Straight Parent, Gay Kid
Shhhh! It’s GLSEN’S Annual Day of Silence
April 19th is National Day of SilenceWhat is The Day of Silence?The National Day of Silence is a day of action in which students in the U.S. vow to take a form of silence to call attention to the silencing effect of anti-LGBT bullying and harassment in schools. Founded in 1996 at the University of…
Tyson Bowers, III, you’ve gone too far this Time!
Re: Facebook story: “Parents Put 16 Year Old Daughter Up for Adoption After Learning She is Gay” There’s a new story circulating via Facebook claiming that a 16 year-old girl named April Chadwell was placed for adoption by her parents because she is gay. The story claims the family is in “Southern Carolina” and decided to…
My So-Called Full Milk Marriage
At age 27, I, and my husband, soon to be thirty, wed. We, knowing of my infertility, walked down the aisle anyway because we wanted to “love, honor, and obey.” Years later, eight to be exact, we adopted a baby boy from a well-known adoption agency in New York City. Five years later, we adopted an…
Waiting in Line For the Gay Revolution
Supreme Court Hears Arguments for GLBT Civil Rights 3-26-27 It looked like a Rock Concert. People staying in line since Sunday to get free tickets today to one of the thirty seats in the public section.where visitors can watch for three to five minutes each before being rotated out. There were rallies with rainbow sherbet…
God Save The Queen!
Queen Elizabeth Upsets Gay Activists With New “Magna Carter” Charter I don’t have a lot in common with Queen Elizabeth except we both wear sensible shoes, were raised in the Anglican Church (Episcopal), and come from English stock. I admire her resiliency in a family rife with divorce, affairs, commoners (gasp!) and a grandson who…
DOMA, Prop 8, and Thou
In just a few weeks, March 26th and March 27th respectively, , the Supreme Court will consider two major cases involving same-sex marriage: one addressing federal DOMA (Defense of Marriage Act), that restricts the federal government from recognizing same-sex unions performed in those states where they are legal, and the other case Proposition 8” in…
Labels, Schmabels
I am venting today about the need of public figures to come out. Do we care that Chief Executive Officer of Sony Music Entertainment, Clive Davis, came out as bisexual in his recent memoir The Soundtrack of My Life? He told Cynthia McFadden on ABC’s “Nightline” that he, 80, twice divorced, had sex with a…
Boy Scouts of America’s Half-Ass Solution
BSA Decision on Gay Ban Postponed Until May The Boy Scouts of America have faced turmoil in the past six months. After the Scouts in June had announced their intent to keep the gay ban in place, corporate companies including Merck & Co. and Intel Corporation pulled funding. Angry former scouts in disgust mailed their…
This Is Not a Shaggy Dog Story
This Is Not a Shaggy Dog Story Yesterday, I read in Huffpost Gay Voices about a Tennessee dog owner who wanted to euthanize his dog because he suspected the dog was gay. (Just because a male dog mounts another one, does not mean he’s homosexual, it could be a matter of dominance. Anyhow, homosexual behavior…
Two January Speeches by Heads of State Couldn’t be More Different
Pope Benedict XVI Vs. President Barack Obama The Pope Has Not Evolved In his global message for World Day of Peace, on January 1, 2013, His Holiness condemned same-sex marriage “ a serious harm to justice and peace.” The pope delineated his views that the cause of preserving the institution of marriage should be supported…