Rachel Hoff
How to Find a Gay-Friendly Therapist
You’re worried. Your gay child seems more than moody. Or your lesbian daughter seems more withdrawn and her weight is fluctuating. Your LGBT child is dreading school– another year of…
Tolerance Begins At Home
Homelessness A Big Problem For LGBTQ Kids Next time you’re in a big city like New York and you see kids as young as 12 living on the street, in…
The Bird Cage Still Relevant, 8 Years Later
Last week, I watched the hilarious “The Bird Cage” for the umpteenth time. Based on the play, “La Cage Aux Folles,” it’s a screwball comedy of gay characters trying to…
Testing The Undereducated
CDC’s Recent Sexual Orientation Survey Has Flaws In the July 22 article in The New York Times entitled “Questions of Orientation,” http://New York Times/7/22/14/Questions of Orientation, Jan Hoffman writes about…
Introducing Your Gay Partner To Your Straight Parents?
When Is A Good Time? After a long, cold winter, it’s finally summer. Time for long weekends or a week’s or two’s vacation at the beach with friends or the…
National Blame Someone Else Day, July 13, 2014
Don’t We Blame More Often? Human nature seems to dictate that it is much easier to blame someone else than accept responsibility for your actions that may thwart or disappoint…
National Forgiveness Day – Not With a Bang but a Whimper
I’m sure most of you did not know that June 26, 2014 was Forgiveness Day. It wasn’t recorded on your Smartphone, discussed in church or advertised as a Hallmark moment.…
Another Bride, Another June
Not Automatic If You’re Lesbian The well-known song written by Kahn and Donaldson “Another bride/Another June/Another sunny honeymoon/Another season, Another reason/for makin’ whoopee” is a reality for heterosexuals. But for…
The Little Stamp With The L-A-R-G-E Message
Harvey Milk Stamp Creates Controversy How many Harvey Milk stamps have been “returned to sender?” Since the U.S. Postal Office has issued the stamp on May 22nd, the date of…
Gay Pride Month, Marching Optional
President Obama has declared June as Gay Pride month. Events are planned across the United States, from San Francisco to New York and all states in between, to celebrate the…
We Don’t Need to Know Everything About a Celebrity!
Theatre critic Robert Hofler’s critique of Lincoln Center’s Winter 2014 issue’s lack of mention of playwright Moss Hart’s supposed homosexuality or bisexuality can be read in The Advocate.com’s “Op-Ed: Moss…
Unsung Heroes
This Memorial Day, let us be mindful of not only the WWII and Korean veterans who fought in so-called “acceptable” wars, but also those of the unpopular wars that followed. …
Are Your LGBT Children Mentally Healthy?
May is Mental Health Awareness Month As a parent, no one knows your kid better than you. You see him/her daily so it’s easy to notice personality or physical changes.…