects of a healthy heart: the alarming statistics of heart attacks in the U.S., heart attack signs and how you can prevent them with a Mediterranean diet rich in plant-based foods. Many have self-quizzes designed to snare you into reading the pieces….
What Do Punxsutawney Phil, GLBT Kids & Their Straight Parents Have in Common?
Today is February 2nd, Groundhog Day. People gathered this morning at Gobbler’s Knob, a wooded knoll just outside of Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, 65 miles NorthEast of Pittsburgh. Like the ancient Greeks, the audience is looking to a sorcerer to predict an important event. This sorcerer has been predicting early spring or a long winter since 1887. …